British rioters the spawn of a bankrupt ruling elite

British rioters the spawn of a bankrupt ruling elite

THE riots in London and elsewhere in Britain are a backhanded tribute to the long-term intellectual torpor, moral cowardice, incompetence and careerist opportunism of the British political and intellectual class.

They have somehow managed not to notice what has long been apparent to anyone who has taken a short walk with his eyes open down any frequented British street: that a considerable proportion of the country's young population (a proportion that is declining) is ugly, aggressive, vicious, badly educated, uncouth and criminally inclined.

Unfortunately, while it is totally lacking in self-respect, it is full of self-esteem: that is to say, it believes itself entitled to a high standard of living, and other things, without any effort on its own part.

Consider for a moment the following: although youth unemployment in Britain is very high, that is to say about 20 per cent of those aged under 25, the country has had to import young foreign labour for a long time, even for unskilled work in the service sector.


The reasons for this seeming paradox are obvious to anyone who knows young Britons as I do.

No sensible employer in a service industry would choose a young Briton if he could have a young Pole; the young Pole is not only likely to have a good work ethic and refined manners, he is likely to be able to add up and -- most humiliating of all -- to speak better English than the Briton, at least if by that we mean the standard variety of the language. He may not be more fluent but his English will be more correct and his accent easier to understand.

This is not an exaggeration. After compulsory education (or perhaps I should say intermittent attendance at school) up to the age of 16 costing $80,000 a head, about one-quarter of British children cannot read with facility or do simple arithmetic. It makes you proud to be a British taxpayer.

I think I can say with a fair degree of certainty, from my experience as a doctor in one of the areas in which a police station has just been burned down, that half of those rioting would reply to the question, "Can you do arithmetic?" by answering, "What is arithmetic?"

British youth leads the Western world in almost all aspects of social pathology, from teenage pregnancy to drug taking, from drunkenness to violent criminality. There is no form of bad behaviour that our version of the welfare state has not sought out and subsidised.

British children are much likelier to have a television in their bedroom than a father living at home. One-third of them never eat a meal at a table with another member of their household -- family is not the word for the social arrangements of the people in the areas from which the rioters mainly come. They are therefore radically unsocialised and deeply egotistical, viewing relations with other human beings in the same way as Lenin: Who whom, who does what to whom. By the time they grow up, they are destined not only for unemployment but unemployability.

For young women in much of Britain, dependence does not mean dependence on the government: that, for them, is independence. Dependence means any kind of reliance on the men who have impregnated them who, of course, regard their own subventions from the state as pocket money, to be supplemented by a little light trafficking. (According to his brother, Mark Duggan, the man whose death at the hands of the probably incompetent police allegedly sparked the riots, "was involved in things", which things being delicately left to the imagination of his interlocutor.)

Relatively poor as the rioting sector of society is, it nevertheless possesses all the electronic equipment necessary for the prosecution of the main business of life; that is to say, entertainment by popular culture. And what a culture British popular culture is!

Perhaps Amy Winehouse was its finest flower and its truest representative in her militant and ideological vulgarity, her stupid taste, her vile personal conduct and preposterous self-pity.

Her sordid life was a long bath in vomitus, literal and metaphorical, for which the exercise of her very minor talent was no excuse or explanation. Yet not a peep of dissent from our intelllectual class was heard after her near canonisation after her death, that class having long had the backbone of a mollusc.

Criminality is scarcely repressed any more in Britain. The last lord chief justice but two thought that burglary was a minor offence, not worthy of imprisonment, and the next chief justice agreed with him.

By the age of 12, an ordinary slum-dweller has learned he has nothing to fear from the law and the only people to fear are those who are stronger or more ruthless than he.

Punishments are derisory; the police are simultaneously bullying but ineffectual and incompetent, increasingly dressed in paraphernalia that makes them look more like the occupiers of Afghanistan than the force imagined by Robert Peel. The people who most fear our police are the innocent.Of course, none of this reduces the personal responsibility of the rioters. But the riots are a manifestation of a society in full decomposition, of a people with neither leaders nor followers but composed only of egotists.


http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...upt-ruling-elite/story-e6frg6zo-1226112640970

Brilliant. He's nailed the authors of Britain's sorry state- the Left. They have encouraged decades of social decay, and now it's apparent to all.

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Ain't you the guy who made a thread about a UK guy with no gun shooting at London policemen ?

http://www.politicalforum.com/lates...olice-officers-hospitalized-london-riots.html

Here, have some factual information and start a thread with it;

 

The Australian is part of Murdoch's News Corporation.

 

I posted a media article.

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Are these by any chance the same young people who enthusiastically supported Obama? Yeah, I thought so. Great Britain was the biggest supporter of Obama in Europe in the last elections. A corrupt and bankrupt education system run by leftists, a media controlled by liberal left wingers, and a disgusting culture full of violence and obscenities, made them what they are. In some cities and states, we have the same problems here in America.

Great post, DonGlock26. Don't be too hopeful though, the Left will deny any responsibility in this, and their denial will stick with most naive people.

 

That would be "Yes", then.

 

Thank you. Of course, they will not accept the blame for the cultural disaster that they caused. The best that we can hope for is that they are removed from power.

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Yes, I made a thread on the media article.


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DonGlock26
I have to agree with much of what you say, and from experience.
My son runs a busy campsite and restaurant. He pays reasonably good wages, well above the minimum wage and with a good bonus at the end of the season, but over the years has been let down time and time again by employees from the UK who stole food, alcohol and money, and threw freebie parties for their friends whenever my son and his wife were away from the place, while several Polish workers who have returned every summer for years work hard and are 100% loyal and trustworthy.

 

Thanks. It's time to restore civilization in the West- IMHO.


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Everything crosses over from the US. It's not really a good thing.

 

The UK Government is Conservative (as I'm sick of telling you)

Where is the free drink at, Mairead?

 

Well, if we're assuming that Polish youths are better for jobs than British youths, I guess that means that Mexican youths are better for jobs than American youths.

Consider how no Americans want to work agricultural jobs even when unemployment is high.

Why do we get so much outsourcing? Because people from India and China work harder than Americans.

 

No, because they work cheaper than Americans.

 

That's part of it, but basically no Americans want to work the fields on farms throughout the country. It's not for lack of openings.

 

Do you really believe that the British youth of today know the name of the President of the US? If asked what is Obama they are likely to say it's a gas guzzling 4 x 4.

 

We are talking about decades of decay. Amazing......



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Gawd, I didn't know it was that bad in Britain.

 

Oh yes, they are decades ahead of us on "the road to serfdom".

Here's a great comment from the OP:

John Oliver of Brisbane Posted at 5:54 AM August 11, 2011

Strong words but true, Theodore. At one point I did think of moving to Somerset or the north-west of Scotland, but on reflection decided for the sake of my family that it would only be a matter of time before the PC moral decay swamps the nation entirely. Ask most Brits who have bailed out and moved to Australia or NZ and they'll tell you the same.

 

No, but you did know it isn't that bad in Britain. Facts however, are of no relevance.

Don't mention it to Glock, but UK national exam results came out this week and are the best they have ever been. It's hardly worth posting the link to prove his post ridiculous, it's been done so many times I'm sure credibility is no longer linked with his name.

However, as I'm not a fan of sneering or smugness, here is a link just for you.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-14339876

 

Good choice. For a move like that, you require to be in possession of all the facts. From this post, it is obvious you are completely misinformed and other posts here evidence continually that you are unable to research accurately. I hope you never think of moving, you could end up in trouble, an innocent abroad, believing inaccurate comments like that.

 

You mentioned India and China.

 

True, that applies more to them than to Mexico.

 

You're lucky to have the option for your people to work on farms. Here there is outsourcing but very few jobs. Large swathes of the country are owned by people who never set foot on it and it can't be farmed by the people.

 

You should read the rest of the comments. They aren't drinking the progressive kool-aid.

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