“Charles is absolutely correct with his comments about generations growing up without discipline. But the child is now king and it is perfectly acceptable to change a baby's nappy, in the pub at 11pm (see what happens if you were to compain about that - it would make Charles' point perfectly, as you were sworn at by the parents!). However, an interesting point is that we are currently governed by a state machine with powers and surveillance technology that would make Stalin and Hitler proud. This has had no noticeable effect on the levels of crime or making citizens feel safer, as any of you who dare to venture into the high street of any UK market town on a Friday night will attest. The databases set up by the state do not seem to have prevented the likes of Vanessa George, or Ian Huntly, from committing their crimes and, if anything, will lull us into a false sense of security. There is also the ill thought-out legislation, banning everything that does not fit in with the government's politically correct ideology and criminalising most of the tax-paying public by use of pettyfogging legislation, whilst our government behaves as if it were above the law. All of this whilst making us pay for the priveledge of being governed by people who believe that they know better than us and that we are not intelligent enough to make our own decisions.”

“:| Interesting comments David. . We all made 'mistakes' of course. . :( My wife even insists I still do! . Can you believe it?!!. . However it's only those who still believe in all this 'free expression' nonsense and no discipline of the 'modern' generations. . That can't see what the solution will have to be. . Whilst we have second and third generation scr*tes bringing up scr*tes, and no political will to restore proper discipline and manners in the home or schools; and also a fear of the PC Consequences if they do; nothing will change. . What kept most of us on the straight and narrow, was a clear sense of what's right and wrong. . We had boundaries that we learnt to respect. . The consequences of not doing so were the stuff of the playground legends.”

“Not criminalising these youngsters at an early age does seem to be a good idea; I would defy anyone who has posted a comment on here to say that they have never made a mistake when they were in their youth. However, we also need to address the causes of crime at their root source. It seems to me that the example set by this corrupt government is not a good one and if our leaders are seen to behave in such a poor manner (lying to the electorate, expenses fiddles, perceived illegal wars, the gerrymandering that we are likely to see in the run-up to the election), then that becomes the acceptable norm. Neither does it help that, over the last ten years or so, the government have sought to manipulate the crime figures by moving the goalposts - things that are 'crimes' in most peoples' books are called 'antisocial behaviour' by the government. The standard of 'acceptable' behaviour has been lowered to such an extent as to be almost non-existent, along with manners and consideration for others.
Incidentally, this sort of behaviour is exemplified on here by the rudeness of the comments made by Henry Blince, on a daily basis, who seems to believe that anyone disagreeing with him is wrong and has not got the wit or imagination to accept that there are opinions other than his own.”

“:) That low are you Henry? . . :( Gee.”

“It's not possible to be inferior to you Charles. The scale doesn't go any lower.”