What’s going wrong with Britain?

[Gotno Gizmo]

You may have seen or heard, as I have the news of rioting and looting going on in British cities during recent nights. The British politicians have been recalled from their holidays so that they can debate what should be done. The British Prime Minister (David Cameron), on his return, made a statement in which he has said "looting is criminal". Whilst this is absolutely obvious to most of us, it must be remembered that British Parliamentarians have difficulty identifying criminality, inasmuch as they did not know that falsifying their expenses was criminal! David Cameron has also said that these rioters/ looters will receive the full weight of the law. It is difficult to know what that means as British prisons and all other forms of custody/ detention are already overloaded. Will they start building concentration camps into which to put these mostly teenage children and younger people?

So what is going wrong with Britain? Well I believe it has been undergoing social decay for years. Unlike Germany where for the most part its top industrialists has reinvested in that country. Britain’s industrialists along with global oligarchy have been closing industrial production within the UK and invested in the Far East, where much lower labour and other production costs have facilitated bigger and quicker returns on capital.
This has corroded much of the lower echelons of the lesser educated British society. Unemployed parents have produced offspring into families where there is no working parent, so the children are void of any apparent work ethic. Even if the parents have maintained employment, they have worked in the low wage economy, requiring both parents to work long hours to achieve their own and their children’s expectations (car, electrical goods, designer label clothes etc), neglecting their children’s character development, discipline and values. These youngsters now find they are unable to compete for jobs in a hardening labour market, yet weaned into the materialistic /consumer society, are frustrated because they know that everything they might aspire to possess is out of reach. Having little hope for the future, and programmed with distorted values (much provided by low class soaps and "reality" TV), much of Britain’s youth are bringing the country into the situation that we see today.

I am currently touring in the former European Communist/ Socialist states to note how they have progressed during the last twenty years or so. My impression is that although life is generally better now for most of these citizens, I can see the seeds of social decline that I have described above in earlier stages of development. Many of the more mature citizens want the same that I would wish for. They want better government, where politicians serve the people rather than themselves and their oligarchies. They want decisions made (even if a bitter pill at the start) where their environment is creating more local job opportunities, making housing more affordable and produces more of their own goods, rather than a high reliance of imported goods. This is of course counter to the multi-national oligarchy trading system, which is not interested in the social welfare of any particular nation, but only in their own enrichment.

[sjoyce]

Is there no support system in place in Britain for these people? In Canada, many refugee families make more money than senior citizens who have worked and paid taxes for 40 - 50 years.

[Gotno Gizmo]

These young people are not refugees, even if they come from parents who migrated from other countries (and I think most did not) they were born here and are British citizens, albeit poorer and lesser educated ones.

[nickcsadler]

Whilst not agreeing with the violence I think these people(and it isn`t just the young) are saying what many believe... Cameroon!!!! enough is enough... our society is under attack from the condems... the cuts are TOO much and why aren`t the banks and big business paying for their "mistakes"???