It was inevitable, I don't now why you are surprised. There are always some who will take the opportunity for mischief - and the police really should have been better prepared given the strength of their intell.
Compared with about 250,000 it was a tiny majority of the mindless scum.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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Fortnums - a group of us used to walk round to look(only) at things each year when we visited the Summer Exhibition at the R.A.
One year a member of our group who had recently become a bee-keeper, told one of the assistants in charge of his department that his 'honey had gone off' !! in some of the jars !!
Oh dear...
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Lincolnshire Born and Bred
It seems in attacking the posh peoples' store the idiots chose the wrong target. Fortnum and Mason is ultimately owned by the Garfield Weston Foundation, a registered charity that donated £40 million last year, including several millions to cancer research.
I remember the old joke about the 'Lady' who shopped in the Queen's grocers for 1/2lb tomatoes, when asking the price they replied £4.00, she said 'Here's a fiver,Young Man', keep the change as I trod on a grape whilst browsing'