seeing today is caused by the austerity measures passed last year and more on this i'm joined by victoria jones international correspondent talk radio news victoria welcome thank you very much great to have you with us first of all i got an email just like twenty thirty minutes ago from a friend of mine who lives in the u.k. who said the who had heard my radio show today and he said. the conversation we had just kind of my general rant and he said the extent to which you're suggesting in the us. here in the u.k. these riots are coming about because of the austerity measures most brits would push back on that he said just like most americans back in this back in the sixty's when watts and detroit were burning we wouldn't have acknowledged that it had to do with the inequality that was solved a year or so later i started to get results of the great society winner of the great society i think there's two things going on i think there is definitely some pushback because some brits the just not happy fans of this kind of lawlessness people who were just small shopkeepers a florist had his shop torch