This was not protest, it was crime and it was done with such impunity, it begs the question, "who raised these people to behave this way?" The answer is, the state raised them. More specifically, the "Welfare State" of socialist dreams.
Top flight objective soundbite, that... :lol:
It houses them - badly. It educates them - badly.
I think that's rather condemnatory of our good school system, not amazing, but good. I'd agree with it as relfects social housing, though it seems odd sentiment from a blurb which is distinctly rightist in nature. Are they asking for MORE spending on public housing? We've never recovered from the last right-wing approach to social housing, the right-to-buy/prevention of building idiocy.
It doesn't even bother to police their drug taking and dealing very much
What? We spend an absolutely absurd amount of money policing drug use and sale. Masses. Far, far, far too much and tie up far too much police time on it.
There are thousands of decent people in Tottenham who work hard, try to do the best for their kids and who are no doubt appalled by what happenned. But like the 27 children who want to learn, but who can't because of the disruptive behaviour of three trouble-makers at the back of the class, the criminals who rioted and looted on Saturday cowed them in to submission.
Can't argue with that.
If you want people to behave irresponsibly, take responsibility away from them. The Welfare State has been taking responsibility away from people for decades and it has led us here, to the rioting and looting we saw in Tottenham and elsewhere over the weekend."
Well lets look around the world at the social problems mentioned above that nations suffer and see how they relate to who's got the larger welfare states and who's got the smaller ones. I'll wager the evidence will not support this assertion.
