700 riot victims still waiting for compensation

After last year’s riots Prime Minister David Cameron promised businesses to “get up and running quickly.” However, there are still over 700 London victims waiting for their claims for compensation to be looked at. David Lammy, MP for Tottenham in which much of the rioting took place, claims that not much has been done since March. During a debate in the House of Commons next Monday he will call on the government to act. Some people have not been paid at all; people who did get financial compensation often received half the amount they claimed.
In London 707 of 3,427 payments have been passed, but on a national level half of the claimants are still waiting for compensation.

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David Cameron promised to help the victims of last year’s riots quickly and because of this promise he should have. In my opinion politicians promise too much and act too little. Cameron should have found out what the costs would and if he was able to get that amount of money on short notice before he promised to get businesses running quickly. Because of his promise people trusted in the government and waited for their help. If Cameron had not expressed this promise, business owners might have searched for other solutions. In the meantime valuable time has passed by and some businesses turned out not to be able to survive both the rioting and the waiting for compensation.