but as more and more of my fellow bloggers, who live in the areas affected, do, I feel I have to say something.
And that something is; I’m not surprised. I think the UK, nay the world, is ripe for revolution.
Why?
Because our leaders are 100% out of touch. They honestly think that what they are doing is right and good. But it is wrong and bad.
You can’t remove the ability to have basic rights from people and not expect them to react. You can’t take away their jobs with no other jobs available and expect them to thank you because you’re reducing the country’s debt. You can’t ask them to donate to the starvation across the world while they watch their children starve.
And, yes, some of the rioters were children and people are asking where those particular parents are. Their parents might be working 2 or 3 crappy jobs to keep food on the table and a roof over their heads.
Not all of the rioters were children. Not all were poor. But all, it seems to me, are fed up.
Fed up of non-leaders.
Fed up of the rich getting richer while the poor get poorer.
Fed up of not having any opportunities to get ahead.
Fed up of hearing from the people leading their countries that they are doing what they are doing for ‘their own good’.
Whose own good?
Rising fuel prices, due to taxation, leading to rising food prices is not for my own good. Or my son’s. Or anyone I know.
Until the government wakes up and gets a clue there will be more riots. Maybe not today or tomorrow. But soon.
Very very soon.
Rampant consumerism and shallow vacuous celebrity culture is also a very big factor in this. We are all bombarded with messages to buy stuff every second of the day – the stuff you own gives you status in society, not the good you do or any attribute of any real value. Then people see other people just like them, council estate kids like Cheryl Cole, inexplicably become rich and famous on the back of no discernible talent or skill. There are very few role models and our politicians have no moral authority – even they couldn’t resist the lure of the 42 inch flat screen tv when they thought they could get it for nothing.
So, go figure!
Excellent BLOG!!! I agree completely.