What was it that I was saying yesterday that we might have five or six years before complete anarchistic collapse? That what economic breakdown doesn't destroy, angry locals will?
WHOA! Lundunum is in BIG TROUBLE!!!
NOW!!!
I was listening to the radio news after posting yesterday and Oh My God, Britain is in Serious, Serious Strife!
The rioting is spreading to it seeems like every city in England, well, Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds, Nottingham, Liverpool, Manchester...
Who was it that once said that "People with full bellies don't riot"?
This is true. When a rioter was asked by a BBC reporter why he was rioting, he said, "'Cos I ain't got no money!"
Big surprise there...NOT!!!
There are not enough police to deal with this one. The middle class (or what is left thereof) need to stop acting so surprised and realise that they are being groomed to accept totalitarian rule. The problem is NOT that there are too few police. A hundred thousand police would not be able to quell the sentiments that have led to this serious unrest. The problem here is not inadequate policing. London has such a vast network of security cameras that you can't even scratch your butt without half of the cops in town knowing about it and laughing at you! Orwell would be proud! No, the problem here is one of debasement of currency leading to the export of jobs and the importation of foreign workers prepared to do all the menial tasks like cleaning toilets and sweeping streets for a fraction of what local working class folk are asking. The result of this is empty bellies (and pockets) that in every other city in every era of history has always led to rioting amongst the plebs.
"An' Where's All Them Cockneys Takin' All That Stuff? Well Luv, Ain't You Ever 'eard of "Brookie Street?"
They wants to fill their pockets up, they do!"
I'm not condoning these actions. What I am doing is trying to get people to see what the source of the problem is, instead of reacting from raw emotion because emotionally driven decisions are usually wrong.
What are needed here are not pat answers. Suppose the Bobbies went in with rubber bullets, tear gas, real bullets even. These riots were initially sparked by an instance of police brutality. Do you really think that more brutality will solve it? Of course not. The East End would become an English Ballymurphy or Govan-a no-go area for all except English locals. Pakistanis, Turks, Greeks etc would have to find somewhere else to live, just as all non-Catholics during the Troubles were compelled to leave the 'Murph and just like Glasgow has for years been divided along lines of religious affiliation and gang loyalty.
What you would spark if you insisted on police access to all areas would be a second English Civil War-the Poor versus the Rest.  
God help us if that ever happened.
What is the answer then?
Honestly, I don't know. I don't know if there is anything at all that can be done. I think that all that folks can do is hope and pray and try to just stay out of harm's way.

Till next time,
Probably Tomorow,
All the Best to One and All!