It's 02:25 on Tuesday August 9th 2011 and the London wide rioting has spread to become UK wide rioting.
There have now been serious disturbances in the St Pauls area of Bristol, the Toxteth area of Liverpool and Manchester city centre. In the Handsworth area of Birmingham a police station has been set ablaze. In the Chapeltown area of Leeds rioting continues and one person has been shot.
In London rioting has continued in Hackney, Lewisham, Peckham, Colliers Wood and Clapham where a large branch of the Debenhams department store was looted for a full hour and a half before being set ablaze. Rioting has also spread to Bromley, Ealing and Woolwich which is being described as "a f*cking warzone." In Waltham Abbey the Sony distribution warehouse that occupies a couple of acres is fully ablaze and looks set to burn to the ground. Here in Croydon the air is still thick with smoke and the police have confirmed at least one shooting
So it is just like the inner city riots of the 1980's. All of them on the same day. I'm surprised Qaddafi hasn't been on the phone offering support.
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