PERSONALLY I never fell for the line that last summer’s rioters were a bunch of poor, deprived kids with no jobs, no money and no hope.
Sadly millions of people did – especially anyone gullible enough to be taken in by a “social research study” carried out by the Guardian and the London School of Economics and lovingly pumped out as gospel by the BBC.
Shops were being looted and torched because the under- privileged were protesting about David Cameron, MPs’ expenses, university fees, bankers’ bonuses and rich people, the study proclaimed with pompous certainty.
Others on the soppy Left promoted the line that the riots which tore apart areas of London, Birmingham, Man- chester, Salford, Liverpool and Nottingham were an inevitable backlash against the way the Government was hacking away at public spending.
Never one to miss a chance to shoot his mouth off Ken Livingstone – the worst leader London’s ever had – declared: “If you’re making massive cuts there’s always the potential for this sort of revolt.” Never mind that the much-needed cuts hadn’t even begun to take effect then.
It was enough to make you weep. Or throw up, depending where you stand in the crime and punishment debate.
Today all the liberal hand- wringing is exposed as a pathetic sham perpetrated by a bunch of bleeding hearts who allowed their political leanings to blinker them to the truth. That truth has been glaringly obvious for some time but has been reinforced by the case of Gordon Thompson, the rioter who burned down the furniture store in Croydon and in minutes destroyed a 144-year-old family business.
THOMPSON was no youngster without hope, no victim of an uncaring society. he was a career criminal with a long record of violence with knives and a machete. he’d done time for armed robbery, assault, wife-beating, shoplifting and possessing cocaine. he’d been jailed five times for a total of seven years.
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