I'm slightly uneasy about the blocking of mobile communications to prevent anything as its something the Chinese do and we're supposed to be a free nation.
as for the face mask thing - does that include niqabs and burkhas too?
The guy is a bawbag and thats all there is to it.
I read this yesterday and thought it was just about bang on the money.
Dear Mr & Mrs Cameron,Why did you never take the time to teach your child basic morality?
As a young man, he was in a gang that regularly smashed up private property. We know that you were absent parents who left your child to be brought up by a school rather than taking responsibility for his behaviour yourselves. The fact that he became a delinquent with no sense of respect for the property of others can only reflect that fact that you are terrible, lazy human beings who failed even in teaching your children the difference between right and wrong. I can only assume that his contempt for the small business owners of Oxford is indicative of his wider values.
Even worse, your neglect led him to fall in with a bad crowd. He became best friends with a young man who set fire to buildings for fun. And others:
There’s Michael Gove, whose wet-lipped rage was palpable on Newsnight last night. This is the Michael Gove who confused one of his houses with another of his houses in order to avail himself of £7,000 of the taxpayers’ money to which he was not entitled (or £13,000, depending on which house you think was which).
Or Hazel Blears, who was interviewed in full bristling peahen mode for almost all of last night. She once forgot which house she lived in, and benefited to the tune of £18,000. At the time she said it would take her reputation years to recover. Unfortunately not.
But, of course, this is different. This is just understandable confusion over the rules of how many houses you are meant to have as an MP. This doesn’t show the naked greed of people stealing plasma tellies.
Unless you’re Gerald Kaufman, who broke parliamentary rules to get £8,000 worth of 40-inch, flat screen, Bang and Olufsen TV out of the taxpayer.
Or Ed Vaizey, who got £2,000 in antique furniture ‘delivered to the wrong address’. Which is fortunate, because had that been the address they were intended for, that would have been fraud.
Or Jeremy Hunt, who broke the rules to the tune of almost £20,000 on one property and £2,000 on another. But it’s all right, because he agreed to pay half of the money back. Not the full amount, it would be absurd to expect him to pay back the entire sum that he took and to which he was not entitled. No, we’ll settle for half. And, as in any other field, what might have been considered embezzlement of £22,000 is overlooked. We know, after all, that David Cameron likes to give people second chances.
Fortunately, we have the Met Police to look after us. We’ll ignore the fact that two of its senior officers have had to resign in the last six weeks amid suspicions of widespread corruption within the force.
We’ll ignore Andy Hayman, who went for champagne dinners with those he was meant to be investigating, and then joined the company on leaving the Met.
Of course, Mr and Mrs Cameron, your son is right. There are parts of society that are not just broken, they are sick. Riddled with disease from top to bottom.
Just let me be clear about this (It’s a good phrase, Mr and Mrs Cameron, and one I looted from every sentence your son utters, just as he looted it from Tony Blair), I am not justifying or minimising in any way what has been done by the looters over the last few nights. What I am doing, however, is expressing shock and dismay that your son and his friends feel themselves in any way to be guardians of morality in this country.
Can they really, as 650 people who have shown themselves to be venal pygmies, moral dwarves at every opportunity over the last 20 years, bleat at others about ‘criminality’. Those who decided that when they broke the rules (the rules they themselves set) they, on the whole wouldn’t face the consequences of their actions?
Are they really surprised that this country’s culture is swamped in greed, in the acquisition of material things, in a lust for consumer goods of the most base kind? Really?
Let’s have a think back: cash-for-questions; Bernie Ecclestone; cash-for-access; Mandelson’s mortgage; the Hinduja passports; Blunkett’s alleged insider trading (and, by the way, when someone has had to resign in disgrace twice can we stop having them on television as a commentator, please?); the meetings on the yachts of oligarchs; the drafting of the Digital Economy Act with Lucian Grange; Byers’, Hewitt’s & Hoon’s desperation to prostitute themselves and their positions; the fact that Andrew Lansley (in charge of NHS reforms) has a wife who gives lobbying advice to the very companies hoping to benefit from the NHS reforms. And that list didn’t even take me very long to think of.
Our politicians are for sale and they do not care who knows it.
Oh yes, and then there’s the expenses thing. Widescale abuse of the very systems they designed, almost all of them grasping what they could while they remained MPs, to build their nest egg for the future at the public’s expense. They even now whine on Twitter about having their expenses claims for getting back to Parliament while much of the country is on fire subject to any examination. True public servants.
The last few days have revealed some truths, and some heartening truths. The fact that the #riotcleanup crews had organised themselves before David Cameron even made time for a public statement is heartening. The fact that local communities came together to keep their neighbourhoods safe when the police failed is heartening. The fact that there were peace vigils being organised (even as the police tried to dissuade people) is heartening.
There is hope for this country. But we must stop looking upwards for it. The politicians are the ones leading the charge into the gutter.
David Cameron was entirely right when he said: “It is a complete lack of responsibility in parts of our society, people allowed to think that the world owes them something, that their rights outweigh their responsibilities, and that their actions do not have consequences.”
He was more right than he knew.
And I blame the parents.
http://nathanieltapley.com/2011/08/10/an-open-letter-to-david-camerons-parents/
Unenforceable, knee-jerk twoddle of the highest order, that won't make a single shred of difference to any actual riot situation. As they all know full well. But best be seen to be doing something eh?
Still it'll give the police more powers to misuse alongside their terrorism ones. Just another weapon in their armoury to prevent any real peaceful protest
if there's a no face mask law are they going to make sure the police don't cover theirs too?
I know they've been more strict at ensuring shoulder numbers are displayed, but i think it would go a long way if riot police stopped covering their faces.
yea, WTF is all that about??? Police covering Their faces???
Surrounded by Zulus; the letter sums it all up nothing else to be said!
Reminded of Clash lyrics; "sten guns in Knightsbridge, knives in west eleven". (an analogy-of sorts) I just love quoteing Clash lyrics!!
yea, WTF is all that about??? Police covering Their faces???
Probably so they can't be identified and targetted after the event?
they are police men (Public Servants) not the SAS.
Interestingly some forces have commented that social media's a useful tool for them- they can use it to counter false rumours. It seems like the forces struggling most with it are the ones who don't make use of it.
Maybe I'm just being daft here, but it's a fairly unsecure communication method which people were using to say "Let's go here, at this time, and riot like ****". That sounds like the sort of thing that would be useful for the police to know about, rather than switching it off.
Meanwhile in Scotland, existing laws were used to arrest people using Facebook to try and incite a riot. because among other times, it turns out that people saying stupid things on social media are incredibly easy to trace.
cameron is a d!ck pandering to the enraged internet hating old codgers
his tragic political posturing aside this labeling of rioters as some kind of subhumans that are ok to evict, shoot with live ammo, etc etc is freaking horrible, may as well just make em wear gold stars eh? *
*you can stick your godwin up eric pickles ass for all i care
Well, the mobile phone network stopped working during the London bombings, and resulted in chaos.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/jun/04/july7.uksecurity
Maybe it's all better now though.
Still seems a bit daft. Probably over-compensating for having quite clearly failed to do his job. And I say that as an erstwhile (but exhausted) supporter.
In addition, the assembly's report stresses the importance of ensuring that mobile phone and radio networks be kept fully operational after an attack to allow people to check on friends and relatives.
was it not just the other week cameron was saying everyone deserves another chance..rioters as some kind of subhumans that are ok to evict
So presumably Cameron expects a lot more problems with looters in the future ? I wonder why that is ........isn't harsh sentencing and evicting people from their homes going to work then ? I think we should be told.
I'm slightly uneasy about the blocking of mobile communications to prevent anything as its something [s]the Chinese[/s][b] our Emperors[/b] do and we're supposed to [b]maintain the illusion of being[/b] a free nation.
FTFY