Okay, it's not — at least, not today. But goodness gracious, it could be.
Tory Prime Minister David Cameron has had to rush back from his August holiday to give press conferences and get all umbrage-y about the riots that are racking his capital city. But heck, you'd get umbrage-y too, if you were a rich guy denied his velvety nights in Tuscany. Especially after the summer Cameron's had.
Of course, never mind that the Independent Police Complaints Commission has formally found that the young man whose death at the hands of the cops started the riots did not fire first at the officers who killed him. (Gosh, what a surprise!) And never mind that the U.K. is in the middle of a draconian domestic-spending austerity program that hard-hearted conservatives love but that invariably inflicts tremendous hardships on the invisible underserved.
That's not an excuse for all the looting, of course. But we're just sayin'.
Grover Norquist, teabaggers, and all the weak-kneed Republicans who can't demand that wealthy Americans pay taxes: Take note.
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