If young people in [name your Middle East city] used social media to organise a disorderly & violent protest about their discontents it would be greeted with approval by our press. Government claims that these were just criminals would be met with disdain.
Just making a point. Of course London is different. Our police do not go out to shoot innocent people.
Perhaps it just all got out of hand,or perhaps it was meant to be more sinister. Either way, it's the ordinary people of North London who have lost the most.
The police are also coming in for yet more criticism. Why did they not see it coming? Why did they not respond more quickly?
Just remind me. Why did the Met lose its two most senior officers last month, so that those in charge are only acting; just how many officers have been put on to trawling through old email & phone records for the numbers of those who 'may have' had their voicemail hacked some years ago?
Why shouldn't the young from less privileged backgrounds grab some of the attention by making their frustrations known. Just look at how their contemporaries from more privileged backgrounds got away (almost) with chucking dustbins off Millbank Tower, attacking Charles & Camilla in their car, swinging from the Cenotaph, attacking Fortnum & Mason, throwing a custard pie at an old man right there in front of the tv cameras in the Houses of Parliament.
