Pete Doherty (Photo: Joanne Ostrowski / Live4ever)
Libertines and Babyshambles songwriter Pete Doherty has been giving his thoughts on last month’s rioting and looting in London, describing some of the actions of those involved as ‘insane’.
When speaking to Blagsound.com, Doherty described the ‘whole system’, from politicians through to the rioters, as ‘corrupt’, and claimed the current consumer-orientated world had been ‘asking for it’.
“It was almost like a magnified version of things you see every Saturday night in Hackney, just wild kids lashing out. It was pure anger,” he said. “You’ve got politicians who fill in their expenses behind closed doors on their account sheets and then you’ve got kids in broad daylight fighting police and attacking shops. The whole system is corrupt right the way through.”
“What got me was the people getting into Ladbrokes leaping up on walls and trying to rip off the LCDs. It was insane. It’s not like it’s not on though. It’s almost like the perfect reaction to the consumers in society that we live in. They’ve been asking for it. It was terrifying though.”
Doherty’s former Libertines bandmate Carl Barat recently rebuffed tabloid reports which had suggested a re-start of their 2010 reunion was imminent, telling his followers on Twitter the stories were ‘complete fabrication’.
