Boris buys water cannon for London
 

Approval has been given for the Metropolitan Police to purchase three water cannon for London.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-27781673

How very thrifty.

Not sure how useful they'll be though...

Re: Boris buys water cannon for London
 

Can't wait for the stoodents to kick off again :D

Re: Boris buys water cannon for London
 

Perhaps he'll get them loaded up with hot water and shampoo. That ought to scare some of them off... :D

Re: Boris buys water cannon for London
 

wouldn't that be classed as cruel and unusual punishment :erm:

Re: Boris buys water cannon for London
 

There'll probably be a human rights lawyer somewhere who'll argue that, yes... :rolleyes:

:)

Re: Boris buys water cannon for London
 

good call.... they would've been good use for some of the 2012 Riot's Fires,imo.

Re: Boris buys water cannon for London
 

I can't wait until it next kicks off in London. That'll be good telly. :D

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People mostly demonstrate in summer and we usually have a water shortage and hosepipe ban in the SouthEast, so hopefully they will be empty :D

I think this shows that governments are aware of increasing unrest at authority. Or they plan on doing lots more nasty things that they know will cause protests. If only they spent the money on fixing the cause of problems rather than weapons to beat down those speaking out. The Croydon riots wouldn't have happened for example without the immigration problem.

At least we can trust Boris to save Londoners some money. Ken Livingstone would have paid top dollar to a communist country to buy them instead.

Re: Boris buys water cannon for London
 

A spokesman said: "Following learning from the riots of 2011, the [Met] requested that water cannon be made available to address a gap in public order tactics, allowing us to more effectively and safely tackle the most extreme disorder.


following learning from the riots it might have been a better idea not to shoot people and manhandle young girls which seems to have been what started it all

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hopefully Gary will be along shortly to give us a date for all the 'kicking off' :)

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Is it just me or does something not add up here?

3 x 30,000 GBP does not equal 218,000 GBP :confused:

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I can understand 1, or even 2, but 3?

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there filling them with perrier water

Re: Boris buys water cannon for London
 

That was just the spark to the fuel that was already there and used as an excuse. If the shooting hadn't happened then something else would have happened not to long after which would have caused the riots. The shooting did allow a few gangs to put aside their differences and riot/loot together though.

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No doubt there are additional costs for transport, refitting etc.