London and riots

This time a week ago London was not the place to be, what started out as a small protest in Tottenham, turned into 3 days of riots, looting and stealing. The usually bustling, lively city of London went very quiet and eerie by the time Monday afternoon came around, supermarkets closed, people were sent home from work, shops were boarded up and everyone was walking around with a sense of unease. I was finding it hard to believe what was going on around me, and though I never saw any trouble over the days or rioting, it was bizarre to try and get my head around the fact that something like this would happen somewhere like London.

Monday was a strange day, you didn't want to watch the news and see these terrors ripping apart this amazing city, but you couldn't not watch the news as you needed to know where all this was going on and every now and again throughout Monday evening you would've found Neil and I peering out of the bedroom window on lookout for when they would decide to come and steal, destroy and burn down shops in our area. Thankfully they never did come, though there are always those poor people who have now lost their homes, jobs, and places of sanctuary.

Everyone is still talking about it, all blaming one another for what happened and it's hard to know whose fault it is. The communities blame the police, but the police had no power to lay on brute force. Then there are the people that started this all, where do you even begin to solve that kind of a problem. The government, at what point did they fail for this to all occur. I'm not starting a debate about this, there is far too much of that happening right now on the news and Internet for everyone. 

For now though things seemed to have calmed down again in London, it is still a wakeup call though, that something like this can just spring up without any warning. Let's just hope that for now and a long while that London will remain riot free.