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On the brink of World War Three

It has been an eventful fortnight, hasn't it? My vacation was intended to be peacefull and an opportunity to switch-off. Instead, and particularly in the last five days, I have been staring at my laptop glued to the BBC website praying that my closest friends are safe in major cities of England.

Anders Breivik has been remanded in custody after the atrocities in Norway last month, so it appears the country has turned the right corner and recovering well.

But Britain since last Saturday has turned into a living hell. A peaceful walk to remember Mark Duggan on the streets of Tottenham was hugely over-shadowed by hooded youth damaging any building just to steal expensive items ranging from the latest fashion accessory to 52-inch 3D televisions. Occasionally after every product from a shop was taken, the place would be burned down, same applied for a series of pubs too.

Not just Tottenham was tarnished. Every corner of London would never look the same again, places such as Ealing, Croydon and Clapham Junction. The youth have spreaded across the UK looking for more lives to change for the worse as they attacked cities such as Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester and many more. As the BBC have emphasised "These are the worst scenes in living memory".

The British people are outraged. Every politician who have come to the streets after nights of horrific scenes are criticised for not reacting sooner. Children as young as 12 ran loose from their parents who've failed to master parentin, and shamed a proud nation, and the government have failed to respond in a way for these yobs to stop recking town centres.

David Cameron took three nights to act as he was on holiday in Italy with his family leaving the likes of Theresa May (Home Secretary) and Boris Johnson (Mayor of London) clueless, powerless, attempting to assure a worried England that everything will be "okay".

Cameron cut his holiday short and said that the government are doing "all they can" to stop the rioters. He ensured that 16,000 officers flee the streets of London in an attempt to out-number the law-breakers. They succeeded, but little they know that these law-breakers have travelled elsewhere which indicates the government's lack of intelligence and scored yet another own goal.

When writing this, the Coalition government decides against hiring the army to help the Metropolitan Police out. The police lately have received a lot of stick over their handling of the phone hacking scandal and the English riots hasn't changed the critic's negative vibes towards them. I do feel for the police as they have been mounted a lot of pressure and with their hierarchy positions still to be decided, they are rapidly falling apart. The government haven't been given them any support thanks to the cuts and appointing the heavily-invested military would help the police.

But having said that, the government have also been under increased pressure over the last two weeks. The Conservatives, when were opposition, blamed Gordon Brown's Labour for getting Britain into a recession in 2008 - now it looks as if the Tories are to have a taste of Labour's medicine three years ago. The banks, again have crippled after markets seen record drops in figures, particularly at FTSE100.

This comes straight after US Presiden Barack Obama's famous (or infamous) plan to cut America's debt. His role as President has taken a turn for the worse as his chances for second term at the White House has dented slightly. Personally, I've not fully focused on these plans for me to see if it is effective enough but it certainly has been given mixed reviews.

But the market prices dropping doesn't mean it's Obama's fault. Greece have been in extreme dire-straits, same applies to Ireland and Portugal as the debt crisis in Europe continues. France and Germany have donated $153bn Canadian dollars (£95.5bn) to Greece in an attempt to save their economy. The riots in Athens are bad enough as the British media have showcased before the incidents in England. Since then, the media hasn't shown the Greek crisis making the public around the world assume everything there is "back to normal" - highly doubt it.

The French and German governments were very generous to Greece. No other country would have done this but since the bailout, the Euro has emerged weaker than ever.

People have been a little edgy about the Euro since it was launched back in 1999 but it's seemingly handy to go from one popular European country to another without having to change currency. I thought it would have been useful for the UK to be part of the Euro franchise until recently. Despite the pound being incredibly weak, the Euro is weaker. The crisis in numerous European countries are a little concerning and it's a risk to join now, if any government minister here suggested it at some point.

Despite this, I still and always will believe the United Kingdom should still take part in the European Union - we are far from stable enough not to be part of it. The two countries who aren't part of the EU; Norway and Switzerland are very economically stable and do not require the support from other European countries.

Talk of Norway, I think that the world should be inspired by Scandinavian countries in order to live in a planet with very little financial trouble. During my vacation in Sweden and Denmark, I noticed how in my view, everything there was pricey. However, to the Danish and Swedish, their prices were considered to be "reasonable".

Why were the prices reasonable? Because their governments consider their people first. They give people decent wages to live in an ideal way and I've never heard of any politically influenced protests. Trust me, I would have known. I've been back-and-forth to Denmark ever since I was young.

I'm not trying to say Cameron must give us a drastic pay rise because our way of living is completely different to Scandinavia - but if Nick Clegg really wants his "fairer Britain" as he pledged in the Liberal Democrats manifesto before the 2010 general election, then he, and Cameron have to sort their actions out. All-in-all, they need to satisfy us and make sure the riots and market figure decline will never happen in a hurry.

Since Cameron's leadership, there have been too many protests about the economy deficit and student tuition fees. In Scandinavia, people just get on with life. Unless our attitudes change, none of us will be happy and the government have to be the driving force in that, otherwise there'd be more riots.

I fear, unfortunately that we are at war with ourselves and it's going to look bad on the government. With other countries in the red, I fear more widespread protests probably as bad as the Middle East's and it could be a new form of World War.

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  1. i would have to diagree about the police , i think most sensible people will have acknowledged how hard their job has been in the last few days. I think they did a good job. As for Cameron i am not a fan of him but i think he came at the right time after all why shouldn't he have a holiday; he didn't know it would get this bad

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  2. He is entitled to have a holiday, yes but he is a leader of the country. If I was PM, if I heard of the riots in Tottenham on Saturday, I'd be on the first plane back to Downing Street. Nothing this extreme like this has happened in London before. He only came back when people started to say that they hate him.

    I'm not discrediting the job the police has done as with the limited resources they've had, they've done a great job. The government haven't given them support because of the cuts and it's unfair on them.

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