As the veneer of democracy starts to fade...

[hirez]

... FB turns into the 'speak you're brains' section of the Daily Mail.

I need a Junior Thatcherite bingo card. A cursory glance has already revealed opinions such as

'National service'
'Send in the army'
'They should get on their bikes and look for work'

I look forward (nb: sarcasm) to 'The enemy within', 'a short, sharp shock' and other choice soundbites.

(http://www.allmusic.com/album/as-the-veneer-of-democracy-starts-to-fade-r19078)

Comments

[inulro.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying "send in the army", but I have an awful feeling the army will be sent in, and we will all lose more of our civil liberties because of a tiny minority of people.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there's a sixties new-wave film in which a radicalised middle class begin their revolution by waging war on the underclass. Drunk with power, they set about the ruling elites. Or was that the sub-plot in 'High-rise', 'Running wild' and 'Millennium people'?

[zenithed.livejournal.com]

With the formation of the semi-uniformed Enfield Defence League I think this has now turned into the plot of 'Kingdom Come'.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Where are we going to find an army? Ours is already busy.

[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

As I pointed out somewhere on FB, Cameron will have to decide whether it's more important for squaddies to shoot Afghans or kids in Brixton and Stokes Croft.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Send the army to Eastville and shoot both!

[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

Snerk.

As long as they all stay out of Easton; wouldn't want anything to happen to the Sweet Mart.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

I'm beginning to suspect that the Sweetmart is really a giant crouching robot that lives by eating shops. If anything did try to happen with it, most of St Marks Road would rear up and beat the crap out of whatever, with a giant stainless steel wok.

It's already begun

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

In his statement this morning, David Cameron called for the repeal of the minimum age of criminal responsibility. "If they are old enough to commit these crimes, they are old enough to face the punishment".

[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

They're not real Londoners.

Police and thieves on the street…
It's going to be a long, hot summer from now on…

It's all a bit like reliving my youth really. All we need now is the NFEDL on the streets as well.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

At the arse-end of the '70s though there was no looting because there was nothing in the shops to loot. Do you remember what Tesco looked like back then? Less booze in a big one back then than the Stokes Croft Express would have had in it last night.

[zotz]

Also "water cannon".

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Oh thank god. I either thought my current vile stomach bug was making me cranky, or I'd missed something really obvious that made it ok to chaf-bash by people who bend over backwards to be liberal if this was nice and racist or anti-Tesco. It's actually got to the stage where I have to assume some people are being ironic just for the sake of my sanity.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

You must have better FB. Rachel's seems to be stuck between a hopelessly confused "Spirit of '68" and "My Manor, right or wrong".

[hirez.livejournal.com]

If nothing else, it's made it painfully obvious which social meejah pseudopod I should make pains to avoid in the future.