This unpleasant and discredited coalition is reaping the results of what it sowed when it announced, and implemented, swingeing cuts to public services. The surprise for me is not that we are seeing violence on the streets, but that it took so long to happen.
On one level it's easy: what is happening is disgusting and needs to be stopped, quickly and firmly. If that means that a few thugs and hooligans get hurt or, heaven forbid, killed, then so be it - go on the rampage, assaulting innocent people and looting shops, and you must expect what's coming to you. I'm with the police 100% in their efforts to keep the streets safe.
That said, it's easy to understand why communities say, 'we've had enough'. Unemployment in those London boroughs is way too high, community and youth centres are being closed, EMA has been abolished, and the increase in univeristy fees WILL deter working-class kids. When the government tells those young people by its actions that it considers them to have no worth, then what future have they got? Peaceful demonstrations will have no effect on this set of useless leaders, so it's hardly a surprise that they've taken to the streets.
Meanwhile, Cameron, Osborne, and Johnson are nowhere to be seen, and Teresa May is so far out of her depth that she is a national embarrassment. If there is one ray of sunshine in this - and goodness knows it's hard to spot - it can only be that it might precipitate the fall of this rotten government.
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