Riots in Tottenham, London! (NO RACIST COMMENTS)

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Sky / BBC seem keen on Only highlighting the White older people who were caught there is definitely an agenda here.
Kay burleys interview which she cut short when the guy was adamant it was a gang of hooded black youths only heighten my suspicions that this is being handed with kid gloves to play down the issue

When I woke up this morning things was looking bad. I got the distinct impression that (mostly racial) tensions had got to the point where looters were likely to start dying if things kicked off tonight again. I got home from work, and there's a complete change of tone.

Deliberate? Definitely. A good thing though; do we really want things to escalate? What if the communities that have been getting hit created their own angry mob (as was sounding likely in the early hours) and gone seeking out looters to dispense some swift justice/retribution? It's not so much that part, but the retaliation that would come from that action. We could have wound up with war on the streets with the police caught between them.
 
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I knew I had seen that somewhere. Oh yeah, it was in L4D2.

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So much lol :D
 
I love the guy at the end (no homo) of the video above saying everyone is taking their jobs so the rioting has to be done innit,

If you uneducated people had two brain cells and got off your dole arses for a change maybe you could hold a job!
 
Youth centres gotten rid of, if LABOUR didn't spend us into an economic meltdown, we could afford youth centres. Ignoring them being closed down, I never had a youth centre where I lived, I hung out with friends, talked, had school work, had a job, read books, played games. Sorry but, my xbox 360 got boring, and me and my friends want to hang out somewhere in particular and the government isn't paying for our free entertainment which most of the rest of the world doesn't get, is not a reason to riot so honestly, STFU.

^^ Well said.

Has anyone actually confirmed that the youth centres are being "gotten rid of"? I keep hearing this, but I still hasn't seen any evidence of it. And wouldn't that be a local government issue anyway?

Here's a brief overview of Cameron's cuts:

• A freeze on hiring in the civil service until April 2011.

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• £10m savings on cutting down on first-class travel and £5m from restricting ministerial cars and drivers and getting members of the government to walk, use public transport or a pooled car.

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• The Cabinet Office, one of the smallest spending departments, will have to save £79m.

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• £600m from cutting public sector quangos.

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• Schools, 16- to 19-year-olds and Sure Start funding protected.

• £670m savings in the Department for Education.

• £80m saved by abolishing schools technology agency Becta and other savings in education quangos.

• £50m will be invested in further education colleges, particularly building programmes.

• £150m extra funding for 50,000 new adult apprenticeship places at small and medium-sized companies.


• There will be 10,000 fewer university places for this autumn than had been promised by Labour, this at a time of record demand.

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• Cuts totalling £535m in the Department for Work and Pensions.

• £320m savings by reducing then axing child trust funds.

• £320m by ending "ineffective" elements of employment programmes.

• Labour's key programme to persuade employers to improve workforce skills, Train to Gain, is being cut.

• Extra £20m funding for respite care, to pay for 8,000 week-long breaks for people caring for severely-disabled children.

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• £780m cuts in the Department for Communities and Local Government.

• £1.2bn reduction to local authority grants, though the main grant, the £29bn formula grant, is untouched.

• £270m by scrapping "lower value" spending by regional development agencies.

• Retaining £150m cuts in housing identified by Labour, but providing an extra £170m to fund 4,000 social housing.

• Removing £1.7bn ringfencing of other council grants.

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• The core NHS budget is protected.

• Savings expected to be dominated by cuts to quangos, with money saved to be recycled in the NHS budget.

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• "Great majority" of £6.243bn of spending cuts will be used to cut the 2010-11 deficit, which was previously estimated at £163bn.

• British industrial growth could be hit by the £836m of cuts at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

• Possible targets for cuts include an £80m loan to Sheffield Forgemasters, a £20m loan to Nissan to develop green cars, and £270m of support for General Motors/Vauxhall.

• £200m of the BIS savings will be "recycled", funding 50,000 adult apprenticeship starts and capital investment in some Further Education colleges.

• Cuts will be made to the "Train to Gain" skills scheme.

• On unemployment, the Young Person's Guarantee scheme stays, but the temporary jobs option is being dropped, saving £290m.

• Cuts in IT projects and consultancy will hurt outsourcing companies.

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The Home Office budget is to be cut by £367m:

• £34m from increased immigration and visa fees, and criminal asset recovery receipts.

• £135m from police efficiency savings.

• £82m from arms-length bodies, including NPIA (£30m) and SOCA (£10m).

(Source).

Based on those figures, I honestly can't see how anyone can claim that low income earners are taking the biggest hit. There are some cuts to training schemes, but there's also a lot of new money for other schemes. I don't see any evidence of training schemes being abolished outright, and I certainly don't see any evidence that youth centres are being closed down by #10.
 
err You know her in that video?, you poor poor person :(

I wouldn't say I know her that well, but between May and December last year I used to work with her. Lisa was one of the few genuine people in that place, in that she didn't **** stir, and she had no time for the mind games and usual office politics that went on there. She was refreshingly honest, if you gave her cause to think you were a "see you next Tuesday", she'd straight out tell you to your face, and for that I respected her.

As I say, she originally worked not far from where she lived in Manchester, but followed the job to Runcorn when the company restructured, rather than taking the redundancy on offer and the pathway to benefits I might add. She commuted 30 miles each way everyday, which easily took her 2 hours given the state of the M56 in both directions at rush hour. The one thing she can't be accused of is being dole scum or work shy. It was a ******, horrible job, but she got on with it, and was good at it.

I suppose I've had the lesson that you can't judge a book by it's cover reinforced tonight.
 
The irony is, these idiots don't even want jobs. They're happier lazing around on benefits.

Yea, it makes them feel more able to justify their laziness by blaming it on things like foreigners taking their jobs. Jobs they wouldn't go for anyway even if the whole country was still made up of anglo saxon brits.
 
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