ladbrokes getting looted – what are the odds?

ill get my coat………….

The Duggan protest didn’t lead to these riots it triggered them. What led to them is much more complex but I’m sure that a feeling of no one cares about me so why should I give a toss is high on the list. Those who comitted criminal acts should be held responsible but the underlying problems in British society need to be addressed as well.

If it was West Belfast instead of West Bromwich. the rubber bullets would have been flying 4 minutes into it – wonder why?

There will always be wasters who like have nothing better to do than go out and cause trouble ,but it’s the salt of england that will be the ones to pick up the pieces

What a dysfunctional country. Thatcher turned England in to an economic shell by turning the financial services in London to Ireland’s version of building and then New Labour broke the country in to a balkanized mess where people have no sense of community, ties, responsibility,shared identity,social cohesion etc etc. No doubt that these people are marginalized but this is not political this is about plasma TV’s, living a rapper gangsta life.

You know the riots have gone to far when Joey Barton calls you a hooligan

Guys, this is what recession causes! People can only take so much..and I think riots like this are just as likely to start here!
Property taxes, water taxes, criminal churches, poor political understanding, crap tv, more tolled roads, petrol prices…and the rest!
It takes very little in a long standing downward decline for riots like this to begin! I am not condoning them..but the fever at which these riots took off probably represents a majorities frustrations!
I believe the rioters should be jailed, but government should know that suppression and oppression have very devastating reactions down the line…this violence represent that!
Leaders don’t listen any more..they are too busy reaching quotas and robbing Peter to pay Paul! I think we would be very silly to assume this would not happen here because general emotions are very low..and something has to give when the banks won’t

Some of the comments suggest that this wouldn’t happen "over here" …… Remember the love ulster parade where it was widely reported that those scumbags had NOTHING to do with a political agenda ….. As for the looting, most of the larger city retailers will tell you that the same happens in Ireland on a daily basis…… But at least they wait until the shop opens up !!!

For once, not Jackass Ireland! Jackass UK. But, ireland has the great potential to follow being a bandwagon country and not having the ability to respond to similar riots. I hope it doesn’t happen. All I can advise is a bit of math: yob head/baton=nice city.

Fire cannons. Zero tolerance. Melt there scumbag bodies.

We need to send in chuck norris hel sort this problem out!

Firstly, there is no deterrent or fear of anything from such youths today. Nothing to lose. Probably a £30 fine they will never pay and a community order they will never attend.
The gap between the haves and the have-nots is getting bigger everywhere in life and the resentment will out even in Ireland eventually. Are our governments any better at being law abiding role models? In both UK and Ireland we read everyday about our so called moral leaders demonstrating greed and criminality in other ways from expense scandals to back handers and corruption. These youths watch the bankers of the world legally loot their 500K bonuses while their own youth club gets closed down to pay for it. These youths are not stupid. They will hide their newly acquired plasma off-shore. They are laughing at Camerons big society. There’s only one culture these guys know and that’s the gang culture prevalent in every town and city in the UK. Its safe and lucrative. Sweep it under the carpet at your peril.They are laughing at the benign useless authorities employed to stop them where the police cannot even use their batons against knives or guns in the fear that a sky news camera should be filming and they themselves would get prosecuted. They have no values to uphold or respect to give. Give rioters and looters 5 years straight and give their lying greedy corrupt leaders,bankers and politicians exactly the same.

My friend lives in Manchester and her seven year old son was terrified last night. She had to let him sleep in her bed he was so scared. She said all of the damage that was caused in her area was carried out by local lads and some as young as 9 and 10. Where in Gods name where there parents??
This has got nothing to do with "immigrants" as that guy from Oz seems to think. It’s more to do with a section of society that has no moral fibre. The gangs going around doing this have been a melting pot of every colour, creed and race so to blame it on "immigrants" as he put it is just plain stupid and inciteful. Sometimes it’s easier to blame others when society breaks down because examining your own community and seeing the flaws within is too difficult.

Riots against the police is one thing but looting and burning down shops is just pure stupidity. If there was a community spirit there would be a youth club or some sort outlet for the disaffected youth that are perpetrating this violence against there locality. With cuts from this new conservative government the services are running out of money and summer holiday rioting is all the kids can do. It’s started with a shooting it will end in multiple deaths if it can’t be stopped.

it could well happen here so get your celtic jerseys ready! hopefully we’d deal with it quicker though.

i think people are foolish to think that all the rioters and looters are poor and disadvantaged. many of those interviewed on radio etc were well spoken intelligent sounding young people. well, obviously not that intelligent if they loot

We have the same underlying issues in OZ…. Piss weak government run by an Athiest in partnership with a Gay (leader of the Greens party).’take the rights away from the parents to discipline their kids’, keep bringing over migrants from war-torn countries that are raised to ‘hate the West and our ideals’ ( while 100,000 sleep on the street on any given night), illegal immigrants get better treated here than our elderly and poor – FREE phone, housing, welfare,meals, driving lessons,board,clothing,health cover,job placement,education and training. Take MORE from the worker and those with a mortgage to keep the feeding the slob who wont get a job, NO punishment for assaults, break and enters, stealing, car theft – in other words no DETERRENT. Maybe this cycle has to play out in the West to see some commons sense in leadership play out… First step would be to pull out of the U.N. and their outdated policies… Why should a WORLD body dictate the policies of your people and your country ?

The reality is that it is about immigrants , theres a class divide in Blighty that has been simmering for years , comes as no surprise , these young people have grown up in a segment of society and under conditions that would make most people scream justice if it was shown on a stupid mind-numbing soap opera , but when it comes to real life the majority dont want to face the reality that they have a lot more than others., dont assume for a minute that a lot of those young people dont want to get out of the cycle that most in their communities live day to day , the Irish have emigrated to England for so long and continue to do so , its only reasonable to think that among these shit upon minorities like the blacks , arabs & muslims theres not a scattering of our own….

the false sense of wealth & the roller coaster ride back to reality may have woken a lot of irish up , but theres a hell of a lot of smugness retained in the character , give it a little more time…., it’ll be starved out of ye too

I’m not from UK. But keep a look at the situation for sure. Without this little Islands standing against fascism evryone on earth probably speaking Deutsch right now. But now is a bigger problem. This problem is not from outside but within this whole country. I wonder why something like this could happen in a country fighting for freedom and democracy. It’s beyond the question of race or money. All the population is involve into a conflict where personal preoccupation take control over social responsabilities. What happenning at this moment could happen in any democratic society it’s just a question of time. D’nt be fatalist just be realist!

If the British were’nt so busy looting the resources of the Libyan people they may have a case for complaint , get the hell out of Libya ye warmongering butchers , go home and take care of your own country.
Apparently Gaddaffi has issued a statement recognising the rebels as the legitimate government of England and says that when Camerron steps down he may remain in the country……..

Whats good for the Goose and all that

This is for SURE2BSURE I have a very good job. And pay my tax. and pay tax for my staff . The comment is not about Me having a job moppet ????

go out and water canon them and help your precious london from burning down , if u feel so strong about it , talking shite about immigrants and Aboriginies. its kids from 10 years old upwards causing the damage. muppet

i dont care about who is robbing what , stuff gets robbed everyday, looting happens every day , all im concerned about will this stop the soccer this saturday !!

Vanessa, when the authorities from a parent to a teacher to law enforcement have their hands tied behind their backs because some ‘civil libiterian’ says you cant smack an unruly child or threaten them in any manner verbally, then RESPECT and DISCIPLINE fly out the window. They (the kids) are even handed booklets in primary schools telling them of their rights with numbers of the Govt. bodies to ring when things ‘get a bit tough’, maybe such as ‘abiding by the rules mummy and daddy put in place… What would you know about the illegal immigrants here,they have burnt down 3 multi-million dollar facilities lately -who pays for that????
Not them – the people of the land,the tax payer ! Maybe could of had 20 more doctors and nurses BUT those pepretrators will still get a right to stay in the country-even after ‘criminal acts’ like that ! That’s your short sightedness showing through, im not racist-just a realist. I pity the fool…..

Garda is all over the comments.sitting in there Garda cars with the lights out down a side road. Playing with there phones text in there mates saying gave them comments fingers down.

Waffler? More like full time wanker. Ive a lot of Aboriginal friends and the Govt. has a lot to answer for – for the plight of these people. throwing vast amounts of welfare money at them and returning land (they rightfully own over a third of OZ) and cheap housing with no programes in place for training or community based projects to help them help themselves / poor health care and not getting the ‘grog’ out of communities sooner has ruined these lovely people.
When the Japanese bombed Darwin in WW2, I dont think the Aboriginies would of gotten very far throwing spears at the planes -I think the Japs would of killed them all and not thought twice about it. Its easy to be White and have a guilty conscious about everything, as this is the bullshit were fed by Govt. on a daily basis.
If your white, male and over 18, YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS ! Remember -were to ‘blame’ for everything…. for offering a better life to the worlds poor and mistreated, for being the first nations to always raise our hands to help when there is natural disasters overseas / famine / oppresion of ethnic minorities / genicide tec.
YOU can live in your comfortable home and be all knowing and mighty and blame America / the West for all the evils in the world, but I guess thats cause your easily led and manipulated by the bullshit you were fed at University or through the media. lol

Ireland watch out. this mite happen here if the gardai don’t stop assaulting people and getting off in the courts with G.B.H……

You reap what you sow (as the saying goes). Blame the govt. WHO ELSE IS THERE TO BLAME ? THEY put the policies in place, THEY dont live in the poorer communities (but represent those communities.
The far reaching hand of the ‘toothless tiger’ world body the U.N. has put in place its dumbing down of the education system of the west, where the kids are taught to ‘think green’, that kids are ‘guilt tripped’ to thinking we somehow ‘owe’ the thirld world and developing nations for all their problems, that were not the ‘settlers of the land’ but we ‘stole’ the land from its original inhabitants, history books are re-written . Pretty strong words for kids dont you think ???
Try reading up on ‘Agenda 21′ -its a scary looking future…..

@ Damien
That is very apparent to me now, man. Voicing urself about the law as long as it’s not abusive shudnt warrant so many thumbs down. I shudnt have to keep shtumb on this subject n it rlly bugs me its a taboo subject. Another 20 î

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I’m from Québec province. You kno(w)k this place far away from the old civilised land. Well, maybe we still tracking beaver while you st(r)iking anarchy. But our beaver is on the nickel while the anarchy made by UK is quite hard to turn-off. UK problem is more than economical or social. It’s simply a sudden flocks of problems suddently woken up by the confrontation of Individual and Collective rights. Thanks God we still have our Queen. Over sir should get back striking log with my ax.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
P.S who’S gonnA SAVE THE COMMONWEALTH!??

Try living in a society where you pulled over because of the colour of your skin or arrested because of your postal address , apt name Waffler