The recent riots in Tottenham and the rest of London got me thinking – were they just the work of yobs out to cause some mayhem and get some free stuff or was there an undertone to them: people’s disaffection and alienation from the current government and it’s enforcers?

David Cameron once said “We’re all in this together“. He was referring to the current financial mess the country, Europe and indeed the World is in. He was, of course, spouting out crap to placate the masses for 10 minutes while he was busy making sure that a certain group of people (i.e. “the rich”) suffer less during the current financial crisis than the Middle and Lower classes (AKA “The Peasants”).

Let’s look at some figures, most off the top of my head: VAT is now at 20% (up from 17.5%), the cost of fuel has sky rocketing (despite the oh-so-generous 1p per litre reduction from the government) the NHS is gradually being killed off, energy bills are going up (despite energy companies making billions of pounds of profit every quarter), unemployment is still very very high and no one’s had a pay rise in donkey’s years.

The rich, however, keep getting richer. Any one with a brain can see the people taking the strain in this current mess are the people who can’t afford to, the people who will feel the pain of an extra 2.5% on their food shopping and will notice that their car now takes £70 to fill up instead of £50.

The government lets the people who provide us with the resources we need to survive to raise prices when there is no justification to do so – sure profits might be hit if British Gas don’t bump up their gas prices by 18% but let’s not be naive here – even if they didn’t they’d still see profits in the billions.

Politicians are letting this happen – when was the last time they stuck up for us? We elect them, we pay their salaries and the mortgages on their second homes, they are supposed to be our servants and yet they put their interests, and the interests of multi-national businesses who turn profits so big they could pay for thousands of people to retire in comfort and security ahead of us.

We, as those that work hard and don’t earn £100,000s a year, are second rate citizens. What we need is second to what the rich need, the rich who exploit our natural resources and then take money from us to use them not to cover costs but to turn massive profits.

I’m not so stupid as to say big business is bad because we clearly need it to put fuel in our cars and power our machines but big business should help us – we made them rich, why not help us out whilst we’re struggling and out off the price hikes for a few years until we’re all back on our feet? The simple answer to that is greed, the driving force in modern society. People can never have enough, even when they have more than they could spend in a decade of lifetimes they strive for more so they can be richer than there neighbour and better than their “friends”.

And this is why I think we’re going to see more riots, more strikes and more public outcry: with it becoming increasingly apparent that the government serves the rich and everything else is secondary the lower paid, lower class citizens will shout louder to get their voices heard. We are not stupid, we know how “fair” our country is, we know that we are not in this together and we’ve had enough of bearing the brunt of the troubles and hardships caused by those getting richer.

Please note: In no way do I condone the riots, thievery and arson are not ways to be heard. Peaceful protests and loud voices are enough to make a difference. The pen is mightier than the sword and all that.

I’d also like to say that while I refer to the police as the government’s enforcers this does not mean that they should be chastised for what the government are doing – the Police are doing their job and the Tories and Co. are doing their best to make the Police’s lives harder with big budget cuts and demoralising speeches.