Saturday, December 11, 2010






















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Oli Parker said...

Good post. Although I thought the most interesting point about the student riots was that the police did so little. Their interventions seemed to be limited to keeping people 'kettled', whilst standing by and watching the damage being done. Why? One can only assume that 'trial by media' would be an instant pronouncement of guilt on their behalf, should they be seen as anything other than completely benign. Indeed, the UK reporting on the events focussed far more heavily on the student casualties' than on the police numbers injured; reading news reports from abroad seem to give a somewhat different view to that portrayed in the UK media. I wonder why?

As far as the Lib Dems voting is concerned, it looks like they are still trying to find a fence wide enough to accomodate them all. Witness Vince's pathetic shilly-shallying over which way to vote. But then, I guess that is the consequence of a coalition such as we have. It means the Lib Dems (the party that came third in the last election - and pretty much every election they have taken part in) have some people actually taking notice of their point of view!

Having said all that, I do wonder how much these riots were about student fees, and how much they were about the fact that Labour didn't win the election, and that the free ride the benefit system offered is now coming to a halt.


Joe Otten said...

You know full well Paul that people who will do anything for power join Labour or the Conservatives.