The Looters

Well the press is having its fun.

We can send people to prison at the whim of the executive - well at least until recent anti-terrorism legislation you couldn't. So the next best thing is to humiliate people in the media.

The millionaire's daughter, the dance student, and the law student. They are going to be punished in the court of public opinion.

But don't get me wrong - they deserve it. My only observation is that this passes for justice now in Britain.

Of course a far higher proportion of impulse looters will have been caught than the harder corps, or at least those not terminally stupid enough to post their photos on Facebook & twitter along with their loot.

So we have a lot of analysis of the under classes in the press, some of it predictable, some very good. I can't do any better, or even delude myself to try.

What I will say is that a hidden world and the mainstream world clashed across the capital and then the country last week. ( Normally this only happens in a moment such as a mugging or burglary - that we have grown used to ignoring, if they even get reported ).

A friend of my wife's over a decade ago walked home with her baby in London and as she arrived home and turned to close the front door a thug jumped in behind her, put a knife to the child and demanded cash. I bet nearly everyone who lives in London has similar stories.

We also know, well those of us not in the fantasy world of left wing politics and its truth denial cult, that discipline in schools and on the streets has evaporated. We know that respect for truth, hard work, parents and other peoples property has gone and envy has taken over. ( As a mental exercise see how many of the ten commandments that little list breaks. )

All that was necessary for the Lord of the Flies act last week was for the police to look like they weren't in control, and then we had the explosion.

Many of the impulse rioters came from normal backgrounds. It is frightening the number of people who lie on their CV, routinely cheat. On TV shows like the apprentice being caught fibbing on your CV is almost treated as a sign of imitative.

This part of society has had a moral regression.

But the shocking stuff is in the jungle of the permanently unemployment, fatherless welfare dependent under class. Their world is frankly frightening. They live in virtual prisons limited to a certain post code that their gang controls ( and don't even start about the initiation rituals - especially for the girls ).

They are the result of the moral pollution that has been washed down from the middle classes that has dissolved the type of society that held things together for them in the past ( things like marriage, respect for parents enforced by the back of a present fathers hand, and people who respected teachers and others - and would take their side without question against their children's ).

And finally let us not forget that their is a political philosophy based on looting - socialism. Most of the political representatives in the areas affected are from the party to support using the state to loot and then spends the loot so ineffectively to make things worse ( mostly this is due to the utter incompetence of many left wing activists - but some do it deliberately to destroy society to bring about the repressive socialist utopia that Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot were such fine examples of).

The looters are firstly Labour's children. They are directly the responsibility of the Guardian reading class. They are also responsible for themselves and must take their punishment - but whilst that's happening ( or in many cases not happening ) lets not forget who's mistakes made it necessary.

Here again is another reason for Ed Miliband to hang his head in shame, resign and go away and rethink his life and the hurt his party has caused to others. But he won't as he, along with Harriet Harman, is one of the biggest looters of them all.