"Brixton is quickly returning to normal after last night’s disgraceful looting and disorder. Let’s be clear about one thing first: this was no re-run of 1981. What we saw last night was a mob of mainly young people taking advantage of the violence in Tottenham the night before to stage copycat activities so they could break into local shops. They targeted businesses selling mobile phones, video games, electronic goods including plasma screen TV sets, and sports clothing. It seems they used social media to move quickly in an attempt to out-run the police. There is universal condemnation from across the community this morning for what was nothing more than criminality and opportunistic theft.
I went on a walkabout around Brixton first thing and saw the clean-up operation in full swing. The damaged shops are being secured. Broken glass and litter – some of it left over from the Brixton Splash event yesterday afternoon – was being cleaned away. The Council is working with businesses and the police to make sure our town centre is restored to normal working as quickly as possible."
To read the full piece, click here
1 comment:
"There is universal condemnation from across the community this morning for what was nothing more than criminality and opportunistic theft."
Steve, in that case we've learned nothing from the events of the past week. As long as we refuse to face up to the mess we're created we're doomed to repeat performances of this kind forever.
Government is betraying large swathes of the population. People are left to rot from sink estates and schools through miserable consumer-driven lifetimes through to terrifyingly unsure retirement.
While the press demonises the poor press barons get away with breaking the law. As benefits cheats are brought before the courts for fiddling a few grand, rich Tories are swindling the country of scores of billions every year.
While the poor are forced to the casino-like speculation of rogue bankers; while the super-wealthy bask in the rottenness of their wealth, the poor lose life enhancing public services.
Of course looting is wrong. However, nothing that has happened throughout the country in the past few days compares to the looting and theft, on mass industrial scales, carried out by neo-libs and their parasitic kind.
So Steve, let's us as a Lambeth Labour Party get off our knees and resist this scum that purports to have a mandate to govern us!
Post a Comment