Liberal Dogma = 'Feral Children' = Rioting and Looting

Max Hastings starts a bit of a verbal riot of his own with his UK Daily Mail article headline, "Years of liberal dogma have spawned a generation of amoral, uneducated, welfare dependent, brutalised youngsters."

Hastings cites several examples, including the now widely-reported comments to media by a female looter, who hopes for another night of rioting and fun. "It's the government's fault, though. The Conservatives. It's not even a riot. It's showing the police we can do what we want," she says, adding later, "It's the rich people. The people who have got businesses. That's why all this is happening. We're just showing the rich people we can do what we want."

Writes Hastings,

So there we have it: a large, amoral, brutalised sub-culture of young British people who lack education because they have no will to learn, and skills which might make them employable. They are too idle to accept work waitressing or doing domestic labour, which is why almost all such jobs are filled by immigrants.

They have no code of values to dissuade them from behaving anti-socially or, indeed, criminally, and small chance of being punished if they do so.

They have no sense of responsibility for themselves, far less towards others, and look to no future beyond the next meal, sexual encounter or TV football game.

They are an absolute deadweight upon society, because they contribute nothing yet cost the taxpayer billions. Liberal opinion holds they are victims, because society has failed to provide them with opportunities to develop their potential. Most of us would say this is nonsense. Rather, they are victims of a perverted social ethos...

They are products of a culture which gives them so much unconditionally that they are let off learning how to become human beings. My dogs are better behaved and subscribe to a higher code of values than the young rioters of Tottenham, Hackney, Clapham and Birmingham.