They are hardly destroying the whole country, but seeing as how the media thinks the world revolves around London I can forgive you for thinking it.
Actually, the riots are spreading throughout several of the major cities across the whole of England.
Really?
Monday night I could have taken a ten minute walk and been involved in one of these "riots" that have spread across a few cities in England.
This riot consisted of a gang of kids in Northface and Berghaus clothing setting fire to wheelie bins and torching the odd car. This was supposedly the epicentre of the Liverpool riots, on Smithdown Road. The morning after I went to my friend's student house to help clean up the glass outside his place from all the broken bottles.
The way the news reported it you would have thought the city was being bombed. All the residents just cleaned up their area and got on with it. No biggy.
Areas of London may have been badly hit but the place is massive, it's hardly as though the entire city is ablaze.