Hhhhmmm!

I agree that the rioters shouldn't be allowed to get away with their crimes against their neighbours and fellow citizens - but the sentencing policy seems to be getting more and more dodgy. It would appear that the silly little gits in the North West who tried (and failed) to instigate riots on Facebook are getting the same sort of sentence as rapists. The more I look at these sentences the more it re-inforces my perception that crimes against property are treated more severely than crimes against people (it was, of course, ever thus).

Cameroon says that 'society is sick' (I have news for him - it isn't where I live!) and Millipede says it all comes down to the ever-widening gulf between rich and poor. My money is on the latter - although neither of them will sort it out because they're both 'slaves' of the rich and are only there to help the rich get richer. The days when we elected politicians, and expected them to work for the good of society as a whole, are long gone.