The UK is on fire...

[O.S.O.K.]

I'm surprised no thread on this yet.... the UK is on fire - their "students" are all out on the streets protesting austerity cuts to their freebies.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/12...-uk-coalition/

I say "so what?" Let em throw a temper tantrum. Same thing here when we cut all of the freeloaders off - the hell with the bastards. The government should come down on their asses hard. They are essentially rioting over having to make their own way vs being given a free ride. Pussies.

[matshock]

The progressive train is coming off the rails...

[ATAK, Inc.]

And Nerobama will continue to fiddle when our Rome burns!

[El Jefe]

England is fooked. Their government has no money and must make cuts. But just like we saw in Greece and later in France, if you don't give the peeps everything on a silver platter, they riot. Being responsible is hard and the Euro's want no part of it. We'll see the same crap in the major urban areas when the over due cuts in spending finally start. Get ready.

[Schuetzenman]

England, a poster boy for why Socialism does NOT work!

[imanaknut]

That is what happens when the gravy train stops and runs out of gravy. Just wait until they have to cut the freebies in this country.

What a novel thought, having to pay your fair share instead of getting handouts!

[ATAK, Inc.]

England is fooked. Their government has no money and must make cuts. But just like we saw in Greece and later in France, if you don't give the peeps everything on a silver platter, they riot. Being responsible is hard and the Euro's want no part of it. We'll see the same crap in the major urban areas when the over due cuts in spending finally start. Get ready.

England, a poster boy for why Socialism does NOT work!

Yet our liberal idiots in this country still don't get it and continue down the same road as these severely failing socialist experiments!

I guess they just can't get past the fact that you cannot do the same thing and expect different results!

Liberals=Insanity!

[O.S.O.K.]

Part of me wants to see the riots here because it will be a concentration of the lowest common denominator - and therefore easily targeted for removal... trash removal.

Of course, if this happens with the appeaser in cheif on the job, that won't happen.

[Penguin]

I am just dreading the day we are in the same boat. Their are going to be a lot of unhappy people.

[Warhog01]

England is fooked. Their government has no money and must make cuts. But just like we saw in Greece and later in France, if you don't give the peeps everything on a silver platter, they riot. Being responsible is hard and the Euro's want no part of it. We'll see the same crap in the major urban areas when the over due cuts in spending finally start. Get ready.

You are right on, they are ahead of us but I foresee we are on the same path as they are in europe this is being planned to set up Maobama to become El Presidente for life. This is not by accident this is by design anybody else think it is convenient timing the wikileaks and net neutrality bullshit going on now?

Ask Michael J. Copps he has a plan for us all

The Federal Communications Commission should conduct a Public Value Test of every broadcast station at re-licensing time--which should occur, I believe, every four years in lieu of the slam-dunk, no-questions-asked eight year renewals we dispense 100% of the time now. If a station passes the Public Value Test, it of course keeps the license it has earned to use the people's airwaves. If not, it goes on probation for a year, renewable for an additional year if it demonstrates measurable progress. If the station fails again, give the license to someone who will use it to serve the public interest.

Now the gubermint wants to control the media, more than he already does with the M.S.M. Total gubermint control is what they have planned, look at all the takeovers, bailouts, manufactured "crisis" that only the gubermint can save the people all along enslaving us stealing freedom and prosperity. The gubermint is doling out poverty and misery and dependence on the gubermint for the people who earn a living to give it away to "selected groups" in the interest of "fairness" and social justice.

This is no accident this is planned, welcome to the new world order now serve your gubermint overloards like a good serf.

[63DH8]

Fuck them! They want socialism, they can have it! This is a prime example what happens when people are given money that they didn't earn themselves. The alternative is every stop working because they don't see why they should work hard if other people get the fruits of their labor.

Again, Fuck them! Let England burn!

[sevlex]

Where's my Free Shit!!

[Infidelski]

WHERE THE HELL ARE THEIR OPPOSITION ?!?!?!?! There have got to be some Brits that are tired of all the hand outs, car burning and window smashing! Someone over there has to stand up and say YEAH ALL YOU FCKR'S ARE OFF THE TITTY! Get between those losers and the police and the police may say ohhhh LOOK the its the people with jobs that pay taxes that pay us... OK yeah! OFF the titty freaks

[MOP]

Where are Syph, and Joey ?

Making Molotov Cocktails ..... lol

[old Grump]

Were next. The Dems in congress are mad at their fearless leader, The voters who put fearless leader in office are mad at him, fearless leader is trying to do a Clinton by sucking up to the opposing party. We are over spent as bad as the UK and the belt tightening is just beginning to start. Wait till the anarchists join up with the disappointed illegals. Could be a Detroit Hells night in every city with a large student and large immigrant population. You just think the Chicago cops during the 68 convention riots were nasty. Journalists will be ecstatic. After all if it bleeds it leads and they are going to have a whole mess of leads.

On top of that 10% of the population unemployed and probably that many grossly underemployed and the rest overworked tring to make up for the small workforce. I don't have any plans to travel next summer but if I did I think I would cancel them. A lot of short tempered desperate people and the money that should be used to help them is going to foreign corporations and whats left will be used to put out fires. Don't mean to sound pessimistic but we are just a temper tantrum away from joining the rest of the world. It's been to easy for to long and its about to bust.

[Joey]

Everything's calmed down now in London. Helicopters and cops all over the place yesterday, news channels going bonkers, reporters wearing tin helmets reporting breathlessly on the "front line", the heir to the throne, and his good lady, attacked in the street.

Here's a cop getting kicked in the balls by his own horse.



Putting the anti-socialist stuff on one side - Britain's never been a socialist nation however much you enjoy deliciously frightening yourselves with the idea - the main problem is politicians telling lies.

This guy, Nick Clegg...



... lied and lied and lied to get elected in May. Just look at his little lying face.

Not just little white lies or "politician-speak" where you don't tell the whole truth, but great big juicy whoppers.

He's now in government - Deputy Prime Minister - and pushing through the precise policy he promised to resist to his dying breath.

What are people supposed to do? I don't approve of political violence in a democratic nation. That's why we elect politicians so people don't need to fight each other.

But if a politician lies through his teeth to get elected, then does exactly what he said he wouldn't do, and there's no recall mechanism to get rid of him - Clegg would be toast if there was an election tomorrow - I understand why the lid blew off the kettle yesterday.

It's actually the sign of a healthy society. People take to the streets when the democratic system breaks down.

Fortunately no one was killed. British police are unarmed so must fight with their fists, nightsticks, pepper spray, horses etc. They don't have to worry about someone grabbing their weapon.

A message was sent to the government - lie to us to get elected and this is what you get.

Who here would argue that a lying politician shouldn't pay the price? And if you can't get rid of him through the ballot box what should a democratic people do? Complain on internet forums?

More pics. It was a full-scale riot 100 yards from the Mother of Parliaments.

[Joey]

NB The official who routed the heir to the throne's convoy through a riot is in a degree of trouble. Shows how much the British state was taken by surprise.

[MOP]

Thanks for the pics, Joey.

They burned a statue of Lord Nelson ?

[Joey]

Thanks for the pics, Joey.

They burned a statue of Lord Nelson ?

You're welcome mate. I think that last one - the guy on fire with Big Ben in the background - is Lord Palmerston:

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, (1784 – 1865) was a British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century. He was in government office almost continuously from 1807 until his death in 1865, beginning his parliamentary career as a Tory and concluding it as a Liberal. He is best remembered for his direction of British foreign policy through a period when the United Kingdom was at the height of its power, serving terms as both Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister.

Source

I doubt rioters would burn Lord Nelson (name drop alert: a distant relative of mine). He's a national hero who bashed the French (always popular).

[Ruskiegunlover]

over here, in the FREE states, you don't see rioters FIGHTING police very often, if at all, BECAUSE of their guns. Police here are authorized to draw and shoot, or another way, are allowed to defend themselves.

Socialism fails. History shows it. Its failing in England, and as a movement worldwide it is failing. You cannot pay half a society to do nothing by stealing money from the working half to pay them. It will fail.

I suggest your country arm all police, train them better, and let them shoot these socialist, free-ride idiots.