Charlotte (and everyone else),
Please, make no mistake about these riots. They have nothing to do with the death of the man shot by the police, which sparked off the whole thing. He had a gun. Law-abiding citizens in the UK do not go around 'tooled up'.
This sorry business is nothing more than an excuse for lawlessness. We have had teenage girls, interviewed while drinking booze they'd looted, declaring it was 'fun' and 'a good laugh'. I listened to a woman on the radio today, who has a young baby; she's lost everything she owns, as her flat was completely burned down by teenaged yobbos.
Puh-lease, don't talk to me about benefits for youth clubs being cut. Think about who the victims REALLY are, here. It's not "kids without jobs."
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