Forget about the middle class: When the underclass lashes out ...

[HipChick]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8630533/Riots-the-underclass-lashes-out.html

No one seemed surprised. Not the hooded teenagers fleeing home at dawn. Not Ken and Tony, who used to live in Tottenham and had returned to stand vigil over the missiles and torched cars littering an urban war zone. Tony claimed to have seen the whole thing coming. “This was always going to happen,” he said.

It is no coincidence that the worst violence London has seen in many decades takes place against the backdrop of a global economy poised for freefall

Europe’s leaders, our own Prime Minister and Chancellor included, were parked on sun-loungers as London burned. Although the epicentre of the immediate economic crisis is the eurozone, successive British governments have colluded in incubating the poverty, the inequality and the inhumanity now exacerbated by financial turmoil.

One of the most tragic aspects of London’s meltdowns is that we need this ruined generation if Britain is ever to feel prosperous and safe again. If there are no jobs for today’s malcontents and no means to exploit their skills, then the UK is in graver trouble than it thinks

[eridani]

1. Impressed that even the Torygraph realizes this n/t

[johnd83]

2. All the dumb things the US did

England did even more. It is ironic that our underclass has formed the Tea Party to a large extent. We are all temporarily embarrassed millionaires over here...