Wednesday, August 10, 2011

The Politics of the Riots = Lady Thatcher




BBC News: As the article notes, rare praise from former Labour London Mayor Ken Livingston and a candidate in 2012, Mr Livingston has stated that the Government should follow the example of Lady Thatcher in the 1980s, then Lady Thatcher hired more coppers, as the Country was going through deep recession. In this Mr Livingston is right, the UK is on its uppers as they used to say, we are broke, there will be major cuts, the social structure of the Country will take a hit, thus the need for a major police presence to keep law and order. Also the Police have to be backed, yes they will make mistakes, but on the whole they should get total support, its going to get harsher out there folks, when the cuts really start to hit. It was interesting to see Newsnight last night, the Labour Deputy Leader was trying to have it both ways, while condemning the riots she also wanted to blame the Coalition for the cuts, thus the riots. If the Labour left start to play such games the Coalition should call them out on this, do they support law and order or the rioters, one or the other folks.

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