IS it surprising that young people are rioting?
They see the fuel blockaders intimidating truckers while police stand watching, farmers threatening MAFF officials with guns and not being charged, fox-hunters threatening 'civil disobedience' with impunity.
If a Charford lad behaved that way, he would (correctly) be charged with threatening behaviour, or breach of the peace.
Yet that same lad sees 'posh' people getting away with the same or worse!
Add to the mix Tory/UKIP/BNP crypto-racism and you have a powder keg in every city and large estate.
Neil Godwin,
King George Close, Sidemoor,
Bromsgrove.
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