My beef with Cameron is his "hug a hoodie" baloney pre-election.
As well as his indifference when the riots began
And then his remarkably sudden return from Tuscany saying - all hoodies should receive the maximum power of the state upon them.
He's either one of the world's greatest chancers (I suspect) or he is stupid.
One suspects he has advisors who told him to hug hoodies, and now tell him they are beyond the pale?
Either way he comes across as someone who can't think for himself.
oh, you could be right about Cameron I'm just loathe to try and blame him, or the coalition, for this situation. As I mentioned on another post/thread, it's not as if this arose overnight and it's not as if there's some sort of genetic component to 'badness'. But there is a great clip of Clegg, pre-election, warning that following Tory policies could see rioting and civil unrest as we were seing in Greece. This was, of course, dismissed out of hand...but there you go, that's the way they roll, and I think Labour would have been just as dismissive, this isn't a red/blue thing.
CMD just comes across as a marketing bod to me and, as that's his only working background, it's maybe no surprise. I suppose you can start to make claims about him being unable to heed, or even take seriously, a warning. Clegg and riots, plus everyman and his dog and Coulson. I still don't see any conspiracy but I do see overweaning arrogance, the only one beating him in that respect is BoJo.
I guess I'm saying I view anyone laying the blame for the riots at the feet of the Tories pretty much the same as I see the Tories laying the blame for a global financial meltdown at the feet of Labour.....total hogwash. We can criticise their response, what they say, how quickly they come back off their hols, etc. But let's face it we can all imagine a rosier future but no-one really has a clue how to sort the current and to break the vicous cycle.
My biggest issue, personally, is trying to square away my theoretical understanding with what's actually practical and, of that, what tiny bits may even get enough support to be enacted. Was it the Jesuits? that were meant to be famous for saying give me the child until he's seven and I'll give you the man. My real world experience would indicate that children are, depressingly, already on a certain path by the time they reach the school system, so that's approx age 5. It's not that nothing can be done it's that the effort, and of course resource required, seems to increase exponentially with each subsequent year. By the time people are in young adulthood, often ill equipped to join any form of mainstream society, the task becomes enormous.
Education has always been at the root of it all and I don't mean running schools like bootcamps to churn out little clone products with a solid protestant work ethic. I mean the whole package, what we learn at home, in our communties and within our peer groups as much as what is taught in schools.
