Whilst I generally agree with socially progressive policies, it's absurd to conflate hardship and disenfranchisement with the sort of behaviour seen across Ealing, London and UK. These are not people who are angry or oppressed, with their fancy trainers and mobile phones. They are feral scum who would rob, batter, burn and murder the rest of us, given half a chance. They have now discovered the opportunity exists and an MO for exploiting it. Yes, there are reasons, many with long histories that go back to the 1970s's (I would cite Thatcher's deliberate creation of an excluded underclass as a particularly myopic direction. NuLabour then institutionalised deprivation without attempting to repair it). But reasons are not excuses, this is all academic and debatable. We are where we are, and you may as well talk politics at this point as argue with a pack of wolves.We are now in a very dangerous place. Politicians will be able to sell their respective bigotries to an emasculated and fearful population, policing could easily become oppressive. There is in UK a great tendency to pen the sheep ever tighter in order to present the illusion that the wolves are being dealt with. All politicians now bemoan the lack of responsibility but have spent the last 30 years eroding our individual autonomy one way or another. We have let them do so, for a lazy and ordered life. We expect they and the police to look after us. This clearly has not worked, we cannot rely on them, only ourselves, our neighbours. That is the place to start, not more of the same.
Tony Sleep ● 5352d