"no prime minister who put troops on the streets of this country would ever live it down,"
Maybe True.
That said with twitter and facebook this battle, kids included, is unprecedented.
You tell the shop owners, home owners, shoppers, tourists, restaurant goers and locals directly affected by these scum, that they should rely on the struggling police as the only answer?
Did you watched Sham Sharma on Sky news? An Asian shop owner in Wolverhampton who clearly works hard and built his business up. He expects his children to work hard for their future. His business his ruined. I guess he'd have like the army around tonight as he said the police stood watching his shop gutted by dozens of ****e....