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Council evictions begin
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What do you reckon they should do to that left handed para with a nice taste in musical instruments?
AQuite happy for the police to be hated. They care paid to control crime, not to be liked. If a few more arms, legs and skulls were broken earlier on, rubber bullets used and night curfews declared, i very much doubt the amount of damage caused would have been as much.You think the way to stop it happening again is to take thousands of ordinary people who were having a laugh and fill them with angry seething resentment and bitterness? Which planet is this on?
We have a broken society. We need to fix it, not get mad with it and smash it with a sledgehammer.
When we've done chucking people out of their homes over a pair of shorts, the police still have to police these communities. Do they think policing gets easier when everybody hates them?
The benefits system is allowing the underclass to breed. Feral youths are not going to help this country. Decent people with decent education and morals will. If you dont want to help society blossom, why should society help you?0 -
You're missing the point. Policing is harder, more expensive, and less successful when it doesn't have public cooperation.Quite happy for the police to be hated. They care paid to control crime, not to be liked.
They always breed. When they couldn't afford the babies they had, they used to throw them in the Thames.The benefits system is allowing the underclass to breed.
Two things amaze. Most people have nothing constructive, they just want the impossible - more policing without more police, more prisoners without more prisons, and people should not be what they are, they should be different, just like that.
And the wider the gap grows between the haves and the have-nots, the greedier the haves get."It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0 -
Send them somewhere awful, Scotland etc.0
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Well I sometimes wonder why we don't encourage people to emigrate to Ireland. No housing shortage there.Send them somewhere awful, Scotland etc."It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0 -
Loughton_Monkey wrote: »So 4 deaths, untold £millions in Property Fire Damage, £millions of goods looted..... was just "ordinary people having a laugh"?
I don't think I've ever heard of such a 'wet' analysis. To talk about planets, when clearly you come from another galaxy!
Clearly a sandwich sort of a picnic.
Burning down houses and having old ladies waking up with looters in their bedrooms is freaking hilarious.0 -
nightwatchman wrote: »I am happy with vengence.
Justice has gone out of the window already.....
When was the last time that justice was delivered anyway?
Did Mohammed Ibrahim receivedany “justice” for mowing 12 year old Amy Huston and let her die wile he was driving disqualified and without insurance?
Ahh yes he get 4 months by Blacburn magistrates.
Ahh… by the way justice system has no yet manage to deport him and we still pay for his “benefits” because if we don’t we will violate his human rights init?
Do me a favour…….
Ahh yes, I think that identifies what is so wrong about this current sorry saga
'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
I think the people who are pleading guilty with the their legal council having minimum time to advise them and being put before 'hang them and flog them' magistrates (in the middle of the night) are probably the unfortunates in all this
you liberal hippies are so wet it makes me sick. How can you even say something like that when people have had their lives burnt to the ground. THEY are the unfortunates in this NOT the poor looters.
At least some people in this country have a pair, if it were up to the likes of Stevie wed have anarchy within the weekFaith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.0 -
And yet many of the rioters and looters were in fact laughing. Go figure. How do you explain it?Graham_Devon wrote: »Burning down houses and having old ladies waking up with looters in their bedrooms is freaking hilarious.
Strange how many people get upset when one merely tells it like it is. By all means be appalled by appalling behaviour. But when we're surprised by it, that suggests we've been living in cloud cuckoo land for too long and we've lost touch with reality."It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0 -
you liberal hippies are so wet it makes me sick. How can you even say something like that when people have had their lives burnt to the ground. THEY are the unfortunates in this NOT the poor looters.
At least some people in this country have a pair, if it were up to the likes of Stevie wed have anarchy within the week
There you go again, not capable of distinquishing between serious trouble makers and those on the periphery, I think the real bad boys with their bandanas, sun glasses and petrol bombs must be laughing their cocks off, sat at home with all their booty :eek:'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
You can't leave children homeless.
The fact that the children mostly come with a parent means you have to re-house both as children tend to do much better with their own parent(s) compared to being in the care system.
Oh...right...the "play the 'I have children' = you have to care for me because I have to care for them card".....
Well...if a parent cares so much about their children - then they will bring them up properly in the first place and the children would then be unlikely to go out rioting in the first place.
I would have darn soon known about it with my parents if I'd even tried to get up to rioting.
...and actually I think you have missed the whole point of these people being penalised in every single way Society can think of (including losing their Council housing). The whole point of punishing them so harshly is to set an example to others in this feral underclass (and those from other backgrounds who think they will join in "for a laugh") that Society will NOT tolerate such behaviour. Thus - acting as a disincentive to anyone else to ever act that way in the future.
So - it is not so much that the person themselves is being punished (if indirectly - via the parents who didnt take the trouble to bring them up properly) - its that these people need to be made an example of...so this never happens again.0
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