[Margaret Pilkington]

The top one percent can go out and buy the goods they want. The rioters stole the goods, and in the pursuit of designer trainers and such like material things, put lives in danger.
I know your post was probably tongue in cheek(or at least I think it was).
Some of the rioters came from homes and backgrounds where they could afford to buy the goods too(privileged back grounds).....so it wasn't down to poverty.
I really don't think it was political either. It was a case of opportunism......it was still criminal opportunism though.