As a person in my sixties I have experienced great (as in large) social change and makeup of my once respected and influential country.
When I was young there was still food rationing after a world war (no riots though), murderers were hung at the gallows, you got caned hard at school for not doing what you were told, violent young thugs were birched or sent to Borstal and there was respect for your elders and authority especially the Police. You feared the police as a youngster but at the same time you could park your car/bicycle and not worry about locking it, leave your house open and trust your neighbours and if violence broke out the police ran to it and dealt with it good and hard rather than dressing up in armour and running from it. The law abiding felt safe and communities upheld values.
However since the mid sixties those with social influence in our country (the liberal left) have had their way, bit by bit, undermining the family structure and our traditional values that were once the envy of the world. We now have evolved into a society where the criminals are excused and indeed told that they are the victims, whilst the values of decent people have been ignored. Let us hope that this is a wake up call so that these excuses for criminal behaviour are challenged and replaced by a more robust traditional set of values. How shameful it is that now four decent people have lost their lives due to the selfish violent actions of a load of lowlife scum.
The question is, we have now had the political rhetoric for punishing the lowlife but will it happen?
