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Originally Posted by Osem
Or more accurately:
If we're rightly not going to tar the whole UK with this brush let's not tar the whole of England with it. Let's hope these riots don't spread to other parts of the UK but let's not pretend that if we don't get to grips with what's happening in parts of England that it won't eventually do so.
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To call them 'UK riots' is inaccurate - that would imply the trouble is happening in other countries within the UK. It is not. The riots are (so far) happening in England only. To try to go one further and say it should be referred to as "certain parts of England" is nit-picking in the extreme, it would be like objecting to initially calling them the 'London Riots' as they were only occuring in 'parts of London'.
Had these riots been taking place in Swansea, Cardiff and Wrexham only the press would be rightly referring to them as 'Welsh riots' or 'Riots in Wales'. All we ask for is a little consistency.