As it spread across leafy suburbs the only tangible pattern to the rioting was a cross section of citizens against the establishment. With a non specific age range and a remarkable percentage of females it was a mini uprising save for the overwhelming nature of high street brand consumer theft
But though it was for the most part a free-for-all fanfare of looting, the web of dynamics that converged to this point are the features of intense 24 hour public debate
There's that alienation point. A UNICEF report in 2007 reported that despite living in the fifth richest country, the next generation of UK citizens experience some of the worst levels of poverty . America shows similarities . The research found they regard themselves as less happy, and that they drank more alcohol, took more drugs, and had more underage sex than children overseas. Northern European countries are in stark contrast. Children's charities back then called it a wake up call
The disparity between the rich and poor is among the widest in the developed world, , with the richest 10% earning nine times more than the poorest 10%. The number of people unemployed reached the 2 million mark in 2009 for the first time since 1997. It is now 2.45 million
This includes degree graduates who are unable to acquire table waiting jobs not to mention those who can only string two sentences of english together
They're not addressed by tailored daytime tv presenters peddling a seamless data base of successful career gueasts grinning their way through promotional interviews and frivolous cook-ups. No wine bars of an evening or awayday deals for the jobless
While youth clubs are a commodity of yester year and an unproven correlation their disappearance along with closures of other council facilities have contributed to the evolution of street corner culture where youngsters, now unsupervised see the parameters of their stomping ground as the streets which, unchallenged, they then feel they have a claim to
There's the discipline issue. Legislation that impedes on the relationship between parents and their children has been an insurmountable travesty. We don't only fear disciplining our children, we have learnt to fear our children. Tearaways with guns are given warnings instead of the mandatory custodial sentence.
The judicial system is so laughable that it is folk lore that an imprisonable offence might land the offender a free holiday . Armed burglars are protected by law
Prisoners sue the prison service for thousands for minor issues such as falling out of bed. Serial killer Levi Bellfield is suing for £30,000 for minor cuts received in a prison assault sending out the message that there are no obstacles to making 'that' ever taunting windfall that keeps the rest of us playing the lottery
Given no definitive boundaries why not run rampant. I'm sure it's thrilling
Adults have tied the hands of adults, given children free reign and will pick up the pieces: poignantly in the case of the broom brigades
No wonder they brave tv cameras barefaced as they loot or set fire to high street stores at lunchtime on summer's afternoons
Recent news is then relegated but it must also be held to account
The countrywide mps' scandal exposed a complacent culture of unsophisticated theft of by political leaders and icons. Their impunitive spoils included porn dvds to restaurants, theatre , adornments and such simplistic trappings defining objectives for theft by the elite; tangible consumerism.
Cameron expressed indignation, distanced himself conspicuosly and promised an absolute parliamentary purge; then went on holiday to Spain
Hackgate burst open wide the dynasty of hypocritical swindlers that preside as gatekeepers of our moral values.
Cameron expressed indignation,distanced himself conspicuously , promised an investigation, then went on holiday
Meanwhile 20% of our children are leaving school illiterate and corporate engineered 24 hour mtv professes Americanised images of debauched precocious lavish independent teenagers who fulfill their peer image and appear to want for nothing except sticking a finger up at convention. In the real world utility bills are on an unprecedented rise leaving disempowered families skint in an ethos of profit before people under an increasingly draconian spotlight
With all the emotive ingredients oscillating in a powder keg , cue fuse, match and spark; a.k.a agitators, idiots and sunshine
Agitators are self explanatory. Possibly in clandestine relations with political organisations and probably still reeling from the royal wedding when free speech was muzzled and shameless opulence dangled in the faces of the have nots who fetched the bill
The idiots also don't warrant much description. Some are jobless and amoral in an era where repsect for adulthood is something of the past as are the social experiences of limited television, phone calls ending at 10pm, cooking dinner or just waiting patiently for gratification. Many idiots are of a gang society and many enjoy the buzz of power through recreational crime and some people enjoy the opportunism of a spot of free shopping. A nuclear family were caught filling their car boot outside tescos
The looting millionare's daughter illustrates the opportunism for sheer fun through once in a lifetime pack mentality chaos.
When the riots were in full swing our prime minister who seems to have patented the phrase on ' We are all in this recession together' was again on holiday in his £9,700 per week villa in Italy. Not as expensive as his chancellor's holiday who, after setting austerity measures jetted off to the world's most expensive resort which boasts costs up to £10,000 per night
Theresa May and Ed Milliband also had to be pressured off of holiday to come back and all blew superflous hot air
In out of touch fashion the government pat themselves on the back for unsustainably deploying 16,000 police to only one of the affected regions, after the horse bolted and went on to trample other cities. Cameron also threatens the use of water cannon which was Commissioner Tom Goodwin refutes is the prime minister's accolade as it is already a policing alternative. Mp Erick Pickles seriously suggests making the prosecuted homeless
On the ground it's the social impact that is the most frightening now. Vigilantes in Enfield were heard by a resident to be shouting 'Let's get the blacks'. Three British Asians were mown down outside a mosque, killing them. After a bus carrying three black boys was publicly attacked hundreds of english defence league supporters emerged and announced their prescence in the shadow of mob rule . The genie is out of the bottle now and four days of free reign led to a 24 hour conveyor belt of prosecutions
As vigilante behaviour successfully policed their own business communities the bluff of ultimate state law and order has been called and left dismally wanting and the respect it weilded is in the for now at least impotent
