Reflections of a stormy petrel

She is mostly right, but wrong in the essential. A riot is an admission of defeat. It is the declaration that the excluded minority of functional illiterates and lifelong unemployed has no relation with the country. It is a declaration of war without a hope of victory and without a program. And all it will achieve in the long term will be to harden the position of the majority. Even the let's-all-talk-and-solve-this-together that she seems to be advocating will not work, because the gang culture is incapable of talking constructively - all it can say is "give!" It has never been brought up to express itself, think constructively and work with long-term purpose. It has been spat out of the schools without any ability to deal with the world as it is except in a parasitic way. But the majority, which belongs to the middle-class culture, which does know how to work the system, how to set themselves long-term goals and achieve them, will use any let's-talk structures for its own advantage; at best to discipline the minority, at worst to deepen their exclusion. The minority know just enough to know that they are excluded, but not enough to do anything about it. And their rage is mostly visited against their own immediate neighbours and colleagues; thus grinding them even further in the dust. There is, in short, NOTHING constructive to be got out of this situation. I say this without joy and without pleasure, but the only thing that can be done immediately is to use force to suppress the riots and punish as many rioters as possible. Unfortunately, even that will be difficult, because the smug idiots who claim to be governing this country have cut the number of police and soldiers, and have not done anything at all to understand the constant growth in jail population except stop building new jails - which means that the jails are overfilled as they are - Britain already has the highest jail population per total population in Europe - and that if a suitably large number of rioters are punished, they will explode. The smug, self-regarding BASTARDS who have polluted this country for decades have made it monstrously difficult to deal with the very issue they have ultimately caused, by allowing the unchecked growth of an uneducated underclass whose sole relationship with the country is parasitic.