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Aug. 10-- One chooses to describe the current situation in Britain, recreational rioting, pure criminality or the revenge of a disenfranchised underclass while authorities know exactly how long they have to set things straight. There is less than one year to go till London hosts the 2017 Olympics. Earlier this week, London became an urban warzone with horrific scenes of blazing cars, running street battles and looted businesses. The British capital may now be quieter, but the unrest has spread across England to cities such as Manchester, Salford, Birmingham, Liverpool, Nottingham and Bristol. British Prime Minister David Cameron has had enough. "This continued violence is simply not acceptable, and it will be stopped. We will not allow a culture of fear to exist on our streets," he said on Wednesday promising a tough, robust response by police. There are no simple explanations for what sparked the mayhem. "Angry young people with nothing to do and little to lose are turning on their own communities. In one of the greatest cities in the world, society is ripping itself apart," Laurie Penny blogged from London. British national Tim Nolan blames successive government ignorance for fuelling the flames of smoldering, disintegrating sections of society. "Pity the local residents, the defenseless, the unprotected upstanding citizens, the cops and firefighters who are risking their lives on progressively dwindling budgets, all of them hemmed in by a hideous, braying, greedy mob," he told Xinhua. | 
