Dem Africans gonna get you, muddaf***er

Holy crap, I was watching Newsnight yesterday and saw the report on gang violence in Edmonton.

Edmonton, adjoining Tottenham, Walthamstow and the North Circular is a grisly place at the best of the times, but it's been made even more grim by the addition of armed gangs knifing each other left, right and centre.

Anyway, the BBC report focused on a gang called ‘Dem Africans’ - largely young chaps with origins in Congo, Angola, Sierra Leone and other places where life is a bit cheaper than it might be.

Three of their number have been killed this year - in a conflict with rival gangs.

Incredibly depressing stuff. What’s the sense in escaping a bloody awful warzone of a country to end up getting knifed in a khazi like Edmonton?

Particularly enjoyed the police chief facing the question about whether his offices worked all that hard in investigating gang deaths. He didn’t seem all that convincing in his answer ('yes we do').