Unrest Spreading to Hackney, Lewisham, Croydon...

Icon_article Star Published: August 08, 2011 19:10 by south londoner

Tagged as: londonriots riot_2011 social_struggles
Neighbourhoods: hackney lewisham london peckham
Published by group: Groupbeautiful south

On the third day of the unrest in London people started to report clashes with the police in Hackney and Lewisham, around 6pm clashes with police were reported from Peckham Rye area. In Hackney people started to smash windows along Mare Street. There have also been running skirmishes and large fires reported in Croydon this evening. At 9pm there are also reports from, Catford, Ilford, and Clapham Junction. By 11pm the list has grown to now include; Old Kent Road, Ealing, Harlesden, Woolwich, TowerBridge, Stepney, Chalk Farm, Camden, Colliers Wood, Catford and East Dulwich. See list and map of over 30 locations unconfirmed. Elsewhere in the UK there have been reports of trouble in Handsworth in Birmigham, St Paul's / Broadmead in Bristol, Trinity Way in Salford and Toxteth in Liverpool.

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Lewisham in the afternoon

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the responsibility of the government

Comment Published: August 08, 2011 23:57 by the mekon

I don't believe the sheer ignorance of home secretary May, PM Cameron and the entire tory/libdem crew. According to the media May said it's all "sheer criminality". Not a single word about social tensions, racism, discrimination, disregard of police guidelines (excessive, unnecessary police brutality), poverty, privileged rich (getting rich and richer), disappearing middle class, growing working class, growing unemployment, lack of education, lack of equal opportunities, and last not least a tremendous, growing rage because of this arrogant tory policy. Don't forget the cuts in the puclic sector, the privileges for rich students introduced by Cameron, the finacial struggle for middle and working class students. Don't forget the tax privileges in favour of the rich. Cameron and his motley crew of wannabe conservatives and libdems have not got the slightest idea of the trouble their egoist policy causes. They don't anticipate the anger they sow. They don't know the fury they will reap.
It's all too easy to claim "sheer criminality" and neglect the social tensions beneath the surface of these riots, tensions produced worldwide by the political right, tensions proudly brought to the UK by David Cameron & co.

David Cameron, well done! These riots are your political responsibility. Congratulations, mate!

fatherless and poor

Comment Published: August 11, 2011 11:46 by Robinho

I grew up in a very poor neighbourhoud, without father, lots of brothers and sisters, malnutrited, never new clothes always second hand, mistreatment for medical support so I have backproblems, often fighting to reach school or the church. At the age of 9 I was the victim of a robbery by lads a street further. My family didn't believe in the value of an education.
But I would never ever think about plundring, rioting, setting cars in fire. This has nothing to do with mr Cameron, the government or anything else. This is the very own responibility of that young people with the hatred in their eyes. Their own unwillingness to make something of their lives. And if you want to point to an external factor, then maybe you can point to our fine liberal left wing friend who prefer to look to another direction from their fine middle class neighbourhoods.

@robinho

Comment Published: August 11, 2011 16:20 by -

"I grew up in a very poor neighbourhoud
[...]
But I would never ever think about plundring, rioting, setting cars in fire."

Well, the system certainly did a good job of indocrinating you with its values then. So what?

so what

Comment Published: August 12, 2011 09:18 by robinho

'so what?' Don't blame others for your own crimes.

See the story of Soheil K. who during the recent riots has stolen the laptop of Greg Martin. The thief didn't know that a anti hackersprogram sand every five minutes a message to the owner. Soheil said on his Facebook pages about himself: 'I'm money oriented'.

Don't take away people their responsibility. Leave them their own guilt in state of patronizing them with sad stories about their poor youth. Take them serious. Even in your own comfortable middle class left wing neighbourhood. Most of the times in this fine middle class neighbourhoods it is: 'saving the world, but don't know your own neighbours'.