All police leave has been cancelled in Britain. More than 1.500 criminals, including a criminal 11-year old girl, have been arrested since the unrest began. The last time there were so many buildings burning in London was during the blitz in 1940-41.
25 percent of Britain’s population lives at or below the poverty line, Wolfgang Hansson points out (in Swedish). And this in a country where new, harsh budget cuts await due to the country’s economic problems. Unemployment is high, social mobility is low, and class differences are as wide as they get in Europe.
I don’t understand how this could possibly make anyone frustrated?
The only ones who cause trouble are criminals, that is, those who are evil from birth and those who are ill-bred. We must therefore conclude that nowadays, there are more evil children born and more who are badly bred.
We can’t do much about those who are born evil, more than put them away. But we can do something about ill-breeding. British authorities should send out fliers to poor areas with information about the importance of good parenting and responsibility – one flier per household should be enough. Then, eventually, people will stop behaving criminally.
Mostly I’d say that it’s just the country’s rampant ill-breeding that forces Prime Minister David Cameron to think about bringing in the British Army to subdue the population and censor social media.* Everyone really should be content.
Alexandra Gyllenbåge-Kaprifol
* Please do not draw any parallels with the Arab Spring: “Numerous factors have led to the protests, including issues such as … human rights violations, government corruption [...] economic decline, unemployment, extreme poverty …”
