Labour is turning this country into a banana republic.
Answered By: Lorne - 2/26/2007 |
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The trouble with kids is adults,the trouble with adults the medias ability to destort their minds and corrupt their souls,their successes can be seen everywhere, to celebrate thier ability to demoralise the adult, they have a save the children fund, when the thing the children need the most is for the adult to be put right.
Answered By: trucker - 2/25/2007 |
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They're a bunch of wankers
Answered By: Hello,is there anybody out there - 2/24/2007 |
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The Parents!!!!!!
Either they don't bother, wish to be absent and/or take no notice of their children and do not guide them properly.
Answered By: brainlady - 2/24/2007 |
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Lack of love in families.
Answered By: jljimenezs30 - 2/24/2007 |
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Cool things in Britain are the same way as they are were i live, wonder why no one gives a @? about us :(..............
Answered By: Martin - 2/24/2007 |
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Welcome to the 21st century. Yes it has gone that far downhill since you were young. It sounds like you may have a long way to go to catch up with our neighbour who keeps leading the way in crime, drive by shootings and drug dealing.
Answered By: St N - 2/24/2007 |
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You hit the nail on the head when you said:
"What are the Government going to do (aside from wasting taxpayers' money on wars in Iraq and filling the job market with Polish immigrants that is)?"
The Polish are required to do the jobs our people won't do because they're too busy getting wasted. I've been in so many jobs working with Africans or Eastern Europeans because the 17 - 30 year olds can't turn up for work or are to lazy when they get there or just think you're a mug for working hard.
Wow, idiots have given me thumbs down already.
It's happened gradually. Anthony Burgess predicted it in the 50's when he wrote A Clockwork Orange.
This situation has arisen because of decent people getting in to trouble for defending themselves against yobs. We've got to the point where it really is too dangerous to go out and walk anywhere after dark unless you're prepared to be violent possibly even kill.
Sounds extreme, doesn't it? But the fact is our social problems filter down from the top. We've had dishonest, corrupt, governments for years and they have set the tone of the country. It has become a selfish place where people are cold and begrudging to each other. Kids see no hope, they have nobody to look up to because everybody in authority is corrupt. PR managers for every company lie like politicians. The whole philosophy is wrong now and has been infected by marketing culture.
The negative influence Blair has had is astonishing. But it can't be cured by Laws or Blair giving a speech. It's down to us to:
Report crime to the police
Reclaim the freedom to walk the streets at night
Be unafraid
Attack the burglar that breaks in to your home.
If we have to go to prison in order to defend our rights, so be it.
There are root sociological causes to all the things people here are suggesting. The changes and increasing state of decay has progressed at the same rate as the loss of religion and tradition in Britain. We want to blame the parents or the Government or whoever but we are all to blame for allowing it to happen. We're to blame for watching junk tv, reading junk newspapers and therefore paying for paparazi to intrude on peoples lives, not reading our children bedtime stories, not eating together without the tv on. It's ou fault for wanting to bring down all the barriers in society so people can be free.
Tell me I'm wrong. Tell me our Country was worse when it was Christian, when people lived in communities, when people didn't care who had the flashest car, When people settled down after getting married instead of still behaving like kids with no responsibilities.
And now we have politicians saying the Bill of Human rights needs to be done away with. We need to stop believing the beautiful lies of politicians, celebrities, PR people and adverts and believe the terrible truth:
that life is hard and their are no short cuts
that you're just as good a person if you're a plumber or labourer as those who are multi millionaires.
Maybe you think I'm wrong.
Watch the X factor. How many people want to be celebrities when they have no entertainment skills to offer? How many people have monstrous spiralling debts? How many times in the last 25 years have we been told that things are getting better when they clearly aren't.
The fact you asked this question shows you are socially responsible and I'm sure you do fine as a Mum. You're responsible for your boy but we're all responsible for sorting out our mess of a country and our mess of a Parliament.
Answered By: neal9jsg - 2/24/2007 |
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You are so so right and I cant blame you for thinking of your child in this way , my parent didn even think of what school to send me there, the school was so bad, I think what hell place i wnet to , however, I went onto further education, worked really hard, this country has many bad kids its so terrible I dont see any desecent kids at all today, no one wants to be educated its just so bad, and yes they wasting money like that when there could do alot better from it , these people are just a waste of life really.
Answered By: hepp t - 2/24/2007 |
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It's not just the large cities that have this trouble. But I feel it's down to a lack of respect. Nobody is allowed to be firm with the kids anymore, even the parents are discouraged from smacking them. Even in the wild, there is a hierarchy and should anyone step out of line the elders come down hard. Therefor the younger members of any troop learn respect and responsibility by knowing their place within a group. Kids today are treated as equals and so they grow up with no respect for anyone else.
Answered By: shovelhead jack - 2/24/2007 |
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It isn't only where you live, it is everywhere, Iam talking about the U.S. too, I think it has to start at home, some of the parents I see today are the reason kids have gone wild, with the life style, lauguage and lack of morals. In my area are kids 9 yrs old and up that scare me the way they are...
Answered By: xyz - 2/24/2007 |
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I know what you mean i live in a town in the north east and some of the kids there are just idiots we are in fact the town with the most vandalism in the north east. However i am lucky as the part i live in isn't to bad. Every couple of days you always see a different window smashed on a bus shelter. What joy do these people get out of doing this? I'm 15 and can't understand it!
Answered By: smithy - 2/24/2007 |
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It is worth remembering that in the forties, fifties and early sixties, when Britain was a lot poorer than today, when only the richest families owned things like cars and televisions, our kids were a lot happier and none of the problems you refer to seemed to happen.
So what was different then. Basically it seems that discipline at school was much tougher with the use of the cane but that was banned in 1986 and most of the problems arsising from lack of school discipline seem to have happened since then, as the Sun reports. Also in those days kids on leaving school had to do two years National service in the forces where they got a bigger dose of discipline and were shouted at from morning to night. Yet talk to any old timers today about their National service days and they will tell you how much they enjoyed it and that it did them a lot of good. National Service ended in 1963.
Today of course we have this silly Human Rights act that prevents re-introducing the standards that existed then. So what the government should do is bring back the standards of the fifties.
Answered By: Wamibo - 2/24/2007 |
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Yes it is very sad, I am also a mother of a 13 year old so you can imagine my fears.. it is sad, but I think they let these types of children get away with too much, I think a harsher punishment may be in order to make them think twice!!! I also think that the parents have alot to do with it, I am a single mom also but my son would never ever ever act like this, he knows better and I have raised him well. I think alot of it has to do with showing them love, and guidance.
Answered By: michelle b - 2/24/2007 |
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I rarely read a newspaper but i see and hear the news..It's very distressing..Parents are mainly to blame,they have no control..When i was growing up,it was enough of a kick to have a crafty smoke (ordinary that is) behind the bike shed at school..Now,when i'm shopping and see and hear the way youngsters behave i want to give the parents a good slap,never mind the kids!!!
Answered By: trish - 2/24/2007 |
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Yes it should scare you and your not alone its got like the wild west in this country and no-one seems to be able to blot it
Answered By: ruhtrachi - 2/24/2007 |
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Yes Ladymoon it really is an awful situation - the trouble is no one seems to teach respect anymore.
I was brought up by my Grandparents and they taught me respect - I passed my knowledge of respect on to my daughter and she is now 29 and everyone that she meets all say what a wonderful attitude to life she has.
Yes something needs to be done but I don't think that this Government will do anything (all talk and no action).
At the moment crime is in all the cities and eventually it will overspill into our sleepy little towns.
Maybe conscription should be brought back - I am sure that discipline for 2 years would sort out most problems with the gun happy gangs. (Just a thought).
Yes if I had young children today I would think the same as you do and I just hope the future will improve for all of us.
Answered By: Jean D - 2/24/2007 |
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It is as bad as this in certain areas-mostly the worst council estates.Kids grow up in an area where all the older teens are doing drugs,hanging round in gangs and carrying weapons.
To be safe they feel they need a weapon and the backup of being part of a gang.To fit in with a gang they commit crime,drink,have underage sex,do drugs and get in fights and so on.
The cycle continues like this.
Answered By: Greg N - 2/24/2007 |
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Well marriage has been destroyed, and kids see one of their parents getting everyting for doing nothing so they think, 'well force is the way ahead, then'. Nothing else could have happened.
Answered By: Put_ya_mitts_up - 2/24/2007 |
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We need to keep a sense of proportion, which the Sun avoids doing at every opportunity (any excuse to sell news print). Only a very tiny minority of youths are involved in crime and it is highly unlikely you will even come a mile within meeting any of them. These teenagers are also mainly involved in inter-gang crime and less interested in ordinary members of the public.
If I was an newspaper Editor the picture would never have run. It was a cheap jibe at Cameron and missed the main point of his visit to Manchester (No, I am not a Conservative voter).
So enjoy life, burn the Sun to reduce your energy bills and do not worry about crime.
Answered By: James M - 2/24/2007 |
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What kinds of awful children will these little creeps have when they breed ?
Answered By: lokidrew - 2/24/2007 |
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You shouldn't believe everything self-dramatising teenagers tell Sun reporters cooking up a story. His gang may be the nastiest bunch since the Krays, and there are a lot of guns in Manchester, but if people were actually getting shot at the rate he claims there wouldn't be dead kids on the front pages of newspapers. It would be too common to put on the news. All this boy seems to have been able to do is smoke some grass and get himself nicked for theft. He is out of work and will stay that way if he steals from people. (I notice he hasn't yet worked out how to get hold of a drink more than once a week . Remember - I thought your generation were undisciplined yobs).
Answered By: Bernard B - 2/24/2007 |
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Breakdown of family life -single parent families ,families with 2 working parents,parents who don't care about their kids
single parent pensions where theres a financial incentive for single women to have kids they don't really want.
Kids are getting ideas from tv ,movies & videogames
Peer pressure
It's not the governments role to bring up kids responsibly it's the parents role
Answered By: phil h - 2/24/2007 |
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They are getting spoiled rotten.
Answered By: abenezerscroogex - 2/24/2007 |
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