I predicted a riot !

The London riots! Is it all an excuse to get a new pair of Reebok classic's and a mobile phone ? Or is it the only way the young, frustrated and uneducated get to voice their opinions on the state of a nation ?

Unless you have been sunning yourself on a remote island with no connection with the outside world you will have seen that london is in chaos with youths and gangs running, well... riot! and now they are inconveniencing all the poor people in power by making them cut their holidays short!

With all the coverage i have seen over the last 72 hours i have seen a few interviews and all apart from the political and services persons there has been a running theme, and that theme is in a nut shell you can only push people so far!

We are talking about the youths who are out there committing the rioting offenses and how they have been squeezed by the government so much that they are now an extreme version of how most of us average people feel in the wake of the financial melt down that happened 4 years ago. I am not suggesting that everyone out there is about to suit up and join these thugs but what i am saying is that most of us at the moment are feeling immense pressure just to survive(and also buy lavish stuff i really dont need) and in the face of such an extreme feeling its fight or flight!

All you have to do is look at the facts ......

• -Employment is hard to come by and keep hold of!
• -If you are employed i am guessing that most of you dont get an annual increase in income( because employers know you should just be grateful you have a job)?
• -Power which we rely on is still rising!
• -The rise in VAT to 20%
• -The constant rise in duty.

Its getting tougher and tougher to live and that is a fact! I am not suggesting that all of the rioters are products of a modern government! but i am suggesting that if there were more jobs out there or if it wasn't so hard to live in today's England or even if there was more for the youth of today to get involved in then at least half of those people out there wouldn't have been rioting this weekend! Lets face it, the normal average person when happy doesn't have thoughts of petrol bombing innocent people homes, businesses and looting all un sundries ( I will admit that they mainly seem to be targeting sports cloths outlets so they can nick some Reebok classics).But in depression things fester and manifest and then express themselves in destructive ways and that is what i think has happened here to begin with and now it has just escalated into something far more ugly.   

The government aren't totally to blame, as we all know things can only grow so much and then naturally they have to either plateau (if your lucky) or crash and in our case literally burn! As when our country was booming i think we ALL assumed that we would keep growing and that everything would be alright. But you know what they say about assumption being the mother of all fuck ups?!

Just to finish this off i would like to just say that i DON'T agree with what is going on i am merely saying that all riots are a product of the country at the time! All you have to do is look at what happened in Turkey, Greece and Libya to see that( Not that i am suggesting that a lust for leisure wear is to blame in these countries). I would like to think that the rest of us, if this continues? would stand up to this mob and take the streets back along with the police and bring order and peace back where it belongs and that is with the majority not the minority! 

I thought that i should put this link on here! Its a great idea and its a twitter link which is all about helping clean up after the riots so if you want to lend a hand please follow this link , you would be doing a great thing !