RIOTS - Ruddy Idiots On Tottenham's Streets!

What a bunch of plonkers Rodney!

Yes, well, the "Tottenham Riots", which seem to now be the "Any city there's good shops to rob Riots".

So, lets get the facts out of the way first:

1. Man with gun got shot by police.
2. People had a protest about it.
3. More people arrived and started smashing windows and stealing things.
4. Everyone loves a bit of free shit, so half the bloody country joined in.

Firstly, I have to say I actually feel for this guys poor family. First they find out their son is a drug dealer who carried a gun. Then they find out the Old Bill have shot him, because he had a gun. And now a load of kids are stealing trainers from JJB Sports in his name. That is not going to help with the grieving process!

The lad who got shot is, of course, just an excuse now. I really do think Cameron hit the nail on the head when he spoke about "a group of people who...feel the world owes them something" being the root cause of the problem.
Oh bugger it, I'm gonna jump right in here...it's all Labour's bloody fault!! There's no such thing as a free lunch. No matter how much they'd have liked people to think otherwise, there really isn't. It was all going to go tits up one day, and now it has begun. People are angry because the current government are making cuts. Funnily enough, if the previous government hadn't been spending money that wasn't there, the current government wouldn't be making those cuts. When I was younger, my Mum warned me about credit cards. She warned me that it is very easy to balls it all up and end up owing money you can't afford to pay. I don't have any credit cards pretty much as a direct result of those warnings. I firmly believe credit cards are the Devil's Plaything and you won't catch me anywhere near one!! Someone really ought to have stepped in and pointed this out to the previous government. If it ever happens again, (Labour getting elected that is) I volunteer my Mum. She'd give 'em what for, and there would be no arguing the point!

Thing is, the benefit system is rubbish.* It encourages bone idleness. Too many people are able to claim free money for all sorts of ridiculous reasons. I have a 20-something friend whose working days I could probably count on one hand. She lives in a rather nice one bed flat with all expenses paid. For no apparent reason whatsoever other than sheer laziness. I believe "I'm allergic to work" is a viable thing to stick on a benefit claim form these days!
The sickening thing is that if you take away the free houses from the scroungers, as by rights ought to be done, the scroungers will only be out looting JJB again to "protest". What's needed is a change of mentality. A change away from the assumption that the way to become independent and get your first place is not to work hard, and save up a deposit. It's to stick your name on the council list as early as humanely possible and sit tight at your mums until the council hand you a house on a plate.
How can we change that mentality? I honestly don't know. Well, if I was Prime Minister I would personally boot the whole bloody lot of 'em out to fend for themselves for a change whilst yelling "get a job you flamin' parasites!" as loud as I could. Problem Solved.

I do hope the current government sort it all out, and I do believe they're well on the way. Sadly, I also believe that more than good politics, a good PR agent is going to be the solution. Otherwise we're only going to end up with Labour again next time round and the whole bloody cycle will start all over. Failing that, everyone might be so thoroughly sick of the "Big Three" that we end up with the BNP, or worse, the bloody Green Party. And then, God help us all my friends, God help us all!!


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* I'd just like to add one little piece of pretty conclusive evidence that the current benefit system is, well, buggered. I'm not rich by any stretch of the imagination, but I do run a business and I survive. But I am actually technically entitled to £400 a month of benefits. Yep. Me. Benefits. Oh do piss off! What on earth for? I have half a mind to claim it, demand it's paid in one pound coins, and then spend an afternoon throwing those coins at the council offices!!