Tottenham riots

[DungBeetle]

What is flaming - Insulting people?

So Boldie has a grammatical car crash and then insinuates that I am an idiot and I can't defend myself?

Perhaps it would be best if Boldie just withdrew his allegation via clumsy prose that Sky are racists.

[DungBeetle]

But I shall take on board your warning over flaming.

[kinboshi]

What is flaming - Insulting people?

So Boldie has a grammatical car crash and then insinuates that I am an idiot and I can't defend myself?

Perhaps it would be best if Boldie just withdrew his allegation via clumsy prose that Sky are racists.

You could conduct your discussion in Dutch maybe?

[ACE2M]

Engaging brains before posting is probably a good idea all round, lest things stray into flaming and, thus, deletions.

PC gone mad?

[AndrewT]

Engaging brains before posting is probably a good idea all round, lest things stray into flaming and, thus, deletions.

PC gone mad?

Nope, it's working fine.

[MPOWER]

What is flaming - Insulting people?

So Boldie has a grammatical car crash and then insinuates that I am an idiot and I can't defend myself?

Perhaps it would be best if Boldie just withdrew his allegation via clumsy prose that Sky are racists.

You could conduct your discussion in Dutch maybe?

.

Regards

M

[kukushkin88]

The PC is responsible for this brigade could not be more ridiculous. Political Correctness concerns words/terms that may be considered offensive by certain people, that's it, nothing else just words that some people may rightly or wrongly deem to be offensive. Whether political correctness is good or bad for the country is an entirely different debate but it's hard to imagine anything that could be more irrelevant to the situation that is being discussed. Also probably best to forget the idea that left wing political views are responsible for rioting. Left wing governments are about the harshest in the history of the modern world for responding to this type of behaviour aggressively and we haven't had a left wing government in britain for >30 years. Anybody who associates left wing governments with a softly, softly approach to public disorder should think of Mao, Stalin and Castro to name just a few.

[Dingdell]

I might criticise Northampton a lot but it only had 1 incidence of 'rioting' yesterday when some kids threw stones at a police van and then were promptly arrested. Nothing else after that. Partly down to the attitude of the locals against crime i think - this is of course where the granny incident occured.

[celtic]

lol @ someone telling boldie to engage his brain

[Jon MW]

southwark and greenwich councils looking into evicting any tenants found to have been rioting, croydon, hammersmith and fulham considering joining in too. housing minister grant shapps has tweeted that he'll support any social landlords who choose to evict

This sure will happen.

Of course it will happen, it's just that once evicted they'll be put up in a more expensive house somewhere else.

They would have to apply to a court for an ASBO to evict the tenants.
If the tenant had children in the household it would be very unlikely to to be granted.
If the riot conviction was the only evidence of anti social behaviour it would be unlikely, but if it was on top of other previous problems it would have a reasonable chance of success.

Also, the judges could be instructed to throw the book at everyone (although still probably not the ones with kids)

If they were evicted they could apply for emergency accommodation, which they would be given for the few weeks it took to file a report on their circumstances - this would conclude that they made themselves intentionally homeless and they'd be chucked out and have to find a private landlord who accepts their housing benefit.

The key things would be: the housing associations and local authorities would have to actually go through with what they're saying and the judges would have to be instructed to be severe - both of those could happen, but I'm sceptical that either will.

[millidonk]

The PC is responsible for this brigade could not be more ridiculous. Political Correctness concerns words/terms that may be considered offensive by certain people, that's it, nothing else just words that some people may rightly or wrongly deem to be offensive. Whether political correctness is good or bad for the country is an entirely different debate but it's hard to imagine anything that could be more irrelevant to the situation that is being discussed. Also probably best to forget the idea that left wing political views are responsible for rioting. Left wing governments are about the harshest in the history of the modern world for responding to this type of behaviour aggressively and we haven't had a left wing government in britain for >30 years. Anybody who associates left wing governments with a softly, softly approach to public disorder should think of Mao, Stalin and Castro to name just a few.

[  ] You actually know what Political Correctness is.

Definition =  PC is a term which denotes language, ideas, policies, and behavior seen as seeking to minimize social and institutional offense in occupational, gender, racial, cultural, sexual orientation, certain other religions, beliefs or ideologies, disability, and age-related contexts

Couple of examples of PC gone mad imo not relating to a word/term:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/4305798.stm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1392628/Schoolboys-aged-seven-reprimanded-teachers-playing-soldiers.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1306887/White-couple-told-adopt-black-Asian-child.html

[Laxie]

The world's gone mad....

[action man]

has anyone called the police?

[EvilPie]

The world's gone mad....

Made me chuckle.

[NoflopsHomer]

Engaging brains before posting is probably a good idea all round, lest things stray into flaming and, thus, deletions.

PC gone mad?