geoffrey_prime
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Re: Correct me if I'm wrong, but
Oct 23, 2011, 02:15
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Hey, make your own points and apply your latitudes. I, the "idiot", like you, am expressing my own point of view.
If you don't agree...I can handle it.
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sanshee
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Edited Oct 24, 2011, 16:16
Re: Correct me if I'm wrong, but
Oct 24, 2011, 16:06
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Anyone notice the official line re the 'riot stats'?
Seems 35% of those convicted were 'out of work' which means that 65%, a big hunk of the majority, were in work.
EDIT: Of course, the 35% figure was the one emphasised on 'the news'.
So is it the 'feral employed' we have to fear now?
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PMM
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Re: Correct me if I'm wrong, but
Oct 25, 2011, 20:27
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Quite the opposite is the case as far as I can see. If 10% of the population is unemployed, and 30% of the rioters were unemployed, then the unemployed are statistically punching well above their weight.
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sanshee
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Edited Oct 25, 2011, 21:19
Re: Correct me if I'm wrong, but
Oct 25, 2011, 21:07
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Well those court figures are just the 'facts of the day' it seems.
Take facts as you will I suppose.
Another one they trumpeted was that a fifth prosecuted were aged between 10 and 17, so unreportedly that means 4/5ths were what we'd call 'adults'.
Yet all the concern remember back then was about 'feral youth' etc, and all the camera shots were equally as impeccable.
EDIT: I know too statistically more people in the UK are adults than are chuldren, but the 'grand narrative of things' ain't my concern here - it's media inference.
:-/
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