As the streets of England’s cities burned and innocent people cowered in fear of the mob, our political and social commentators have been spouting the usual drivel. Once the political leaders had done us the favour of returning from their holidays they made the usual quotes about ‘unacceptable behaviour’ and that ‘only a minority were involved’ – none of which is of any comfort to the people made homeless, to the thousands of small business who are losing money and the hundreds of thousands of people who are waiting, with some trepidation, for the night to fall. Decades of liberal social attitudes and the encouragement of a ‘me, first’ society have now come home to roost on our streets with a vengeance. In a society where corrupt, greedy politicians and their duck houses, sit alongside corrupt, greedy bankers and their obscene bonuses, what do we expect our youth to do when the opportunity for gain arises on their streets? The chance of a free TV or pair of trainers is no different to the politicians and bankers filling their snouts at the trough of capitalist greed, and all at the expense of the tax-paying majority.

It has also been ironic to hear the bleating voices of the latte-swilling classes who excused the feral behaviour of the underclass when it took place on council estates, amongst their own, but now wail for water cannon and rubber bullets to protect their ‘communities’. They weren’t fussed when it was working class communities being blighted by the feral youth that they set loose with their liberal policies on school and family discipline, were they? It was also noticeable that the worst violence of all has been witnessed in the very ‘multi-cultural’ communities that were held up as wonderful examples of our diverse society. Decades of appeasing the race awareness lobby has now been shown to have been a waste of time and money. Forcing mass immigration and multi-culturalism onto poor communities has destroyed social cohesion and produced disaffected and disconnected groups of youths whose only loyalty is to their gang or their X-Box.

Another major problem that has led to the street violence of the past week has been the disconnect between local communities and central government. This country is so centralised that there is a sense of paralysis and rootlessness in many local areas. This, in turn, leads to families with no roots, no sense of local connection or pride and therefore no stake in their local area. Add in the cuts to local services, especially to employment, youth and education services and you have a recipe for disaster. None of this excuses the actions we have seen recently on our streets, but nor should we allow the Labour and Conservative parties to get off the hook by blaming street criminals when it is the politicians who have encouraged the breakdown of our society with their policies. Labour encouraged mass immigration to destroy local communities, the Tories have encouraged attacks on the poor and vulnerable to pay for the bankers greed,; both these actions have led to where we are today.

But, above all, we have an economic and political system that rewards the greed and selfishness that leads to the jobs and livelihoods of thousands of people being sacrificed at the altar of profit and wealth for the few. How surprised should we be that hundreds of young people, encouraged to believe they are beyond the law by the Liberal Left, should now decide that the time is right to take THEIR share of the greedy society?

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