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Thursday, November 30, 2006

CAMERON'S RESPONSE TO CRIME AND FATHERLESSNESS IS ENTIRELY INADEQUATE


Great Britain is suffering from many of the same social deficiencies that plague the U.S. In brief, as illegitimacy and the Platonic socialist state which facilitates it increase, more and more fatherless boys raised by single mothers supported by the dole become sociopathic criminals.

At the Corner, Iain Murray was apparently impressed by David Cameron's response:
Cameron Gets It Right [Iain Murray]
It's only fair to say when David Cameron gets things right, and I suspect his comments today on crime and fatherlessness are pretty much in tune with Conservative and popular thought.
Gets it right? Go to the linked Conservative Home "Tory Diary" and see what David Cameron actually had to say:
"I hope the men who left those boys’ mothers to bring them up alone are reflecting on their own responsibility this week."
Very good, David. That's the way the leader of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland should respond to the two remorseless teenagers who are believed responsible for 150 muggings in addition to the knife murder of a young lawyer for his cell phone: "hope" that their fathers are "reflecting on their own responsibility this week."

What do you think the chance of that is? And what good will it do, now?

The murdered man's father wrote in the Times, that "a lot more work needs to be done," and that's certainly true.

A Conservative leader worth the title would offer more than hand-wringing and platitudes.

Kim Du Toit described the problem here.

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