If you've been reading the news, you'll know that there is a lot of bad blood between the people of England and their government.
Essentially, the government instituted a lot of cuts to public amenities and services. They reduced education subsidies, increases fees for a lot of things - your basic belt tightening to reduce the deficit. There were a lot of protests, many peaceful, around a month ago, but in the last couple of days it's escalated to a whole new level.
It started when Mark Duggan, a Tottenham resident, was shot (allegedly)by the police on Saturday night. Looters, thugs and gangs have taken to the streets in "protest". This is no political statement, they aren't really protesting anything. It's all gone bad and innocent people are being terrorized, their property damaged, buildings are even being set on fire.
Let's hope the cops clean up this mess and the perpetrators are brought to justice.
Relevant Links:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/0 ... ice-battle
http://i.imgur.com/0VFZB.jpg
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/0 ... ndon-burns
This women is pretty brave: http://www.twitvid.com/4JTZH
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