In London are the rich and poor living on top of one another?

Yes they do one of the locations that suffered looting was Clapham Junction, millionaires like Gordon Ramsay for example live minutes from some of the most deprived social housing estates in London in this part of Battersea. The rioters' grievances are not legitimate. They are symptomatic of a country that had a government for 13 years that gave and gave and gave to a class of people that now do not work, have no will to work, do not see why they should work, are allowed to self-diagnose illness, disability etc, see no value in education at all and yet still feel hard done by as the state houses them, feeds them, panders to them etc.

Rich and poor seem to leave more side by side each other just as seebohm rowntree discovered around about the time of liberal reform. Resentment builds over time till pop like a fizzy can of coke that's been shook far to much. Although majority of the rioters are just common thugs it seems, the attacks seem to be happening to rich expensive stores like Sony,currys and a baby shop got ransacked but it was only selling Ralph Lauren and Dior baby clothes in a seemingly poor area. But who knows a lot of businesses have also been innocent like a carpet shop in croyden. Division really only get things worst for the poor. But I guess the biggest reason for upsets is because of the general attitude of the people here in Britain there's the poor that turn to scum and the middle who pay for everything and then think there better than everyone when the become rich (which causes resentment) and the rich who avoid paying for everything (more resentment) Resentment grows on these people because they see the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. So after that people just don't give a sh't. And taxes get higher and the goverment doesnt care for anything but more money and more finance lack of care from government officials leads to even more resentment. So there you go my view on things. All in all the British attitude sinks to high heaven. The I don't care, I'm better than you, I want, look at what I've got. This all stem as far back to margaret Thacher a middle class women who destroy what it meant to be a British working man and this is the generation of kids left over from the generation she fu@k

Yes it is true there are really poor people living in poor housing and then you have over the road or around the corner rich people living in luxury property.I suppose it must make some people resentful.Even so it not a reason for the rioters to do what they did over the past few days.There are a lot of poor people who would not dream of breaking the law and loot and start fires.

You know quite well that the Conservatives are trying to get the have nots out of london Rent caps and so on

These so called have nots tend to vote for anyone but the Torys

There I Have said it them the facts

Only if they are doing missionary instead of doggy