[Margaret Pilkington]

Theresa May has just been saying that they don't want to get the army in or resort to the use of water cannons.....'We don't do things like that...we police by consent'...what on earth does she mean...the consent of who?.... The rioters...or the people that the police are supposed to be protecting?

This mess should be cleared up in any way that is possible, and that doesn't resort to people losing their lives.
This pussy footing around gives the thugs, the anarchists a free rein to do whatever they please..........and David Cameron saying that the perpetrators will 'feel the full weight of the law'......What kind of joke is that? If a murderer gets out of clink in four years(one of Baby P's Killers) then the rioters can expect what???....maybe a week or two at HMP...with all mod cons.
It'll be like a holiday camp. And who's to say that once in clink they won't kick off and wreck that place too?

I despair...I really do despair.