Their funding is cut so they can't stay in education and jobs are being cut (or at least youth unemployment is high) so they can't go to work.
I suspect that you're talking about EMA? While it is a good idea in theory, in reality what do many pupils spend the EMA money on though? I'm sorry but ever since its introduction the EMA has been a gimmick which had been ill-thought through. They were intended for purchases of educational equipment however many surveys have shown that a significant majority of young people, especially from under-privileged backgrounds who have no aspiration to achieve anything in life, take it as £30 a week pocket money to spend as they wish. It would have been better utilised for the actual schools to decide what the money should be spent on according to curriculum needs and distribute the actual goods rather than hard cash itself.
Compulsory education to the age of 18 should have been introduced years ago to alleviate such problems however the government for years had no interest in that.
But they didn't choose their parents, did they? It's a deeper problem than that, a product of British Society.
It is. This culture of solely placing the emphasis on me, me, me started decades ago and no government has ever tried to reverse such a trend. What we're now seeing is a generation that have grown up under those influences passing these characteristics to their off-springs. Don't blame the kids. The kids can only behave as well as they have been taught how to.
Most employers seem to prefer Eastern Europeans who work long hours for the minimum wage. Labour's uncontrolled immigration policy has a lot to answer for in this regard
Yes, Labour did mess up the immigration system, however people coming to the UK from inside the EU is not something our government can control, as long as we are part of it. You're presenting two non-consequential points as if they are somewhat linked.
The whole thing is an extreme example of what I always maintain. Too many people know their rights, not their responsibilities. And a whole industry has grown up, funded ultimately by the taxpayer, to re-enforce their views.
Just listening to some woman from the Odu Dua Housing association giving her tact approval for the behaviour of these ferral scum on BBC news tonight was an eye-opener in how these people manage to keep their sense of grievance and entitlement going, whilst ignoring their responsibilities.
Nothing that is done will ever be good enough, as there is a permanent industry in creating the feeling of victimisation.
Anything bad happens - it's always someone else's fault.
The one thing that a lot of commentators have got right (but not in the way they think) is that this is society reaping what it has sown.
But not in terms of oppressing anyone (which is what the usual suspects maintain), but in terms of allowing ANYBODY to try to market themselves as a special interest group and entitled to special consideration.
I agree wholeheartedly with this, and in bold is what I think hits the nail on the head regarding the current events.
seems the MET are aksing retired officers to come back and give them a hand.
I don't understand why they didn't call for reinforcement earlier. They have no control of the streets and that's plain for everyone to see. They are playing with people's livelihood and it is not surprising that a large number of people don't think that the police really care. I know that the front-line officers are doing a marvellous job, however at a strategic level this whole affair is a spectacular failure by the government and the police and shows how unprepared this country really is to handle emergency situations like this. What if a terrorist sees this opportunity and decides that London 2012 presents an ideal chance to cause havoc? Will our government be ready for what could potentially happen? From what I have seen in the last few days, I have grave concerns and strong reservations.
also it seems residents have taken up arms against these mobs:
Good on them. It's in times like these that the true community spirit is demonstrated.
I wonder if we will see the right wing paries like the BNP saying that this is all due to illegal immagrents?
My money is on this event featuring highly on their election propaganda at the next opportunity, and be used by EDL as an excuse to justify their actions.
Hariet Harman is talking sh*te about job centre closures causing all this.
Err. Anyone actually listens to her?
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Shame people can't do that anymore
They can. Many just don't want to.
But something has to happen, the tide has to turn otherwise this country is going to be wrecked.
There will be a breaking point, the threshold when passed all communities are united to take the law into their own hands because the justice system is not doing what it should, or perceivedly so. This presents real danger and a distinct possibility of the society degenerating into chaos. I'm concerned that we're not far from that point, unless the government acts with some backbone and rule with an iron fist. It's not a question of trying to sort out afterwards and when to do it. The time is now and the yobs must not win.
