The Mail has learned that thugs are responsible for threatening to smash up branches of McDonalds and Starbucks.

Has the world gone mad? Thugs are threatening to smash up branches of McDonalds and Starbucks with impunity. Hanging is surely too good for these no good scum. Why doesn’t the Government use all the money it has stolen from the hardworking families of Britain in stealth taxes to make amends for the situation. Probably because they are too busy lining their pockets!

The Mail spoke to Jim Davidson, who said "I grew up in the 1930s with an unemployed father. He did not riot. He got on his bike and looked for work, and he went on looking until he found it."