London Riots 2020

Well, we had the inevitable clashes yesterday in London. It was a bit sad and frustrating to watch the 'football lad' violence as it didn't really help anything and simply conceded the moral high ground to the other side. It was really like Christmas come early for the statue-destroying activists - and the remain Remoaners it must be said too, who are essentially one and the same it seems. They spent the day gleefully tweeting footage of the 'alt right' idiots and hooligans. Feeling smug in the belief that those few hundred trouble causers somehow represent the millions of normal Brits that are aghast at the destruction of their property and history.

Why do I get the feeling these people are enjoying watching our country go to ruin?

Of course, the same people completely ignored the violence committed by the BLM and Antifa activists. Some of which was arguably more serious (knife attacks for instance). They also failed to make note of the clear difference in police reaction. When statues were being defaced a few days ago the police were submissively 'taking the knee'. This time they'd come prepared in full riot gear.

It was all pretty bad though. So no side can come out of yesterday with any real sense of virtue. Hopefully it's not a sign of things to come. It is a real dilemma though. If people were trying to pull down a statue in my home town and I wasn't confident the police would do their job and protect it then I think I too would go and stand guard. These are important pieces of our heritage that we won't get back. Of course, I wouldn't be yobbish about it. However, how can you stop yourself from being tarred with the same brush as other yobbish people who do turn up - be they just general idiots or agent provocateurs of some description.

We really need an intelligent solution. Usually in civilised countries we solve this problem by employing police to do this job 😅 So it would be nice if we could just get back to that.

On a lighter note I doodled a little image of Captain Cook last night.

It doesn't look like him in the slightest, more like some 17th century smuggler, but his face at least captures the 'fed up' mood of the nation. Watching our history get smashed to smithereens.