re: Thatchers eighties are back - London Riots
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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
The people of this area are citing high unemployment and cuts in local services for the riots.(Reuters) There is nothing about criminal behaviour...which is what the looting and arson was.
There are deprived areas all over the country, many places are having to face cuts in services...yet the people don't riot......they don't set their local amenities on fire.
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Wasn't there a big riot in Jarrow?
In which the poor, and disadvantaged jobless, rose up, stole from the local shops, and then set the whole place ablaze?
It was a march?
Oh right.
My mistake.

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