More Broken Britain?

[youngmafbog]

Something needs to be done about this.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6169859/Masked-thugs-throw-moped-rider-bike-repeatedly-stomp-head.html

[ummmm]

Violence is violence. How different can you get?

[dannyk13]

Fr4om fisticuffs to stomping on someones head.

[Jordyboy9]

Ummmm in my day we called it a square go,
Fists were used no knives or weapons of any kind.

[jackthehat]

No-one *ever* got their head stomped before...... the year 2000, say?

[Spicerack]

You should have shown them what the cues were for, ummmm.
Saying that, a bloke tried to beat me up over a game of pool once.

[ummmm]

Mainly, back in the day, disagreements were dealt with outside. Not always though. Those not handy with their fists would happily use a glass or bottle.

The breweries actually changed their glasses because of this. They shatter into tiny pieces now so they can't be smashed and used to damage someone.

[murraymints]

odious thugs need a bit of old fashioned policing when caught

[ummmm]

Spice - I've seen so many fights over pool.

[murraymints]

ummmm did I read your family ran a pub at one time ?

[Jordyboy9]

Don’t tell him PIKE

[ummmm]

Still do Minty.

[dannyk13]

ummmm , can you not see the difference between a fight following an argument and a set of thugs kicking the s---t out of a person in order to steal their scooter.

[Sqad]

Of course there has always been thugs, bullies, fights on Saturday nights.......and believe it or not they were reported....we did have TV, newspapers and the radio but this kind of violence is regular, more brutal and it does seem gratuitous.
I lived in post war UK into the 60's and in London in the days of the Krays, but there was an sort of "honour among thieves" which has now gone.
This is personal experience and to my mind there is no doubt that there is an escalation of brutal, spontaneous gratuitous crime in the UK.

[murraymints]

must be a nightmare these days ummmm..trying to provide a service and keep the peace...

[Sqad]

ummmm's opinions and observations are quite valid in that i would guess that she was born in the 70s and is comparing violence in society between the 80's and the present time...an era of 35 years.
I am comparing violence consisting of a timespan of 70 years.....during which time pubs and media were well entrenched in society.

From the above i have seen a marked increase in violence in the UK.
Also in that time i have learnt to be sceptical of statistics particularly of governmental statistics arising from the ONS.

[david small]

Until the punishment fits the crime. We will have brain dead violent morons attempting to take what they will.
As a nation we must unite and interfere with obvious attack’s upon fellow citizens. Consequences, yes sometimes, but together we can send this scum back under their rocks. The alternative everyone for themselves.

[naomi24]

I don't think there can be any doubt that this country is becoming more violent. Denying it doesn't change it.

[sp1814]

Sqad / naomi24

Yes there has always been violent behaviour, but what we did not have in 1975, 1985, 1005 and even 2005 is millions upon millions of photojournalists and videographers with cameras and video equipment ready to upload images to social
media.

How can this be ignored!

[sp1814]

For 1005, read 1995.

[naomi24]

Who's ignoring it?