I guess the rioters have booked time off work?

[SunQueen24]

Just strikes me that they’re all available during the working week and yet they somehow think they’re the backbone of society.

If I had to chose who I wanted to eradicate from society it would be exactly these cretins. Fit and healthy enough to riot, fight and terrorise police officers who all have families to get back to but not fit enough to be occupied with any economic activity during the day.

Cocaine grandads, heading for a heart attack, drugged up, drunk, overweight and raging about "forrins".

Time of work? But all the immigrant stole their jobs.

If that awful 'terrorist' Dr. Meera Baheri hadn't come over here with her masters degree then obviously Gavin with his 2x D grade GCSE (in woodwork and PE) and only misdemonor criminal record would be your Oncologist instead don't you know?

*disclaimer name of Dr. made up

I too was surprised at the ''Bravo for the use of the word 'Cretin'- it's hardly an intelligent slur, and to say ''Bravo'' for that is rather a pompous overreaction.

Wonder if they did IQ/other intelligence tests how many would get high scores?

You think they don't already have a yellow sheet as long as your arm?

I assume that was meant sarcastically?

I'm guessing @SunQueen24 doesn't realise it's an old derogatory term for people suffering from hypothyroidism- many don't as fortunately it's mostly detected and treated from birth nowadays so its not a common condition. Once someone knows this they will realise it's completely inappropriate to use, particularly in relation to these rioters.

You’re right that not everyone works 9-5 buts it’s safe to say that the majority of these men do not work or haven’t been working the past few days.

Not only do these riots last for hours but the majority of men taking part are drinking alcohol and turn up drunk. They are out until early hours of the morning and then either go home beaten themselves or with bashed up knuckles, torn clothing etc or they are arrested and taken to a police cell. They are also on camera spouting abuse and very openly attacking police and ambulance staff.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with people who don’t work or who are on benefits but everyone I’ve seen that has been interviewed has said that they are rioting because the immigrants are taking their jobs - which just isn’t true.

If they want to protest about something legit then I would support them (as long as it’s a protest and not a riot).
But firstly they blamed an immigrant for killing 3 girls, then when they found out he was welsh and Christian are now blaming lack of jobs.

These men have absolutely no good point or message of change.
They cannot tell you why they are rioting.
They are racists, which proudly show off swastika tattoos and attack innocent people.

These men do not work because they can’t get a job.
They don’t work because they think they are superior and the world owes them a favour.

@Expatfamily and now they're being used by the likes of Farage and "Tommy Robinson".

@Expatfamily

The problem with this narrative about this desperate underclass of people which is trodden underfoot by the government and metropolitan elites bla bla bla is that it’s radically at odds with the mounting evidence that many of these people have enough money for cocaine and beer every weekend.

I said this up thread: you can’t both be desperate downtrodden underclass and respectable hardworking working class folk. You can’t both get the hump about being accused of being on benefits and also try to play the sympathy card for living on poverty.

So many people trying to retrofit a narrative to justify their behaviour, involving some bullshit combination of stereotypes about “the working class”.

hypothyroidism actually

It's scary, considering that she most likely was also childminding non-white kids

It seems that many of the rioters are school age scrotes

I'll admit that I'm enjoying watching these thugs being fast tracked to prison. Brilliant.

@Expatfamily Not taught in schools is what everyone says when people don’t understand something. As for only Shakespeare! What planet are you on? Everyone has a change to go to school. You cannot assert anything of what you say should cause riots. Each one would be dealt with - certainly abuse if it’s reported. Most of this is parental failure. Would you like dc removed from families? Riots ensue with this action too and it has been through the courts.

Most people come here for a better life and most achieve it. Some people born here and others don’t but the state cannot put everything right. Attending school is important. No school is that bad here. Seeing a way out matters. I didn’t have most of what you list growing up - except my teeth. People can rise above their deprived status. It is importing not to keep blaming others. That way riots ensue.

I would ask where their parents are but I think we can guess

Nope I'm from that background, spent 3 years homeless in my teens due to care system failures and lack of disability help. I'm not like this and neither are any of the fellow street kids I lived with during that time of my life either.

Stop excusing it like that, non of us are racist and out there rioting. We also don't see people struggling along side us as the enemy. The shit hole unfit for purpose hostels we where dumped into by the uncaring system, we where all different races/background and going through the same experiance. It bonded us together, many of our 'family' we build from our experience are immigrants.

The violent twats who chose to truant school to play 'gangster' and get off on stealing and smash things up are NOT the same as us who where failed by the system and stuck together HELPING each other.

I would ask where their parents are but I think we can guess

Working, presumably, who else pays a childminder?

The mobile mobs need tp factor in travel

Some of those complaining about being unemployed include this guy:
https://x.com/Akhipotter_/status/1820870207566483550
Quite a few of them have criminal records for violence/ sexual abuse:
https://x.com/_jasminehahn/status/1818593389907997019

At work?

This is one of the best posts I've ever read on here.

I myself have never struggled, I have worked all my life, have a good wage, a lovely home, an amazing family, and all the trappings of success.

But I have met the type of people that Expatfamily describes, when I worked with the Police for a while. It is utterly heartbreaking and shocking to see the horrendous standard of living that some people have in the UK. I couldn't have imagined how horrific things were, had I not seen it with my own eyes, and when I tried to tell friends, you could tell that they just didn't really believe me. I mean, why would you, when you live in a nice little financially comfortable bubble?

We are talking no food in the cupboards, no carpets, no beds, no proper clothing, no escape from the depths of poverty. People are angry, and quite literally many have nothing to lose. If they go to prison they will get food and board that might be better than at home. And no bills to try to find money for.

We are talking no food in the cupboards, no carpets, no beds, no proper clothing, no escape from the depths of poverty. People are angry, and quite literally many have nothing to lose. If they go to prison they will get food and board that might be better than at home. And no bills to try to find money for

l also know people like this, on a professional basis. I do not believe, in the main, that these are the people rioting, however.

I believe that the woman who had a removals company already had a criminal record. She wouldn't have to declare it to customers.

Of course people who are trying to murder asylum seekers, attack mosques, assault people of colour and spray racist graffiti are far right.

Do you speak for every single person in poverty? I have seen the effects of poverty on physical health in hospital - it is not pretty.