A non-laugh Riot

Why should I be the last person on earth to pass interpretative judgment on the rioting youth of Britain? There are two judgments, quite well united in Theodore Dalrymple's item in the Australian - the Youth are Revolting, and have been for a very long time, because the leaders in Britain have led mainly for themselves and not for the led. The home and family and place of employment have all been decimated to economics, and these are the results.

The only other notable observation is the pathetic empty materialism of the rioters, mirroring the pathetic empty materialism of their (our) society.

Being poor in England is oppressive. When we lived their briefly, we rented a modest 3br house in the middle of the toxic wasteland that is bedfordshire, and paid about £7500 pa. I would regularly see advertisements about bus driving, hair-dressing or receptioning that offered barely £10,000 pa, and sometimes less. Meanwhile, sectors of society are ostentatiously rich.

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