Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

What you`ve described here could be descriptive of any major world city. I`d say London was as safe a city to live in, as any other comparable city in the first world. The "Broken Britain" tag has been going on for donkey`s years now and I remember it when I was a kid, it just had a different name then. the only difference now, is that the scumbag press really do know how to feed off the fears and paranoia of the general populace.

As for the riots, those over tuition fees did have a sense of genuine anger behind them but I didn`t agree with those riots either, but these current riots are inexcusable and its just senseless and wanton destruction carried out by scumbugs and morons who just want to loot and cause mayhem, the death of the said man was just a an excuse to kick the whole thing off!!!

Strangely enough, I was watching a docu last night about rioting in Paris, which has a far worse history of rioting than London. I use the Paris example as its the only other European city that is comparable to London in terms of size, population, prestige and a similiar diverse ethnic mix.

I`d say as far as big cities go we have it quite good in London and I`ve seen a lot of the big cities in Europe and the World.