LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday said “nothing is off the table” to regain control of British streets — telling the nation that rubber bullets had been authorized and water cannons were on standby after violence and looting hit Manchester, Birmingham and other British cities.
More than at any time since the riots began, Cameron talked tough. He said it was clear something was “sick” within British society, calling the crisis “a moral problem as much as a political problem.”
In an effort to track down offenders, he vowed to publish images of rioters captured by closed circuit cameras, and not to “let any phony concerns about human rights get in the way.”
… The YouGov poll published by the Sun newspaper on Wednesday showed 90 percent of Britons calling for the use of water cannons, 77 percent supporting the deployment of the army and 33 percent saying police should be permitted to fire live ammunition at rioters.
