Tottenham riots

[Lincs Fox]

What an excellent article that is.

 

[Leesoh]

What? That for a wishy washy left of centre tart Mawsley can be quite the fascist?

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That's the truth!

It's the boots. You can't beat a good pair of polished jack boots.

They don't really go with the dress though.

 

[Durham Fox]

The moral decay of our society is as bad at the top as the bottom

Pretty much how I feel about the "moral outrage" from the "authorities". :icon_conf

What a load of old tosh. Comparing people like Richard branson and Phillip Green to the people who defaced, looted and burnt our high streets to the ground is not only ridiculous it's insulting.

 

[Jeff]

What a load of old tosh. Comparing people like Richard branson and Phillip Green to the people who defaced, looted and burnt our high streets to the ground is not only ridiculous it's insulting.

You're right, people who avoid paying millions of pounds in tax do far more damage.

 

[Durham Fox]

You're right, people who avoid paying millions of pounds in tax do far more damage.

To whom? Do they injure and murder people? Do they attack Police Officers and cause them physical harm?

 

[Ian Marshall]

Not a week to be working in the insurance industry (unless you're a claims handler/loss adjuster/loss assessor charging per case)

 

[Matt_B]

What a load of old tosh. Comparing people like Richard branson and Phillip Green to the people who defaced, looted and burnt our high streets to the ground is not only ridiculous it's insulting.

Pretty much what I thought. As he points out, what the rich ones are doing is legal, what the rioters did isn't. Also, when have the upper class ever had a moral compass? The rich have always trampled on the poor.

 

[Dour]

What a load of old tosh. Comparing people like Richard branson and Phillip Green to the people who defaced, looted and burnt our high streets to the ground is not only ridiculous it's insulting.

I think Green and Branson have done a fair bit of defacing and looting of our high streets. And the odd billion or so of tax they've dodged is more than the cost of these riots, of course.

 

[fitz]

Why are people attempting to make a political message out of something that was just a bunch of spackas acting like twats?

 

[spionfox]

Why are people attempting to make a political message out of something that was just a bunch of spackas acting like twats?

 

[The Major]

You're right, people who avoid paying millions of pounds in tax do far more damage.

Green and Branson employ thousands of people. Nobody is forced to do business with them.

 

[Longcliffe]

I liked the way the BBC reporter was describing the rioters as protesters.

 

[Durham Fox]

Why are people attempting to make a political message out of something that was just a bunch of spackas acting like twats?

Quite

 

[Durham Fox]

I think Green and Branson have done a fair bit of defacing and looting of our high streets. And the odd billion or so of tax they've dodged is more than the cost of these riots, of course.

Really? How have they done that then??

 

[Blue Maniac]

I liked the way the BBC reporter was describing the rioters as protesters.

:icon_lol: Nice.

 

[Dour]

Green and Branson employ thousands of people. Nobody is forced to do business with them.

Green's mainly in the business of cutting jobs, of course. And it seems rather silly to make a free markets/free choice argument about someone who specialises in monopolies and cartels.

 

[The Major]

Green's mainly in the business of cutting jobs, of course. And it seems rather silly to make a free markets/free choice argument about someone who specialises in monopolies and cartels.

BHS is a monopoly?

 

[Dour]

BHS is a monopoly?

I doubt it. But Virgin have a monopoly over West Coast Main Line, for example.

 

[The Major]

I doubt it. But Virgin have a monopoly over West Coast Main Line, for example.

So that's a cartel is it?

 

[Blue Maniac]

So that's a cartel is it?

:icon_lol: What kind of question is that?