WHAT WILL BE LEFT?

A known gun toting member of the criminal scummunity is shot dead by the police during an incident on the outskirts of London. As the old saying goes, live by the sword and die by the sword, or in this case live by the gun and die by the gun.

Following this incident, which these days with our more readily armed police is not an uncommon occurrence, there then follows a protest outside the police station which eventually erupts into mass violence and looting.

Sadly, in our modern Britain we have all witnessed riots over the years in various cities, not least in the Handsworth and Lozells area of the Midlands, which is in this bloggers part of the world. Those events were sparked off due to claims of police harassment, also the rape of a girl set rioting off. This too was close to Perry Barr where two girls were machine gunned outside a New Years Eve party in a case of gang warfare a few years ago. Those of the older generation view the Britain we live in today as nothing like that of the Britain of the pre and post war years.

I was born into what was called the slums of Birmingham a couple of years after the war. The slums then were a place where people were poor and owned very little. In those days there were some rough families many who the police knew well. There was drunkenness, including my old granddad on more than one occasion, but on the whole people respected the law.

The odd thing is, when you compare what was termed living as in poverty in those days, to what is called poverty today, those from the slums of old would consider poverty of today as living like royalty.

In days gone by poverty was not having a job and means testing, living hand to mouth and often relying on the charity of others. Poverty of today is classed by the number of material things not owned. Those classed as living in poverty have fridges in their homes, TV’s, videos, computers and access to the internet. They have cars and mobile phones and they also expect the state to keep them as a right. When I say the state I mean the working population at large whose taxes keep them.

In those poverty ridden days of old, people did not own all the trinkets and technology of the modern poor, but they had morals and shame. Those communities gossiped, if a girl got herself in trouble out of wedlock it was a disgrace, these days it is almost obligatory for young girls to have one or more offspring in tow by different feckless fathers. People conformed because of the shame they incurred if they did things that shocked their community – no matter how poor it was. No one felt the state owed them anything either, they had to work and save to get what they wanted.

People wanted out of the slums and if they were going to achieve this it was up to them, this inspired people to achieve for their families, which were usually close knit and the norm. These days families are dysfunctional, husband and wives are no longer the norm – most have partners who move on leaving an assortment of kids behind them.

It was in those times, like many others who wanted better for their families and themselves, people worked to rise up the ranks in their places of employment, or set up small businesses, as did my dad (in the photo with me as a child).

In those days the tax authorities had less power and more common sense. Small business owners were mostly left to their own devices. We had less regulations and Government interference – we were not in the EU either which is the big obstacle for most entrepreneurs these days. The country could flourish, businesses prosper and jobs created.

These days we all have more regarding trappings, the sort of things that few could dream of in those post war days, but as a society we have less.

For the law abiding we have a fear of venturing into certain areas, we have a fear of the increased power of the state and the undermining of our democracy, but for many there is no fear. They have no fear of prison or the law, punishment is nothing to them. They feel they are owed by the state either when they are on the streets or in prison. Crime is not something to be punished, these days the criminal is classed as the misunderstood, whose rights should be held up in prison. They even feel, with the EU’s blessing, they should have a right to vote from behind bars even though they may have created mayhem in the community whose politicians they will be voting for.

The riots have nothing to do with cuts in local services as many left wing politicians claim, in fact it is due to the constant drip feeding and pollution of left leaning and liberal political views that we find a whole generation of youth can use a poor excuse of the death of a known and violent criminal for their actions. They care not for society, for decency, families or moral values – why should they when they were always taught that these values are wrong.

Because our values of the past have been abandoned we now have a feral generation destroying everything of those who still care, who still work and still have morals. What will be left when the decent people give up, pack up and leave? There is getting less and less to stay for in our lawless, morals-less, crime ridden and increasingly pointless nation.