I used to live in London and I have worked all over the city and I used to work with the wife of the owner of the furntiure shop that got torched in croydon.
It sadden's me greatly to see the city I call my hometown look like a warzone and if believe the US media who have described it as London is rioting it doesn't make it look good.
I am I surprised that all of this has kicked off?
No, because for a number of years everything has been about rights. The right to go where you please, do what you want, privacy, get financial help or support so on and so forth. Everyone has rights!
Unfortunately with rights comes responsibility and because no one is holding these thugs and louts up on this they have got away with an awful lot and this snowballs to this!
Add into that a view that to get rich or famous you don't have to work, just become notorius in a good or bad fashion and again this is what happens as it is seen as an opportunity to get those things you really want like the big tv and flash trainers.
What I find amusing is that the likes of rio ferdinand, wayne rooney and others are tweeting about how out of order the riots and looting are yet behave like they are above the law!
