Respect and self discipline is needed.

As I have already stated it is far too simplistic and easy to blame the blacks for the looting. There were black and white looting and there were also black and white not looting. If we are going to kick anyone out of the country I would kick out all the bad and keep the good. The bad is made up of all races and so is the good.

I just wonder if anyone in government will think of doing a social-economic survey of all rioters who go through the courts? From the reports I have seen the age range is from 9 – 40. Some were unemployed but some were in up market employment. Many were under educated but some were doing A level and degrees. One teenage girl was our Olympic ambassador.

Will someone ask the question, why? I have been mulling it over and I believe that it is the sort of younger person that we as a society are allowing to develop. It is what I call the “am I bovvered” or “yeah whatever” type of attitude. It stems from one parent families perhaps with 3 children sharing the same mother but each with a different father. One mother cannot instil respect and self discipline on 3 children on her own, it has always been a team effort of two parents.

Did anyone see David Starkey on Newsnight on Friday. Link here:

I was gobsmacked and I bet the BBC were too as it was live. I don’t agree 100% with what he says but he is closer to the mark than anyone else I think. He goes on about young whites adopting black Jamaican culture including the chav speak. I actually think it is young blacks trying to sound more white and young whites meeting them half way and sounding half black to produce a dialect that is slow with every syllable pronounced so e.g. “You kna what I mean mon it is typ-i-cal ov ma sit-u-at-ion”.

Actually black people from working and middle class backgrounds don’t speak like that. Yes they still have a distinct African accent but it is nothing like this chav speak we hear from either black or white.

We have allowed an underclass to develop amongst our young that some are now parents too, bringing their children up the same way they were brought up. We have it in my town but because it is a small town the problem is small. Multiply that a 100 times for a city and you can see the results.

The answer lies somewhere in the fact that if you are brought up in poverty you are likely to be under educated. If you are under educated you are likely to end up in poverty. The solution therefore lies in education and family values. Respect for others and self discipline.

Why the riots became escalated all over the country was our 24 hour live news coverage along with social networking. Everyone saw that the police got the tactics wrong on the first night where they stood off hoping to catch them later from CCTV. This gave the impression that you can get away with it and if you think you can get away with it you are more likely to do it.