A Little Perpective

Highest estimated cost of riots: £100m.

Total MP expenses bill (2007): £87.6m
Tax spent on Libyan intervention: £1 Billion
Tax money spent in Iraqi conflict: £4.5 billion
Tax money spent on Afghan conflict (up until 2007): £7 billion
Tax payers bill for banking crisis: £131 Billion
Tax Avoidance by Vodafone: £6 Billion
Tax avoidance in 2010 by richest people in UK: £7 Billion

Perspective: priceless.