« Reply #230 on: 09 August 2011, 18:50 »
I live way down in the West Country and I grew up in the '80s when Thatcher was cutting everything like Cameron et al are doing now.
There were riots in Bristol, Liverpool and London back then which were politically motivated and these started to spread around the country. Even the local housing estate kids around where I live were talking about starting riots in sleepy Devon. The same thing is happening all around the country now and the kids didn't have mobile phones and the internet back then.
The initial unrest may be politically or socially motivated but once it gets going and becomes national news people just get caught up in the excietment of it all and all the youngersters around the country want a bit of the action and it spreads a bit like a fever. It makes me smile to think those out on the streets now are probably the feral kids of the feral scum that rioted in the 80s. Nothing changes but the dates.
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