Tuesday 9 August 2011

2011 Riots: The BIG brush up

It's clean-up time – during the post mortem of last night's riots this picture started doing the rounds on Twitter.

It shows up to a hundred people armed with brushes, mops and dust pans ready to sweet up the mess left behind by the rioters.

Celebrities and journalists have tweeted that their faith in humanity has been restored with Piers Morgan describing these people as the REAL Great Britain.

Meanwhile Sky News did a decent interview with former professional footballer Mickey Ambrose who is an ambassador for The Prince's Trust.

He told Sky News he felt the rioting was also, in large part, due to an absence of parenting.

"There's excuses all the time being made I feel, you know, (like) our children don't get opportunities, they're bored," he said.

"The question I want to ask parents right now is, where was your child on Saturday night, Sunday night and last night?

"How can parents allow their children to be going out at 9-10 o'clock. We saw pictures... of children aged 10, 11 involved in this anarchy."

"I think parents have a responsibility.

"I can tell you now, there was no way my mum would have let me out at 9-10 o'clock at (age) 13, 14 - so it begins at home.

"The schools and the education side of matters, are trying to educate out children in this country. But these are 13, 14-year-old kids."

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