DEM not gonna CON dis NATION: Rolling UK politics in the short-lived post-Murdoch era

police are behind the times, this is the blackberry messenger revolution.

http://ishackneyriotingyet.com/

He is checking when the John Maus poll closes.

hey guys maybe a hipster will be hurt in these hackney riots!!111 lol! no doubt they started over a fixie bike!!!!

Oh god, even Diane Abbott is using the appalling "kicking off in..." tweetform now. ;_;

Expecting some enlightened chants from Everton fans when they go to White Hart Lane this weekend.

"In your Tottenham slums"

"Is this Toxteth in disguise?"

5.04pm: Our correspondent Vikram Dodd reports that Scotland Yard has introduced special powers in four areas, allowing officers to stop and search suspects without reasonable suspicion. The powers are contained in section 60 of the Public Order Act. The areas are Lambeth, Haringey, Enfield and Waltham Forest. The section 60 powers were invoked around midnight on Sunday following a second night of serious disorder to hit London.

Yeah that's gonna go down well.

serhiy rebrov got there first

tbh theres nothing police can do in this instance that will be perfect

surely there are enough ppl for the police to worry abt without hassling randoms

BBC News just called people smashing up a bus and looting cardboard from a van "protesters" and "demonstrators". FFS.

In Whitechapel, Sainsbury's staff intent on causing a riot by closing the store now.

is that true james? i was going to go there after work. TIME TO RIOT.

sorry i said riot, i meant "reluctantly buy vegetables in waitrose".

sort of bewildering how the police just stand around watching shops and buses being smashed up

Yep they're not letting anyone in.

girl on BBC News just now:

"maybe they are proving a point, that we don't know what the point is that they are trying to prove"

you'd almost think the policy have a vested interest in making black kids look bad

letting ppl smash shit up then going indiscrimately postal seems to be the 2k11 way

win-win!

Girl on BBC News doing a creditable job of explaining why Tottenham was different.

policy, police ehhh

BBC helicopter has run out of fuel

Big win here for Whitechapel Road Tesco Metro.

Apparently Kurdish and Turkish shopkeepers in Green Lanes and Stoke Newington have got the knives and baseball bats in.

is it wrong to feel a twinge of local pride in that?

Not at all. Good luck to them.

Wouldn't mess with those guys

lewisham lulz now according to sky

i like Dorian's line here, which echoes my own feelings about, say, the 7/7 bombers. they weren't warriors, they were destructive, violent knobheads.

Lewisham is home to Europe's largest police station, so good luck with that one. Twitter is only confirming two blokes throwing yams at one another though.

It always starts with yams.

theresa may confirms that there is "no excuse for looting and thuggery" six times in a row

TheresaMayBot successfully running her "riot response" app.

The difference between a community exploding in outrage on Saturday and 50-100 goons running up and down Mare Street today is depressing.

Definitely going down in Lewisham now. Starting to wish I didn't live three doors down from a police station.

Reports of another police blockade in Elephant and Castle? If Brixton is closed and Elephant off limits, how the heck am I gonna get home now?

Hilarious shot of some kids trying and failing to batter in the window of Ladbrokes on Mare Street. Get the feeling that selling off the playing fields was part of Thatcher's long term plan.

If Elephant is blockaded that's half of SE London out. I'd get the train to Streatham if you possibly can.

DC, did you hear the five police vans that went down Theobalds Road about 15 minutes ago?

Kate, can you go via Clapham or Northern Line to Tooting and then bus?

Carhartt outlet between Mare Street and London Fields being raided now.

Angel Sainsbury's and Waitrose were both closed when I went to buy some balsamic vinegar. WHEN WILL THE MADNESS END???

Harrow town centre evacuated, people kicked out of the cinema halfway through films etc.

how to get to well street? take bus from mile end or from bethnal green? am thinking that walking may be the best actually

xp If all the reports I'm reading about tube closures are true then I don't know how anyone's getting home Kate. I don't see the logic of packing the buses and turfing everyone onto the streets.

We're at the panic, confusion and misinformation stage then.

seeing such a variety of witness tweets, from people saying that it's about benefits/cuts/EMA to people seeing obvious opportunistic looting. really don't want to ascribe any singular motive to any of this.

This is reminding me oddly of 7/7 and trying to plan routes to get home around bombsites, except instead of terrorist strikes, it's the police barricading off no-go zones.

Tracer, the 277 is still running up Grove Road. At least they were 15-20 minutes ago.

Angel Sainsbury's and Waitrose were both closed when I went to buy some balsamic vinegar. WHEN WILL THE MADNESS END???

― Neil S, Monday, 8 August 2011 17:00 (6 minutes ago)

Probably should use glaze anyway.