BRITAIN ON THE BRINK

The widespread economic recession across Eurozone is being manifested in Britain in the form of largescale violence which at the outset flared up in London and later spread outside the city engulfing the whole country. The murder of an Afro-Caribbean youth Mark Dugan in Tottenham lit the spark which turned into wildfire leading to massive looting by anti-social elements across Britain.
While Britain was on the boil David Cameroon, British Prime Minister was away from the country spending summer vacation. Teresa May, British Home Secretary was also away spending vacation.
Immediately upon listening to the alarm bells both cut short their vacation and returned to the home country. While various cities were burning the police couldn’t enforce law and order and it was only after Cameroon’s return the former was given a blank cheque to take on the violators of law. Cameroon also threatened to bring in Army to suppress the rebellion if police couldn’t tackle the situation.
The root cause of the unrest is nothing but the economic turmoil that the country finds itself in. Massive austerity measures were testing the patience of citizens, spending cuts in various sectors leading to turn life into a hell for majority sowed the seeds of conflagration. In the mayhem that followed more than five persons were done to death still it cannot be said for certain that the volatile situation in Britain has returned to normality.
However David Cameroon rejects the reason pointed out by majority that economic reasons are the root causes for the flare up. He in turn puts the entire blame on culture. True to a certain extent. But relying on this argument alone is superficial. People of Afro-Caribbean origin are the worst sufferers due to racial discrimination. But that is only a contributing cause not the sole cause.
It must be remembered that the entire Eurozone is in the grip of economic reason and the basic reasons in all such cases is economic situations. That in turn provides grist for the breakout of all other calamities. For example the basic causes behind the Arab spring were/are corruption, massive unemployment, famine, malnutrition to list out a few. The embers of unrest lay dormant for a long time awaiting chances for turning into massive conflagration engulfing the whole region. From Tunisia it began. Later it spread to Egypt, Libya, Syria, Bahrain and the embers have not yet died down. Some countries like Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as a pre-emptive measure extended incentives to citizens to avert a slow-down. The largest democracy in the world India is poised to enter a period of confrontation between civil society groups with the support of majority of citizens and government are gearing up against for the pervading corruption spreading across the country.
In Britain the recent violence is the aftermath of widening gulf between the haves and have-nots. And it reflected in the form of racial violence that we are witnessing today.