Just got back home after spending the day helping my uncle clear up what remains of his shop following lost nights looting free for all.

My uncle came to the UK in 1963 from Cyprus and opened a small grocery shop in Tottenham, he worked hard and lived alone for eight years before being able to raise the money to bring my aunt over.  After six more years and no holidays, working 12 hours a day for 7 days a week he was able to pay for my father to also join him.  Nobody in our family has ever claimed a penny in benefits, we have worked hard and paid our taxes.  My father went on to open a second shop in Wembley and my uncle began recently to talk about retirement.

Last night all that changed, the shop is now an empty shell, looted in less than 20 minutes while my uncle was told any resistance would see him with a knife in the throat.  He knows the boys who did it, he sees them every day, has seen them for years.  The boys who would shoplift from him when they were younger, would walk past his fruit displays outside and think it nothing of taking what they wanted when they were teenagers, the boys who spend their days dealing drugs in the alley near his shop.  He's never known them work, never seen them make any contribution to the local community and yet they have BMW and Range Rovers (my uncle has a ten year old Ford Mondeo). 

The people who came to my uncles aid last night ?  The Turkish owners of a kebab shop nearby !  Animosity between Turks and Greeks is well known and they have never spoken before but it was the owner and his three sons who were the first ones to rush to his aid and with the threats from some big knives frighten them off before they torched the place.

Now we have a situation where the black community is once again isolated in its own community, hated by others who despise them for their drug dealing, their routine violence, their gangs and their unwillingness to work.

I realise this comes over like a speech from some BNP bonehead but I'm a 22 year old Anglo Greek immigrant advisor and consider myself a Socialist

I have no answers but I know I'm angry and I don't blame the police, the Tories or the bankers I blame the fuckers who frightened my uncle to death last night and destroyed his lifes work