Just to make me sound incredibly naive...but what are the riots actually about? ATM it just seems like people rioting/looting for the sake of it...usually this stuff happens off of the side of a protest/riot?
I just posted this Facebook so might as well expand here:
These aren't poor people, these are mindless thugs chancing on the lack of response so far to go out and steal in the name of 'sticking it to man' as they've watched things escalate, or
as one of these chavs said "the Conservatives or whoever, I dunno". They don't even believe what they are saying, they are talking plain sh*te and are just scum taking the opportunity to thieve. It has nothing to do with a black man being shot, poverty or how white and middle class Cameron is. Any apologist for any of this is a fool, plain and simple. People fighting oppression and poverty do not firebomb small local businesses and firebomb their neighbours out of house and home and call it "fighting against the rich and the police". There's been people rolling up in BMW X5s in organised groups to rob high end electronics FFS, people chatting over radios organising where to go and loot next, etc. Children as young as 8 even.