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Mmmmmm - unless your definition of "stopped being political" means you can't mention previous governments and their leaders (because, obviously, their actions/inactions/personalities had nothing to do with what is happening currently, as all the bad things occurred immediately after May 2010, as before tehn the sun was shining, the birds were singing, and the rabbits were going hippety-hop all day, and there was no tension in Tottenham, no phone-hacking, etc etc), I may have to disagree with you there......:D

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Well to be fair it's still OK to mention Thatc....... :D

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Steady on dear chaps just because we disagree on certain aspects of this argument theres no need to gang up on me as Mummy will not be too happy.:bigcry::bigcry::bigcry:

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I find the comment by denphone, totally resentful, the Met is not in a shambles over the 2 resignation and officers taking money.

My son works for the police and the biggest problem they have at the moment is political with the fact they are being stripped back to the bear bone - hence why officers were drafted in from Kent.

There is also this fact where officers are being forced to retire and being made redundant. Police officers do a great job in London, same as other forces.

What has happened here, is sheer disgraceful behaviour by a bunch of thugs ell bent on causing trouble. To me it appears, that no matter what happens the police are always in the wrong.

There was a suggestion by a forum member about bringing in the Army, what will that achieve, it could have made the matter much worse.

What should happen is bring the culprits to justice and put them into an Army training camp or enlist them and send them war zones, so they will know what the residents felt like on Saturday.

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Agreed.

anyway dumbo. he carries the old red BT phone around with him everywhere he goes :)

---------- Post added at 15:54 ---------- Previous post was at 15:52 ----------

That was me.

ok bringing the army in may be a bit extreme.

we can just borrow a few rocket launchers and tanks instead I suppose?

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What's "tally ho" got to do with this current crisis, besides using stereotypes to score political points?





Tally ho has no political inference to it at all but make of it what you want to Hugh.

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Hope you say the same when your lot are in ;)

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Of course l will as its best not to show any political bias like other certain forum members.:)

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Hope none of the green cabs were set on fire

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You could always make a request on the twitter page.

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Just head an unconfirmed rumour that fighting has kicked off in Kilburn and that the Police are expecting trouble in Central London.

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And it seems to be spreading to Hackney now.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...iots-live.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/au...am-duggan-blog

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14450248


Someone on Twitter

Policeman injured in hackney, we are here, v tense

Re: Riots in Tottenham
 

This could spread to other parts of the UK. I wonder where next... Manchester, Liverpool?

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Latest rumour from what l have heard is Birmingham.

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Of course, Plenty of nice shops to be found there, and if they organise it properly, they could get everything from under one roof.

Well, given all the video footage we've been bombarded with recently, I hope the police have noticed just how many of these 'concerned protesters' have failed to completely cover their faces when throwing objects at them.

They should compile (if they aren't already) as much of this footage as they can, and use it to throw a very weighted book at as many of these 'concerned protesters' as is possible :)