Well, despite it being all over the news... Tottenham is an area with a long history of racial tension. Sort of like Bed-Stuy in New York or Oakland, CA. Unemployment is high and the humiliations of poverty abundant, police search and seize pedestrians liberally, and to top it off, they shot a black guy to death last week. This is no way excuses the brutality of what's going on there, but that's why its happening.

http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/07/7292281-the-sad-tr uth-behind-london-riot#.Tj83Lj9oMJR.twitter

some more austerity will sort them out

I really hope it doesn't happen here.

It seems more economic than racial. Most of the pictures I've seen of rioters seem to be a fairly even mix of black, white and middle eastern looking people.

... and I'd enjoy it.

oh fuck off burnov

OH MY!

*fainting sounds*

Done