Did you hear Ed Milliband?

[venator]

Mr Millibean excelled himself for political platitudes yesterday, but among the "we have to look into this" and "this is absolutely unacceptable" there was a classic floppy Left quote -

"we need to look at parenting and aspirations"

He didn't actually say "we are all guilty" but watch this space.

Are you there, Grommet?

[daisya]

Politicians of all colours are afraid of upsetting the voters so they all pussyfoot around with words and deeds and still nothing gets done. It will take draconian measures to sort this though prevention should have been implemented long ago so that it didn't get to this stage. They need to slap them down and use control and make parents 100% responsible for their offspring without fail.

[sandyRoe]

A common theme from many interviewed for the television was : 'What are the parents doing letting their children out in a riot situation?'
If you lived in an inner city ghetto, with little real prospect of ever escaping from it, your aspirations might be at rock bottom.
Miliband seems to have hit the nail on the head here.

[Craftypig]

I had to laugh when we were told that these riots are in part to be blamed on the the current government! A government that has been in power for a little over 1 year, then I remembered under labour party rule everybody in the UK lived on easy street and life was a breeze, 0% unemployment, crime at an all time low, children flowering in the best education system that was the envy of the world. Then I woke up!!

[daisya]

I'm sure there were parents of years ago with little prospects, no money and no escaping from where they were at Sandy, but they still brought their children up to respect others and their property, so why not do that now?

[venator]

If Mr Millibean was PM (which Heaven furfend), then presumably he'd set up a quango with some high paid names and a London office to find out how he could throw buckets of borrowed money at the problem.

Or what?

[Ankou]

cameron: 'there will be an inquiry, lessons will be learnt'

[Old_Geezer]

It is all true though. Must be difficult to find something to publically say at this stage.

[Gromit]

Venator I'm here,

As a politician it is the wrong time to be crowing "we told you so" and indulging in political point scoring. So the opposition have to support the Government, even though they would like to boast "Nothing like this happened when we were in charge". As a result, Milliband has to say something positive, but it does come across as wishy washy I will agree.

I don't think Cameron, Clegg or Boris had a particular good day either, it must have been jet lag.

[venator]

hi Gromit,

So "Nothing like this happened when we were in charge" !!!!

What planet have you been living on? Check out all the other threads which list the Labour riots.

I'm not going to get drawn into the "give me examples" game - just check out all the other threads which list the Labour riots.

You should get rid of those red tinted glasses - it does bore a lot of people!