So, any predictions for the next few weeks?
I can't see more rioting, now it has been a week and there has been a glorious coming together of Britain according to the press.
The UK Chancellor seems to be on a speedrun to rinse the pensioners, and Landlords are dumping housing stock or ceasing leases as quickly as possible to avoid the new expensive terms they would have to work under. The Government is swiftly introducing measures, like increasing the already among the highest in the world inheritance tax on the working and lower middle classes, so I don't think they're going to be short of capital to fund new projects.
I presume some sort of trust and safety committee will be formed as soon as Parliment is recalled. Various recommendations will include reforming schools to promote anti racist material, digital ID that isn't called digital ID, perhaps some sort of Internet passport that can be revoked for those who don't behave online or who read unsuitable material.
I think it's probably too early for a general amnesty for all current illegal migrants in the UK, that will probably come a bit later into their term. But it will come, the building push is for them.
One factor I haven't heard much about, but I will be interested to see is more affluent 2nd and 3rd gen migrant behaviour. I travel a lot for work, and most of the people I work with or are freinds of are dual nationals or married a citizen of somewhere else.
The ones with another western background based in the UK, some of who have never lived elsewhere are talking about moving to their parent/grandparents country of origin. Not because of the riots specifically, but more a sense of unease with how things are going. A couple because they don't like some of the financial changes coming in as well.
Could be brave words and an overly dramatic response, some of these people don't even speak the language of their second or third country, but I wonder how many might.