Health and Safety Rules Keep London Residents From Cleaning Up Damage After Riots
- Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:32pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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A group of residents from London and beyond have organized on Twitter to clean up their city in response to savage riots that left the Tottenham area of the city in flames and destroyed. However, when the group of 20 arrived with dustpans and brushes on hand to help clean up the tattered small businesses, they were turned away by authorities because of health and safety issues reports the Telegraph:
“The clean-up operation had been expected to begin at 1pm after police dealt with the crime scene. But officers told the volunteers that the decision had been made for the clean-up to be done by the council.
Asked why, an officer said: ‘Health and safety mainly. There’s lots of broken glass around.’”
Residents disgusted by the destruction have organized across the city via Twitter using hashtags like #londoncleanup and #riotcleanup to organize themselves.
The Mirror reported that the group says they now plan to help out in the side streets that have not been cordoned off by police.
“James Walker, who is helping coordinate the clean-up, told the crowd: ‘Even if we can’t to do the glory jobs we can still contribute to our community.’
A spokeswoman for Camden Borough Council said the clean-up operation was already well under way there.”
Amateur video on Youtube of the group ready to clean shows the crowds in strong support of police as they drive by:
Over the last few days Londoners have established pages on Facebook such as “Post riot clean-up: let’s help London,” which has already attracted over 16,000 supporters, and 59,000 have liked “Not rioting in London, because I’m not a degenerate scumbag.”
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Comments (77)
The Gooch
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 9:00pmAs Han Solo soundly stated: “No time to discuss this as a committee.”
Report Post »Damn you, citizens! How dare you consider to even assume you know what is right and proper?!? We’ll decide who cleans up where and when.
This might indicate a level of bureacratic insanity on the level of hubris.
Shiroi Raion
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 9:27pmOnce again! With big government, no good deed goes unpunished! Again and again.
Report Post »ConsiderThis
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:20pmThat type of mentality is exactly why Britain is in this mess.
Report Post »Good old liberal/socialist ideology at work.
The-Monk
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:35pmBurn the regulations and just clean up the mess. Oh, by the way, give the Police some real guns. Watching Bobbies trying to push violent criminals’ away with a stick and a small clear round shield is like watching Captain Kangaroo and Mister Green Jeans trying to confront the New Black Panthers with nice words. Don’t you Bobbies carry mace or stun guns? You’re just too nice to rioting thugs!
Report Post »Caniac Steve
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:24pmPolitical Correctness is in charge and common sense tossed asside as it is too offencive..only in the EU
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 12:26amThe socialism riots are a direct result of the philosophy of socialism. Leftism in practice always fails but most of the time it fails with mass murder.
Report Post »BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:32amSeriously. The police do not carry guns forcing them to shout out (when apprehending a criminal) STOP…or I’ll say stop- again. I think it was George Carlin that said that.
Report Post »Marci
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:47amAh….the land of rampant moonbattery. What do they expect? They can’t hurt themselves, that will drive up the cost of their “free” healthcare.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:22pmYep, Gooch.
Policies and procedures replace brains.
Oh, and I‘d bet money some union had to make sure people didn’t “take their jobs!”
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 3:10pmshoot the bastards who made the rules and start over with someone who is sane in charge.
Report Post »yougottabekidding
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:49amStop taping! The arrests are coming for not following the law, but not the rioters they can do what ever want out fear!
Report Post »Odds?
Patriot Z
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 8:58pmwelcome to the nanny state UK. this IS what you wanted right? to be treated like wittle bitty kiddies….you want you act like kids, you wantall the ‘free stuff’ you get treated like them. just wait it gets better under socialism. the next phases as you are seeing is the beinnign of the communist agenda
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 8:46pmTake back the UK and clean anyway!!!
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 8:42pmSometimes people wake up,I hope it’s not to late for them. God bless those who try.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 8:34pmEngland is toast. It’s too late for them and they have no one to blame but themselves.
Report Post »We are close but we still have a little time left to vote the a-holes in Washington and in each state and city out of office.
If we fail…England is our future.
progressiveslayer
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 8:33pmMulticulturalism on full display and it’s going on here now so patriots I urge you to vigorously exercise your second amendment right.
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 8:30pmThe headline shoul read “Health & Safety Rules keep Londoners from picking up arms putting this dark tide down”. They need to clean the street in more ways than one.
Report Post »dcwu
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 8:25pmWhat zit brains. This has the odor of Cass Sunstein about it.
Report Post »ItsallaboutJesus
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 8:20pmDamn right it’s gone too far.
Report Post »Badler
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 8:15pm“You’ll hurt yourself cleaning up after yourself, let the state do it.” What a mindless foolishness. “You can’t carry guns to protect yourself, let the state do it.”
I love the UK, but they can keep that attitude over there.
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 8:11pmprobably couldnt allow them to clean becuase of the unions
Report Post »sister1_rm
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 8:11pmWait a minute. These are the descendants of the men and women who stood in the face of Hitler’s bombing raids on London. More historically their ancestors ruled a empire that spanned the globe and could once say with pride and honesty that the sun never set on England. Now they are reduced to sheep waiting to be fed, sheared, or slaughtered. Even worse and more destructive than the rioters is the bureaucracy that is enfeebling those who otherwise have the courage to do what’s right.
Report Post »gracentruth
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 8:18pmThat is the result of socialism (more currently and aptly described as marxism).
Report Post »republapig
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 8:09pmWhy not make the azzoles who made the mess clean it up? Then take away their welfare to pay for the damage.
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:42pmYes, everyone below the age of 30 and on the dole, get your butt down there to clean up.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 8:06pmThis would almost be funny if it weren’t so incredibly sad.
Londoners, did you feel an obligation to bring on the advent of “Big Brother”?
May God bless you, each and every one!
Report Post »spreadcommonsensenot pc
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 8:01pmPretty soon we wont even be able to wipe our B-U-T-T-S w/o union participation
Report Post »BO_Bill
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 8:00pmI can think of better ways to clean up London than picking up shattered pieces of glass or painting over graffiti.
Report Post »AB5r
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 8:00pmThere is something rather queer about a bunch of white liberals rushing in to clean up after the blacks burn down their neighborhood. They have that same sappy expression on their silly face that they have when giving the blacks welfare checks or other handouts for which they get no thanks. What a bunch of ridiculous clowns.
Report Post »Katydidnt
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:59pmI think the people who showed up viewed this as their home, the people who destroyed it believe there homeland is somewhere else. I think about that when I saw those people cheering for Mexico and booing the USA in that soccer match (?) in Los Angeles. People take care of and respect their own property, but they disrespect the property of others, especially if they view them as an enemy.
Report Post »ThorLoser
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:58pmFascinating. Perhaps they should stop the rioters due to health and safety concerns then.
Report Post »Karkedon
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:57pmIt all comes down to the family. Really, when you think of it all these problems come down to the family unit. Case in point, Fathers and Mothers of London do you know where your kids are? Do you know what they’re doing? All of these rioters have to go home somewhere and at some time. If my son were conveniently absent during these riots you better believe I’d confront him, and if he were living in my house he’d be under curfew. If you care about your kids don’t just tell them, care enough to get involved with them, find out what they’re doing. If you don’t there are thousands of anarchists, radical muslims, communists–you name it–those groups are all after your kids. That’s who they recruit. It’s up to you to care enough not allow them to go into that dark world where they will ruin their lives; don’t let them end up on the wrong side of a Flint Wolfe! It’s your choice: Christmas’s with your kids and their kids, or visiting their plot at the cemetery.
Report Post »calebgs83
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:53pmMulticulturalism + Marxism = Armageddon
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 8:00pmChaos on parade….up is down and down is up. Right is wrong and wrong is right. No common sense equals lunacy . They deserve everything they are getting in Europe. They are reaping what they have sown. Some lessons are harder to learn than others. They bought into socialism and multiculturalism so enjoy it. You wanted it..now you have it. OH…you don’t like it. Tough.
Report Post »skitrees
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:51pm“Burn, loot, kill….fine, we won’t stop you!!! But cleanup?! Gosh no!!” – this CAN’T be reality, can it?!
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:49pmIs this what big government brings, where citizens cannot clean up the aftermath of thugs and punks??? I find this completely disgusting.. the people in the UK have been brought down to nothing more than sheep grazing in a meadow.. waiting for whomever to clean up.. No wonder the children are up in arms, what is their world.. the UK I am sorry to say is reaping what they sowed or allowed sowed and we are not far behind! Someone please stop the Obama madness or we are next! Or has it already started at a county fair!
Report Post »Mapache
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:44pmIt seems to me to be a far cry from the heroic Londoners who faced down the Germans during the blitz raids of 1940.
Report Post »skitrees
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:52pmRight on the nose, Mapache!!
Report Post »Rightsofman
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 8:11pmWhen I saw the clips I thought of images of the Blitz. The difference is today it isn’t German bombs its home grown, self – inflicted liberal mindset that allowed the chaos to fulminate.
Report Post »Redistributor
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:38pmBroken glass as a H&S concern…nice! More like a union job.
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