Fair or Not? Family gets evicted from council home because son was a rioter

[generalbulldog]

No, the government is getting it wrong and ignoring all the reasons behind why Britain is such a mess. Sure it might look good "Ooh, we are tough on rioters and those who raised people who would riot", but it's silly. The family are not to blame directly. Give the kid 2 years in prison and a prison without all the comforts that prisons have today. We need to be tough on crime once again and attacking extended family is not going about it in the right way.

Give police officers power, let teachers use a cane and stop giving council housing to teenage mothers. Things will start to change, these stop gap short term actions just piss off more of the vermin class riff raff. It solves nothing.

The "Government" got it wrong a long time ago by listening to all them bleeding heart do-gooders in the past and this is part of the results. Bring back corporal punishment and see if things don't change.

My parents were what you called "old school." They didn't tolerate any bullshit in the household. Didn't do our homework? Well here comes the cane and loss of privileges. Disrespecting our elders? 5 fingers across the face. I wanted a playstation game as a 16 year old? Get a summer job. Wanted a car? Get a job and at least pay for the insurance and they'll look into getting a used one. They also checked my grades along with my other siblings and what classes we were taking. Made sure we took AP classes, made sure we got on top of applying to the universities during our senior year of HS, etc. They also looked into who were our friends and whether or not they were good kids. They were very active in our lives. In short, they instilled morals and responsibilities in their kids. They didn't believe in all this time out bullshit that parents today are raising their kids. They didn't believe in letting the tv or internet or playstations raise their kids. Real old school.

Something that the bleeding hearts disagree with and believes that the parents are not to be held accountable for having a screw up kid. It's always someone else's fault, never the parents.