out in my community on Sunday night, and would have taken any steps necessary to defend my home and my community. If the police fail to do so, as they clearly failed in recent nights, then the community step in. The police have progressively surrendered the streets over the last 20 years and this is the result. My wife was caught out in Ealing on Monday, and the one cab she coould find was bottled as it attempted to take her to safety. No police in sight, mob rule. Dont give me the usual bull about youth centre closures. This was anarchy, and the rule of the mob. The Guardian needs now to stand up for the many poor but law abiding members of the community who have seen their neighbourghoods destroyed and are afraid to go to sleep at night. Where is the concern for them??????? Setting the issue of violence aside, where looting is concerned it must be hard for those involved to see the theft of trainers or electrical goods from shops as a major piece of immorality in a society where those at the top are seen effectively blackmailing the country out of billions of our money to bail out their thoughtless greed, the result of nothing less than a gambling addiction. And not only are the gluttonous elite allowed to get away with this extortion, but they are encouraged to do it with a government that would like to cut their taxes to help them