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greentricky

7 of the 10 most deprived areas in England have witnessed riots in the past 10 days.
12 out of the 23 local authorities where violence erupted are in the top decile for deprivation, suggesting a relationship between pockets of poverty and unrest

“These are often communities that are already socio-economically deprived, and have high unemployment, which can contribute to a sense that there is competition for scant resources,” said Rob McNeil, deputy director of the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford.

Far-right riots centred on England’s deprivation hotspots

https://www.ft.com/content/c8317b53-ce27-42fc-bd67-59f9ac9267c9

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Kimmo in reply to @greentricky

You know how those fruit loop Republicans in the US have taken to saying that the Democrats are actually working to destroy society?

That's what conservatives everywhere do, all the time since forever.

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itsbruce in reply to @Kimmo

That's what conservatives everywhere do, all the time since forever.

Mmm, if you go back far enough they cared about society to the extent that they owned it, it was run for them and they wanted to keep it that way. Then there was a stretch where they were quite keen to preserve a notion of society that they viewed through rose-tinted glasses, generally based on a mythical idyllic past that never existed, either unable to see neglect and suffering, or seeing it as a necessary cost suffered by people who didn't count. Unpleasant as that was, the batshit "There is no such thing as society, only vampires and their families" nihilism thing is relatively new (and taking us back to pre-Victorian levels of misery if they get their way).

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