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th club where we imprison them against their will as one 17 year old violent mugger put it whilst playing a video game and use the renowned punishment techniques of snooker and video games for the day and have take away food delivered to them afterwards we drive them home and prepare for indoor football and squash the next day posted by winstonsmith33 at 04 03 22 comments wednesday 7 march 2012 farewell and a few final words several followers of this blog have emailed me to ask why i haven t posted for a while the truth is i no longer work in the social care or youth sector in fact i have left the uk and returned to ireland where i am originally from overall i loved the six years i lived in england and came to see it as my adopted home for the time i was there however on account of valuing my mental health i was no longer able to work in the youth social care sector and found it almost impossible to find other work so i made the decision to return to my native country to be near my family and close friends on a final note i would like to thank all the followers of this blog for their regular contributions over the last few years above all though i want to dedicate this blog and the orwell prize that i received in 2010 to two groups of people firstly to all those kids in care and young adults in supported housing that i worked with who despite coming from tough or neglectful backgrounds and having many personal problems as a result were still able to rise above their issues and strive to improve themselves and didnt use their backgrounds as an excuse to bully and intimidate their peers the staff that worked with them or their communities secondly to all the staff that work in these care homes or housing projects and have to endure verbal and physical abuse on a daily basis i really dont know how you all stick it i will be leaving up the blog for the time being and there is plenty more material that is not on the blog on my experiences and observations of working with the underclass in my book generation f thank you again over and out winston smith posted by winstonsmith33 at 07 38 34 comments wednesday 17 august 2011 excuses for the riots debunked since the riots have subsided the excuse makers have been busy trying to find justification for the feral mobs that burned working and middle class families out of their homes as well as laying destruction to local businesses and people s workplaces wednesday s guardian gives a few of them a platform in which to try and rationalise mob rule last thursday s edition of young voters question time on bbc 4 also revealed a disturbing antipathy to the concept of law and order by members of the audience and a palpable hatred for the police rudeness and an inability to converse and share ideas in a diplomatic manner were also on display in that the majority of these young people between 18 35 wouldn t allow each other to speak or finish a sentence indeed the presenter richard bacon had a hard time trying to facilitate discussion due to the lack of manners and etiquette needed to conduct a civilised debate myths and a multitude of excuses were put foward by members of the audience and have since been repeated by many commentators in the media i will attempt to dispel a few of them here 1 the killing of mr duggan by the police how can stealing a wide screen tv from currys or thieving a shiny new tracksuit or burning your neighbour s flat down be interpreted as a justifiable expression of grief and anger over the death of a stranger the logical extension of this form of reasoning would allow anyone who felt aggrieved by any kind of violence to go out on an orgy of looting and destruction as a means of releasing anger and frustration it would be like hearing that an elderly woman you never knew had her house broken in to and then responding to the news by torching your local family run corner shop and as a local community worker observed on the program where was the public display of anger at the twenty young people murdered in his borough in london by other young people over the past year 2 poverty and inequality whilst i abhor the inequality that exists in the uk as a result of decades of neo liberalism and indeed am a victim of it myself it doesnt naturally follow on that this gives me a reason to loot shops commit acts of violence and terrorise my community the poverty that exists in the uk is of a relative kind the welfare state in britain provides the underclass with housing benefits education and a health service all free of charge and the envy of sub saharran africa i am not saying they have an ideal life but their basic needs and those of their children are met whilst working in supported housing with today s poor i observed how many of them were so well fed they were obese and that they had money to spend on cheap alcohol and recreational drugs the majority of them also possessed luxury electronic goods such as laptops playstations and the newest in mobile phones they may be poor compared to the folks that live in the mansion on the hill but they are wealthier than the monarchs of medieval europe the grinding abject poverty that existed in britain during the ninteen thirties see orwell s the road to wigan pier and that of the post war rationing period never led to marauding gangs of unsocialised teenagers ransacking their communities the reason being that in those decades there was no uncivilised underclass and although society was too rigid and authoritarian we have now gone to the other extreme the working classes of this earlier epoch had a sense of backbone and a collective set of norms to which they adhered and a labour party that promoted collective values cultural relativism and the doctrine of non judgmentalism that pervade the public sector along with the enchantment with all things materialistic thanks to the triumph of neo liberalism have eroded the responsibility of some young people to act in a civilised manner with respect and consideration for others 3 unemployment several young rioters being interviewed on sky news claimed that because they couldnt get work they were taking revenge on the local businesses and high street chain stores that had overlooked their job applications as recipients of the already generous welfare state and as products of a comprehensive education system that eschews the concept of personal responsibility by labelling badly behaved children with non existent psycholgical conditions such as adhd odd oppositional defiant disorder and cd conduct disorder these young rioters have been imbued with the notion that their behaviour is not their fault and that it is the responsibility of the state to cater to their every whim they will have been indulged in this fallacy by every agency of the state they will have come in to contact with be it their schools social services supported housing sector youth offending service youth workers connexions and so on whilst i believe strongly in the welfare state i believe that every citizen has reciprocal rights and duties towards her or his fellow citizens which precludes burning peoples homes and places of work to the ground the uk s youth unemployment rate runs at around twenty percent and spain s is at forty percent the reason the spanish youth are not rioting is that they have strong communities above all though their police force wouldn t spend days debating with politicians whether using water cannon was an infringement the human rights of criminals who were blighting the lives of working class communities 4 boredom a middle class girl in the audience on the aforementioned bbc programme claimed that as young people are so bored what with being unemployed and not having enough youth clubs to go to they took to the streets out of frustration with the dullness and ennui of their existence i like to call this the throwing one s toys out of the pram theory in other words if i am not indulged and provided with entertainment and leisure by others i will terrorise my community and the lives of my neighbours this excuse is actually insulting to the majority of the sullen withdrawn and bored teenagers who don t resort to arsonry or throwing molotov cocktails at the police just to kill some time i spent a large proportion of my teenage years rigid with boredom but i never once thought i would alleviate the monotony of my existence by setting fire to a school or stabbing one of my friends or a passer by as we spent hours stupified with disaffection up alleyways and on street corners a few years ago i used to volunteer at a youth club which provided the youth in the area with meaningful activities and somewhere to socialise however it was taken over by young hoodlums who disobeyed the rules and bullied and victimised their well behaved peers when i challenged them i had a bottle thrown at me and a bin thrown over my head as is usual i got no support from the other staff as they were afraid of the thugs and instead they tried to reason with them which didn t work i almost responded clint eastwood style to this attack but in the interests of keeping my job in the school next door i restrained myself we had to close the youth club for several months as the manager couldnt control the rough element that kept turning up and the police and local people complained about an increase in anti social behaviour in the area on the nights it was open it is a glib prouncement to asssume that the building of a youth club will eradicate anti social behaviour and boredom is a pathetic excuse for violence and destruction to end on a positive note there was one young black man in the audience on young voter s question time who stated that it was the lack of respect for other people and their own communities that were the cause of the riots he too was unemployed and relatively poor he stated as were his friends but at the end of the day he remarked that his mother and other people in his community had instilled in him with respect for others and his fellow human beings this is the challenge that britain must now rise to and that is instilling a common value system based on respect for others and the rule of law in our young people this will involve a complete reversal in a lot of the social policy and a re imagining of the welfare state where individuals are encouraged to not see themselves as victims and passive recipients but as citizens with both rights and concomitant responsibilities towards members of your community posted by winstonsmith33 at 06 07 49 comments thursday 11 august 2011 riot talk in monotone on radio 5 i was on bbc radio 5 live with shelagh fogarty yesterday talking about the riots in my monotone voice with a clued up lady from manchester i wish they had given me an hour after my rant to play some seventies soul and jazz to soothe my mind after talking about social breakdown and the urban underclass click on the show for the 10th august it s roughly an hour in to the programme i am in the mail tomorrow friday the 12th for those of you who are interested link to radio posted by winstonsmith33 at 13 04 42 comments tuesday 9 august 2011 the riots in london are a culmination of decades of failed social policies the underclass are rising up no longer content with simply burglaring and mugging the decent law abiding working classes that have the misfortune to dwell amongst them they have now decided to torch and terrorise the very communities they come from what we are witnessing in london and in other cities across britain at the moment is an attack upon the decent and law abiding citizenry of the country their places of work have been attacked looted and even burned down opportunisitic burglaries have occured and violent attacks upon the police and innocent individuals are widespread fear is endemic and people are anticipating a fourth night of chaos and disorder the nation of britain is being brought to its knees by a festering amoral underclass that has been fostered by decades of failed social policies in the spheres of education criminal justice social services and by a well intentioned and necessary welfare state that has unwittingly produced an attitude amongst some young people that being a citizen of a country is all about what you can get without ever considering what you are contributing to the community that you come from the rightful abandonment of excessively harsh discipline only to swing to the extreme of having no discipline in schools along with the namby pamby non judgementalism that pervades social services and the youth offending service are all contributory factors to the chaos on our streets the police who purportedly exist to protect the masses of law abiding working communities from criminal elements and who exist to guard the peace are stymied in their efficacy by a political class that eschews robust policing when it is needed this morning on sky news the home secretary theresa may dismissed the option of using water cannon when she said the way we police in britain is not through use of water cannon the way we police in britain is through consent of communities i am sure if she consulted the vast majority of people on this island she would discover that very few people would be too concerned about a few thousand drenched tracksuits if it meant a return of law and order and an absence of terror within communities she then went on to assure us that people will start to see the consequences of their actions now just what will these consequences be you may ask well for those over eighteen whatever custodial sentences they do receive if any they will no doubt serve just a fraction of their sentences as is common for most criminals in the uk however in what will clearly be a perversion of justice those rioters under eighteen will be treated as if they too are the victims of the very crimes they have commited as this is the ethos at the heart of the youth justice system i know this from having worked alongside and in the youth offending service within a few weeks many of these rioters that you are now watching loot burn and terrorise on a twenty four news channel will be on an intensive surveillance and supervision programme where they will spend the majority of their sentence being escorted to gyms adventure centres dj courses and having their lunches bought and paid for and they will even be given the bus fares to attend their punishment there will be a minimum of community work as part of their issp and in some parts of the country the youth offending service will fail to implement this part of the issp i know this will occur because i have seen it first hand another part of their issp will involve them sitting in on classroom based sessions where staff will ask them what feelings they were experiencing prior to setting their community alight and how best they could channel those feelings in the future we may even get them to do some poster work as i have heard it referred to where they wi...