Libyan foreign ministry spokesman Khalid Ka'im has called on world governments to take action over the unrest in the UK. David Cameron has lost legitimacy and "must go", Libya's official news agency Jana reports. Libya "demands that the international community not stand with arms folded in the face of this gross aggression against the rights of the British people, who are demanding its right to rule its country", the report said.
That's genuine :?
Also, after Boris' calls for no Police cuts today, the Home Office response:
"The urgent need to take action to address our budget deficit is clear from events across the world right now. The reductions in the police budget for the Spending Review period are manageable. There is no question that the police will still have the resources to do their important work. At the end of this Spending Review period, the police will still have enough officers to deploy in the kind of numbers we've seen in the past couple of days."
Katharine Birbalsingh is a muppet. But I can't be bothered to talk about her whole article in detail when she's trying to sell flat lies like this: "Even the sensible people (and there have been a few) refuse to denounce ALL of the violence. Brixton, Croydon, Birmingham are bad, but Tottenham somehow was ‘understandable’. Come again? You mean sometimes looting and violence are acceptable?"
I've seen perhaps a handful of folk saying that the violence in Tottenham was understandable - and they were all rioters. I've seen lots of people say the
protest was justified, but all denouncing the violence in the next (or previous) breath - when they've actually been allowed to by the media.
Then the hyperbole of comparing rioters to the gunman/bomber in Norway, and the assumptions about Mark Duggan...
It goes without saying these riots need tackled hard and fast now, claiming that everyone who doesn't simply say "This is appalling" is making excuses is incredibly unhelpful.
