With the recent roaring escapades of violence and arson in the UK, A number of questions have arisen regarding the country’s current social and moral stature. The government has been widely criticised for both not being able to constrain the outburst of apparent mindless anarchy and also largely being blamed for the situation due to it’s “over-liberalised constitution”
Why are people angry?
Many feel that there is a deeper reason for the this civil unrest of late - it being attributed majorly to the result of three decades of moral decay due to the ineffectual standard of British authoritative measures. Britain has over the years introduced many policies and amended it’s constitutions in the effort to claim the title of “the most liberal society” in the world, the icon of democracy and the home to all nations. It’s aim has been to uphold the rights of the individual citizen at practically any cost. This in itself, and admirable feat indeed for a country which once sought to colonise the world. Britain’s bounteous efforts to provide it’s community with a free, fair and individually empowering society has been in many aspects, spat at and crucified for it’s benignity.
History of violence
In the 1981 Britain faced riots, looting and violence such as this but at that time there was much indignation amongst citizens in the basis of political and racial discord within the community. Today, do British citizens really have a justifiable reason for such malicious devastation? It seems there are many excuses being laid claim, but none of them really seem to hold the weight of justice. Many express their anger with the discrepant cry that: ‘the society has failed them’. Perhaps in many respects this is true!
UK government grants
British citizens are offered multiple varieties of benefits and welfare schemes along with grants and subsidiaries on various assets. Teenage pregnancies have sored since the government introduced welfare programmes for single parents. The state of British education institutions has declined rapidly as “extreme” protective rights over students have diminished all esteem for authority. Teachers, police and adults and are no longer feared nor revered by the youth of today. Malevolent ambition seems to lurk in many corners of the great British Empire, some of these actions barely witnessed in even the most impoverished communities. In the case of British governance, it seems that the hand that feeds has been badly bitten.
Africa vs the UK
When comparing British lower and working class communities with that of a starving nation in Africa, there is no comparison. Where an African beggar might shed a tear over a piece of dry bread, might you find a group of British fifteen year old yobs kicking a man to death while he tries to put out an arsonist’s fire? Indeed it seems the British government has failed. It has valued freedom over discipline and in the effort to provide it’s nation with everything it wants, it has neglected one of the fundamental fabrics of society, the law.
Sources:
www.economist.com - "Anarchy in the UK" 22 August 2011
www. economist.com - "The Fire this time" 22 August 2011
www.londonriots.org.uk - "Home page" 22 August 2011
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