BBC NEWS | UK | Britons ‘passive against crime’.
Reform, the British thinktank on policy and economy in the UK, have said that Brits are less likely to be have-a-go heroes when they witness a crime. I’d like to think a witness would call the police at the very least, I know I would.
Would anyone like to know why we’re not heroes? Why we don’t leap into the fray? Why we’re stand-by-and-do-nothing? Would the government that screwing over our country even more than the sixties did like to know why? Or would they rather keep the flagpole up their rear and continue to look upwards, away from the common people?
We all know its the latter, but for the record, we don’t throw ourselves into the lion’s den to rescue a fellow citizen because we’ve already seen enough people do it. And what happens to said heroes?
They kicked to death for Chrissakes!!
Yes, boys and girls, teenage mobs rule the streets, chavvies with white lightning, in rip-off Ben Sherman shirts and with no desire to work for a living, go out, get bored and kick the shit out of a father-of-three who asked them to lay off his car.
It’s not unusual, it’s happened plenty of times. My brother played at a charity gig in memorium for a goth girl and her boyfriend who had the hell beaten out of them for being goth.
She died.
Even if you do have-a-go, the little gits responsible will have a chavvy mother saying they were at home all night, or the brat in question suing you for smacking them one and when they’re under sixteen (it’s not unusual), you get prosecuted!
The government’s answer to this, by the by, is to keep teens in school until they are eighteen, letting them go only if they have apprenticeships, etc, to go to. My own children, who will not being growing up into teen gang members who roam the streets will also fall under this spangly new law.
It’s the LHA thing all over again. Tar them all with the same brush. If you weren’t going to college anyway, the government’s thinking, then you’re obviously a troublemaker, because what else is there for you?
Lots of things Mr Government Man, but you wouldn’t know that because anyone without a degree, to you, doesn’t count for jack. And charming attitude has nurses ignoring patients in pain, dying for a bedpan because they have a degree and can’t possibly do anything down-and-dirty.
And YES! It is all connected. The overarcing attitude of ‘reach for the stars’ shouldn’t have the addendum ‘even if you don’t want to’. People count. Even if they drink white lightning and beat the shit out of a pensioner for a mobile phone their kids pressed upon them for emergencies.
How about you find out why, rather than write another policy or make another inane observation?
People may say, what would you do? I used to have some ideas, the driving force behind all them being to raise civil responsiblities and lower liberties. It’s like marriage, you’re in a partnership with every other citizen.
Okay, rant over. For today.
