How dare the “top officer” not know a riot was about to break out, and just go off on holiday, as if he didn’t know… oh wait.
Weird angle for the Mail to take though, as surely they should be blaming immigrants/ the EU/ Health and Safety / the unemployed, etc Blaming the police is like something the lefties would do.
Well let’s face it, if they had intervened early it would have been front page stating “heavy handed police ruin grieving family’s vigil” – at the minute the police are damned if they do, damned if they don’t poor b*ggers.
I live near where the original riots took place. The main shopping street has been completely trashed. I object to the constant reactionary reporting as seen in the media.
“And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It’s our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There’s no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.”
Well, the looters are certainly looking after themselves and their associates. Unfortunately, the consumerism which was also encouraged by Thatcher has created a sense of entitlement without obligation. Who supported these views. Oh, yes. The Daily Mail.
Its reassuring to know that the police did such a good job in standing back and to do nothing to protect decent people and their property, that not one rioter was hurt during the riots.
Well done!!!!!
I did think you were being sarcastic, and thanks for the clarification. It’s nice to know that sarcasm is alive and well in these deeply disconcerting times.
This website really has changed since I started visiting in 2006. Most of the action takes place on the forum, rather than the front pages section, and I’m not sure if this is a good thing. Mailwatch attracts forum visitors and few others. I apologise for the cliche, but preaching to the converted isn’t going to help us in getting people to think about the absurdities we see daily in the British press.
Today I read The Mail in my local library to remind myself how much I loathe the paper and I was struck on how thick it was for its cover price. How could it be so much cheaper than The Times and yet so much bigger?
Leafing through, I saw that about half the space was taken up by adverts and many of the stories simply weren’t worth reading whatever one’s particular political stance. Some bloke who did 3D designs on local pavements was given a double page spread with colour photos. What a waste of ink.
Some of the articles were simply massive. An item about Nick Clegg’s ‘exotic’ past went on for three pages, and a piece written by the oddity that is Liz Jones got another double page spread. Say what you like about Mail writers, but if journalism is about filling acres of space with inane twaddle, they are the masters.
Must be all those efficency savings
How dare the “top officer” not know a riot was about to break out, and just go off on holiday, as if he didn’t know… oh wait.
Weird angle for the Mail to take though, as surely they should be blaming immigrants/ the EU/ Health and Safety / the unemployed, etc Blaming the police is like something the lefties would do.
Thatcher must be turning in her grave.
Well let’s face it, if they had intervened early it would have been front page stating “heavy handed police ruin grieving family’s vigil” – at the minute the police are damned if they do, damned if they don’t poor b*ggers.
This would never have happened in Yates and Stephenson’s day. Proper cops they were, slavishly obeying the orders of the tabloids…..
Cameron’s big society in action.
Let’s look on the bright side.
These are going to be great great news days for the Mail
Manna from heaven!!
I live near where the original riots took place. The main shopping street has been completely trashed. I object to the constant reactionary reporting as seen in the media.
Not as big as their blunder, though. They report an attack on Birmingham Children’s Hospital http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024393/Rioters-attack-Birmingham-Childrens-Hospital-preventing-parents-dying-baby.html only for the story to be denied by the hospital in a statement published in the Birmingham Mail; it seems it started out as a social media rumour.
http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2011/08/10/birmingham-disturbances-children-s-hospital-hits-out-over-social-media-rumours-97319-29209587/
A generation has grown up since this was said:
“And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It’s our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There’s no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.”
Well, the looters are certainly looking after themselves and their associates. Unfortunately, the consumerism which was also encouraged by Thatcher has created a sense of entitlement without obligation. Who supported these views. Oh, yes. The Daily Mail.
Its reassuring to know that the police did such a good job in standing back and to do nothing to protect decent people and their property, that not one rioter was hurt during the riots.
Well done!!!!!
Yes indeed, Lady Burglar. Nobody got hurt and now, thanks to round-the-clock court sessions, rioters are finally getting their just desserts.
Given the opportunity would you have handled things differently? How?
Nobody got hurt apart from those that are now dead thanks to these yobs.
It was pure sarcasm
I did think you were being sarcastic, and thanks for the clarification. It’s nice to know that sarcasm is alive and well in these deeply disconcerting times.
This website really has changed since I started visiting in 2006. Most of the action takes place on the forum, rather than the front pages section, and I’m not sure if this is a good thing. Mailwatch attracts forum visitors and few others. I apologise for the cliche, but preaching to the converted isn’t going to help us in getting people to think about the absurdities we see daily in the British press.
Today I read The Mail in my local library to remind myself how much I loathe the paper and I was struck on how thick it was for its cover price. How could it be so much cheaper than The Times and yet so much bigger?
Leafing through, I saw that about half the space was taken up by adverts and many of the stories simply weren’t worth reading whatever one’s particular political stance. Some bloke who did 3D designs on local pavements was given a double page spread with colour photos. What a waste of ink.
Some of the articles were simply massive. An item about Nick Clegg’s ‘exotic’ past went on for three pages, and a piece written by the oddity that is Liz Jones got another double page spread. Say what you like about Mail writers, but if journalism is about filling acres of space with inane twaddle, they are the masters.