I expected better from Britain's third party.
"UK’s deputy PM pledges help for troubled youths after riots" September 22, 2011|By David Stringer, Associated Press
LONDON - Young people who looted stores as riots erupted across England last month were let down by a society that did not allow them to have faith in their own futures, Britain’s deputy prime minister said yesterday.
Addressing an annual rally of his Liberal Democrat party, Nick Clegg, the junior partner in Britain’s coalition government, pledged new help for disadvantaged youths to divert them from criminality....
“Nobody could fail to be horrified by what we saw during the riots,’’ Clegg said in a speech closing his party’s four-day rally. “These weren’t organized campaigns for change. They were outbursts of nihilism and greed.’’
Tell it to the banks, shitter!
See: Brief British Protest Coverage
Prime Minister David Cameron has blamed the disorder on Britain’s moral collapse, and the Conservative-led government has vowed to tackle gang culture and offer intensive help to the country’s 120,000 most troubled families.
That's what happens when you lie your people into wars.
Clegg said the riots had convinced him Britain must work more to help poor youngsters succeed in education.
But if there are no jobs waiting you get an Arab Spring!
“Too many of these young people had simply fallen through the cracks,’’ Clegg told the conference in the central English city of Birmingham. “Not just this summer but many summers ago when they lost touch with their own future. So often the people who have gone off the rails are the ones who were struggling years earlier.’’
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