My blog tends to be about fashion or music, but this is a topic which I simply could not leave alone. I feel so many emotions as I write: Fear, as I wonder what will happen next, and where it will happen. Frustration, that people have been banished into their homes, and have been forced to run their lives around this scum. And finally, my most powerful emotion, anger. I just can't believe the images I see before my eyes. How can fellow Londoners do this to their city and the people who keep the city running? I bet there's been many a time these rioters have had to pop to the local convenience store to buy something, when nowhere else is open? And this is the thanks these poor shopkeepers get. Completely trashed, burnt out shells are all that remain of many of these shops in the areas affected. These shopkeepers often work between 50 and 80 hours a week to keep these shops running, and have worked for decades to build them up. And now they're left with nothing.
These hooligans claim to be fighting for a cause, apparently they are fighting against the police for 'the rights of black and asian people', which is quite frankly a load of rubbish, as many of the people whose businesses and homes have been affected are infact black or asian. But they're not making any kind of stand. The real reason they are taking part in these riots is purely to create havoc. To ruin people's lively-hoods and to loot as much as they can possibly get their grubby little hands on.
In all the time I've lived in London I've never felt afraid to go out and go about my business. That's what Londoners love about their city; the freedom. To go anywhere, do anything and at any time. At the moment this has all been taken away from us. This is what infuriates me so much. We're all running our lives around them, and it seems nothing is controlling the rioters.
Personally I think action needs to be tougher. The police need to be given more authority to give the rioters the punishment they deserve. The turkish men protecting their homes and businesses in Dalston have the right idea. Sometimes that kind of action is what is needed to deter these idiots. The army should also be involved. The world has gone mad about human rights. Well, I'm sorry but these little shits don't deserve ANY rights. They are better off dead. They are doing nothing for our country. Just layabouts. I just don't know when this will all end? Now it's spreading up England, and apparently the riots have now reached Glasgow too. It feels like we're in an apocalyptic movie. Everywhere closed. I guess the best thing to do, as Simon Pegg's character says in Shaun of the Dead, is to 'Go to The Winchester, have a pint, and wait for all this to blow over'.
Keep safe, Kez xxx
