They're rioting in Birmingham now

[funnygirl]

It is like the world has gone mad!!!!

[milly143]

Can you imagine what the policeman the fired that fatal gun shop must be thinking right now.

[Eve]

From the bits they showed in Birmingham it looked like the McDonalds right outside the Bullring. Glad my family and friends there live a way out of town.

It just seems like so many of them are just being let get away with it and have a whale of a time which is just going to encourage more to come out and other places to try it! Doesn't seem like much of a disincentive.

Hopefully it will have blown over by the 12th :( I feel for anyone living in those areas (save the scroats causing the probmes) , must be heartbreaking to see homes and business and property be decimated.

[rowanwitch]

trouble is with smart fones and internet its too east to coordinate something like this... first call close the networks down in the big cities

[funnygirl]

And Leeds???

[cazzz1975]

they have closed down birmingham centre, they are trying to restoe calm

[DrFilth]

anneasquith they are facing cuts the same as everyone else
so with all the damage that has been done i can't see the pm wanting to carry out the cuts

[ummmm]

I would guess the policeman will be thinking he done what he's been trained to do...

[anneasquith]

drf. im not suggesting cuts to the police budget.

[vivandorron]

Trim... A great suggestion for filling a water cannon......Although some ABers may not know about 'Smart Water'. I do because a relative of mine worked for the firm. This is it:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_water

Ron.

[DrFilth]

anneasquith >>IMO the police have lost control, and too scared to be seen being " physical " with anyone, <<

i am saying it , with all the damage it is a good reason to save the jobs

[DTCwordfan]

You are sure it is a McDonalds as arent all their burgers burnt to destruction?

[jno]

ooh, trouble reported a couple of miles from me, this is getting exciting. If you don't hear from me again...

[anneasquith]

exciting ?

[ladybirder]

Exciting? Really?

[DTCwordfan]

where are you jno?

[DTCwordfan]

actually shutting down the internetin London may be no bad idea! Stops their communications.

[cc1]

How many looting days until Christmas? Da Community must be very proud of them.

[joeluke]

Welcome to a lawless Britain people

[ummmm]

Joe, have you read any of the other threads on the subject?

[The-HouseHusband]

To all those that are saying bring in the military have you thought about what you are saying.

Our Armed Forces are already stretched to breaking point with deployments to various hotspots around the world, the government are cutting their numbers by the thousands and bodies are being flown back on a weekly basis and snaffled out the back gates of Brize.

Just give the police the powers they deserve to deal with the idiots we are seeing on TV. CS Gas and rubber bullets have always stopped people in the past with only the odd fatality. Water cannons are overrated and take away the water supplies needed by the fire service for protecting the buildings of the innocents in all the anarchy.