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I'm not allowed into work today because Mile End station is out of bounds and the rioting is taking to the streets at the same time I finish so my Dad doesn't want to take me in or pick me up and quite frankly I don't want to be less than five minutes away from one of the epicentres.

Yesterday on the way home I saw an armoured column of police vehicles driving down the wrong side of the road to get to Brixton or Islington quicker! It's quite worrying especially now that arsonists have attacked Birmingham and Liverpool.

The Brits have always rioted, recently more in the last 50 years, there were riots in Tottenham in 1985 remember about supposed police brutality and racial tension. Unfortunately thugs and scum and racial extremists are taking this as an opportunity to wreak havoc and steal from poor defenceless civilians, so let's go N. Ireland on their arses? Water cannons, tear gas, batons. Anyone who is out shouldn't be so the police know who is a target!

Oh and now we are a laughing stock for the Olympics, China has written in its government paper
that: "The Olympics will be hosted next year; the security situation in London, which has always been a first-choice site for terrorist attacks, will be even grimmer. British police now face two main problems. First, as the government cuts police funding in order to reduce the deficit, British police will carry out massive layoffs. With insufficient manpower and financial resources, they will inevitably be overwhelmed with problems in maintaining social order. Second, after the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, the credibility of the British police has declined and there is still a very long way to go in rebuilding the credibility of the police and restoring public support," -- Qu Bing, Institute of European Studies, China Institute of Contemporary International Relations.