Question Time with teenagers about the riots on BBC3 tonight....

[trt]

The audience seemed about 70% non white and most of them talked in Hip Hop language with the hand gestures, attitudes etc and very hard to understand.

God knows what the UK will be like in 20/30 years when these people have kids, as they were anti police and the establishment and said there was nothing to do for the young people.

Maybe they should visit some of the 3rd world country's, they have nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Teddy_boy]

Until the riots happened a majority of people in England were anti police.Its only since the riots that people have realised without the police it would be bedlam.

[hau kola]

Well said Teddy.
I had a conversation with a Facebook friend in Australia who had been watching the riots on the news. She said it was like 'spot the pommie' then immediately said 'oh, should i be saying that'?
My partner works within law inforcement and told me there had been 3 gang rapes in Brum....all involving asians raping white girls.
It wasn't reported for fear of racial riots.

[welshlibranr]

can believe this hau!..it's not over in Birmingham yet sadly......

[mike11111]

So the media response is to lend them some legitimacy by giving them a public forum? Fortunately, as the OP says, this was on BBC3 so not many people would have had to see or suffer it.

[dabees]

If you don't like what that generation say, then do something about it. These are the ones who will look after us when we are incapable. We educate them, it's our responsibility to to do it right.

[trt]

I take it you didn't see the programme dabees,

It was scary that these young people are the next generation, they are full of hate and anger etc, they want everything on a plate and think they deserve everything for nothing!

[mike11111]

If what Dabees says is true I can do no better than cite Dante's quotation over the gates of Hell; "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here".

[dabees]

I saw the programme and stand by my views. Is my opinion less valid?

[mike11111]

Yes, because you have openly admitted to watching BBC3. I would rather own up to consorting with whores and burglars.

[dabees]

And how does that let you understand the youth of today mike? I have a 19yr old son. I follow what he does to understand their generation.

I don't like everything his generation is in to, but I make an effort to understand.

[mike11111]

You are getting too wrapped up in the "generation" thing. There are people of 6, 16, 26, 36, 46, 56, 66, 76, and 86 who have never put a foot wrong in their lives. Similarly there are people in each and every age group I have mentioned who have been responsible for some of the most heinous offences. Whatever the problem may be, it is not age-related.

[Iinvisible]

It would appear it's not age related, class related (there was amillionaires daughter amongst them), what hope is there? There was a teaching assistant, a lifeguard, a charity worker involved! What has happened to morals?????

[Ric.ror]

I disagree
I saw the programme and the majority of the audience I found to be very articulate. Yes the speak in 'rap' but that's cause they is young
I found they were equally divided on the issue of morality with only one lone girl/women seeming to think it was ok for 13 year olds to be having sex. The rest of the audience was outraged
There were lots of issues it raised and I for one would welcome more of this kind of programme if only to help oldies like me get a tiny insight to young peoples attitudes not just the idiots over the past few days
Btw - well done Richard bacon not an easy job but you managed it

[boxtops]

The Question Time on BBC3 was a repeat (I believe) of the edition shown on BBC1 on Thursday night, so will have had a wide audience. It was a short-notice edition so I don't know how the audience was selected, usually you have to apply weeks in advance to be in the audience - but it's always a "selected audience".

[vulcan]

dabees says,"we educate them, it's our responsibility to do it right". A valid point but my wife, who was a teacher, made a statement many years ago, She said" for every person willing to teach there are 32 people not wishing to be taught". Slightly tongue in cheek, I agree, but if they don't want to learn you can't make them.

[TWR]

God knows what the UK will be like in 20/30 years! AOG answered that in one of his last posts, Immigrants are there too many here.

[mrsweasley]

A Friend told me last year (fact not racism) only a third of UK is now white British,and its falling every year with more mixed race babies and immigrants

[milly143]

I watched it and aside from the desire to wrap a load of duct tape over the mouth of one of the panelists - a young actor from Hackney I think, I felt very inconvinced by a lot of what was said by the audience. A few of them came up with very concise statements but a lot of them gave me the impression they were just digging as deep as they could for excuses.