A Wake Up Call for Us All

 There can't have been many people who were not as shocked as I was when viewing the sheer lawlessness displayed on the streets of our major cities during the last week. We often hear about young tearaways up to no good, we even get some of it around here at times, but the scale of the violence and looting carried out by children and young adults was of a whole new order.

The inquests to what happened have already started, and I'm pretty sure they will be followed up with an enquiry or two from the select committees, or even a public enquiry, but despite all of that perhaps some good will come of all the destruction if the silent majority in this country finally wake up and take action against the soft liberal policies that have led to this situation developing.

The obvious problem with the whole situation is lack of discipline, starting in the home, continued at school, perpetuated by the police, far too many young people are reared with little or no discipline in their lives. They can act with impunity, no sanctions are imposed at home, teachers are completely toothless, and our justice system spends far too much time worrying about the poor little darlings who commit crime, and singularly forgets the victims of crime, it's high time we woke up and smelt the coffee!

One of the first significant steps that we must take is to repeal the odious Human Rights Act from our legislation, and replace it with a bill of rights that enshrines our liberty, without imposing ridiculous restrictions on our courts. It must be for our parliament to design laws that meet with public support, and it must be our judges that decide whether convicted terrorists or illegal immigrants can be deported back to their country of origin, it must not be unelected judges in Europe to decide on those matters.

The last Labour government spent 12 years ploughing millions of pounds into sink estates, single mothers, drug addicts and gang members. The benefits system became so illogical that many are better off to be out of work and claiming benefits than actually working, people claiming benefits, can often live a lifestyle that many working people can only dream of, this can't be right.

We rapidly need to get back to a situation where young people respect their elders and authority. The ridiculous situation where teachers have to operate a "no touch" policy through fear of prosecution has to be scrapped, parents must be able to discipline their children without immediate investigation by "Childline" and Social Services. I'm not talking about a return to corporal punishment or beating children, but young people must learn where the boundaries are, and those boundaries have to be policed.

More importantly, parents need to learn to set an example for their children to follow, to have a strong work ethic and to reinforce what is right and what is wrong. In addition the police need to be freed from the political correctness that hamstrings their actions, they must be able to robustly police our streets without cries of police brutality every time some rioter or looter gets his skull cracked with a truncheon. We all need to support our police, and to back them to the hilt when they are protecting us and our property.

I am not calling for us to return to a bygone age, but we must pull back from this cuddly fluffy politically correct nonsense that pervades our society, the weak liberal experiment of the past 12 years has spectacularly failed, Blair, Brown and Milliband need to be held to account for their abject neglect of the silent majority.

It was their policies that created 2.5 million jobs that immediately went to foreign nationals coming into this country. This influx of cheap labour not only forced many of our un-skilled and semi-skilled workers onto the dole queues, it exacerbated the shortage of affordable housing and increased social tensions in many communities.

The riots of last weekend may have happened now, but they were created by 12 years of Labour mismanagement and social experimentation.