Having just listened to the latest Camerontheball proclamations, that the inevitability of his knee-jerk policies will lead to a worsening of anti-social behaviour is becoming increasingly manifest.
Just take:
- A family test will be applied to all policies.
Doesn't really mean anything, does it? Is it to find out how the policies will affect families? How? Really can't imagine this.
Then there's:
- National Citizen Service for all 16-year-olds.
This already takes place amongst young people by an astronomically higher proportion of youth than you would find amongst unemployed, disengaged, benefit-dependent youngsters. You just can't establish a policy of one size fits all according to the lowest common denominator, especially when there are lots of our youth contributing to the good of society: working in charity shops; raising funds for the homeless; befriending the lonely and the disinherited.
Do we have a louche society? Well, it's all relative. We're all individuals and the meddling of government by trying to castigate all in society as being in need of monitoring and rectifying in some way is fatuous to say the least. Greed and a lack of policing fired the riots along with an alacritous response by techno-savvy yooves to Blackberry messaging.
Simple.
Cameron's not responsible: the parents of the rioters are!
