NY Times Reporter Suggests ‘Cuts in Spending and Services’ by Conservatives Led to London Riots

Ravi Somaiya, reporter for the New York Times London bureau, suggested “deep cuts in social services” on the part of the Conservative-led coalition government and “social deprivation” (whatever that means) bore some blame for the riots and looting that wrecked neighborhoods in London. Shops and flats were stormed and burned in the wake of a police shooting of a gang suspect in the London neighborhood of Tottentham.

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