England riots...

[canUsmellthat]

Why no riots in Scotland, Wales or N.I???

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/edito ... -23336677/

[SaltyJohn]

Cultural Differences?

[Beetlejuice]

It rains too much. Like it says in the article, "it's no fun rioting in the rain". For a start, all your newly acquired Adidas trainers and top-label sports gear would get drenched. Everything went quieter last night when it poured down!
The journalist writing the second comment on the article sounds like a bundle of laughs

[Pentlandpirate]

Why no riots in Scotland, Wales or N.I???

I'm sure it can be arranged by those who organised the disturbances that followed the initial flashpoint in Peckham. But did Northern Ireland look any different a few weeks ago? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-14138356 Watch the film clip and listen to who the commentator says is to blame. That was three weeks ago.

It's wrong to suggest England is a special case.(And who is to say the immigrants in the ghettos of Balvicar and Easdale might not turn on the community they live in?; ) The whole of UK society is afflicted with the same rot. Even if you go to some Scottish village you will find the delinquent hooded youth wandering aimlessly around at night-time, no proper family to go home to, just looking to find something 'interesting' to do whether it be to break into a house or car, shoplift, get in a fight, smash the bus shelter. No father at home to set an example, no discipline at school to keep them learning, no prospect of jobs, no knowledge of what it is to be a decent, hardworking, tax paying, law abiding citizen with respect for their elders or authority. Scotland has the same generation brought up in a country where political correctness has eroded all values of marriage, nationality, tradition, morality and the christian way of life our nation was built on. There has been a sort of spanish inquisition where people cannot utter their real thoughts for fear of being accused of being racist or sexist. The socialists went too far. On the streets of the UK you now see the results of Labour's social experiment. Scotland is no different and it is just tempting fate to suggest that the problem is isolated to England

[MonaLott]

Aw, PP, it's being so cheery that keeps you goin'!!

[Eric the Viking]

Scotland is no different and it is just tempting fate to suggest that the problem is isolated to England

The BBC have obviously been listening to you PP - that's why they're still calling them "UK riots."

'We're all in this together' eh?

[Pentlandpirate]

Not so: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... Irish.html

But even still I suspect that out of all the scumbags running amok there might be a few Scots, Irish, Welsh amongst them.

[Peter Connelly]

Difference is, PP, that Scotland has been doing something about gang culture, as even Cameron has noticed:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/2 ... -23337352/

[Pentlandpirate]

My point was that gangs, broken families, fatherless kids, undisciplined kids, jobless kids, kids without a future are a significant part of the overall population whether in England or Scotland. Over the years we see the trend of what life became in the US come to our shores. The UK is behind the curve in that respect, and within the UK, what has become a way of life in England has so often crept on up to Scotland. It does give Scotland an advantage in dealing with problems as they start to affect local society. But the underlying difficulties with today's youth are everywhere. Visibility of the problem is most evident in the cities, but you will see it in the poorer areas of Glasgow or Edinburgh as much as you will in London or Birmingham. It's as hard to spot in Seil or Oban as it is in some leafy rural town in England. The problem is mainly 'bigger' in England because the population is 10 times greater. What is Scotland doing to reverse rates of divorce, single parents, teenage pregnancy, drug abuse, murder rates, poverty, youth unemployment....all the things that have come together to create chunks of the population that have lost their moral compass?

[Peter Connelly]

This, for example:

http://www.clacksweb.org.uk/council/press/?release=1024

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6330631.stm

[Pentlandpirate]

Our father, who art in prison, even my mum knows not his name. Thy rioting done, you'll read about it in the Sun, in Birmingham much as it is in London. Give us this day our welfare bread & forgive us for being true idiots, as we forgive those who got ASBOS against us. Lead us not to an employment situation but deliver free housing. For thine is the petrol bomb, the plunder & its glories, forever and ever...I'm a scumbag ....

[MonaLott]

PP, quite brilliant! - you almost belong now in the Seil Arts Forum! However, I don't go along with your gloomy assessment. This was primarily a one-off breakdown of law and order caused by unbelievably bad policing which gave the always-existing underclass the promise of wonderful unpunished looting, basically high-tech updates of the same types that looted during WWII and throughout history.

[MsAnnThrope]

Well done PP, plagiarism and hypocrisy!

[MonaLott]

Aw, PP, you're not just a glass-half-empty man, you're a fraud!

[Pentlandpirate]

If someone tells you a joke and you repeat it to someone else, is that really plagiarism? I really can't stand the negativity of some on this site, telling me my glass is half full. Some of you need to take a look at yourselves.

[MonaLott]

C'mon PP, don't be touchy. But please re-read your stuff here. Half empty's a compliment. Society isn't as gloomy as you make out.

[MsAnnThrope]

Since PP is so good at advice can he tell us if his 'Finnish' is also advice?