Couldn't agree more Lory. There was a small amount of rioting local to me as well, and more serious rioting up the road in Peckham (where we were supposed to be going last night till I heard the helicopters overhead!).
What to do to fix the situation though? There won't be any single easy solution. What we see as law-abiding citizens is one thing - lawlessness, violence, greed. Someone posted on my local forum that the "rioters" see it as a "party". So presumably just a bit of fun. How can you get those who see it like that to understand that what they are doing is wrong - or if they realise that it's wrong to care about it?
On my local forum again, someone suggested that it is currently, in legal terms, civil disturbance rather than riot, which may be one of the reasons the army has not been brought in as yet, as that would be the Crown acting and therefore formally a riot and might affect people's ability to make insurance claims. Not sure how much truth there is in this, but it's an interesting idea.
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