Its not often I come over all Daily Mail but .....

Watching the events of the last three evenings has left me sickened and totally disgusted with the behaviour of a minority of thugs.


Witness the young masked yob interviewed on Sky News who took great delight in swearing live on air, and when asked why he was engaging in the violence replied "because I can".  He admitted that he had gone into the City Centre of Manchester just to take part in the "riot" and thuggery.


What has annoyed me even more has been the reaction of some of the bleeding heart woolly liberals who are trying to make excuses for this lawlessness by trying to put the blame onto government cuts.  Trying to claim that it is all down to the fact that these poor lambs have nothing to do because youth centres and what have you are having to close down because funding is apparently being cut.


Complete and utter nonsense.  There is no excuse at all for smashing up a shop and making off with a 50" plasma TV under your arm.  There is no excuse at all for torching somebody's business premises, robbing them of their livelihood.  My heart went out to the family in Croydon who's furniture business - in existence for 140 years - which had survived two World Wars, the Great Depression of the 1930s and the recession in the 80s only to be totally destroyed by mindless arsonist criminals.


To quote my buddy Scott: "I left School with ZERO exams; I done alright for myself but I dont go looting and blaming the 'system' for the things I aint got.. I just work harder..."


At a guess I would say that the majority of the young scrotes are the offspring of parents who were at school when the rot began to set in in the mid 80s - I refer of course to the time when thanks to the interference of Brussels and the efforts of a load of bleeding heart liberals teachers lost the main tool of keeping discipline in school - namely the cane.


From that point on, kids knew that teachers couldn't touch them - without running the risk of being done for assault.  We are now reaping the seeds of that whirlwind where we have a breed of feral youths who think they can do what they like, where they like and when they like


The Police need to have their hands untied - all too often when they appear to be standing around watching trouble kick off, they are bound by the damned "Health and Safety Rules" and having to carry out umpteen risk assessments - time to get rid and let the Police get on and do their job without them being hidebound by ridiculous red tape.


We also need to get rid of the attitude that we don't carry out our Policing in a certain way.  The Police should have access to the fullest possible range of tools to assist them and if that means baton rounds, plastic/rubber bullets, water cannon and so on then so be it.


Time as well for more effective penalties - particularly against the feral kids.  ASBOs were a waste of space, more often than not they were seen as a "badge of honour", with young thugs competing against each other to collect as many as they could.  Fines, tagging, Police Cautions and whatever are ineffective.


Our Magistrates and Judiciary need to be able to deliver a short, sharp shock to these feral thugs.  Obviously, nobody is going to have the balls to stick two fingers up to the ECHR and bring back the birch but I think it needs to happen.  Before the Isle of Man was forced to give up the punishment in 1983, nobody ever went back for a second dose or reoffended as an adult.


Borstal Training submitted young offenders to a strict disciplinary regime - which is exactly what most of these feral young thugs need.


And while we're at it, maybe a stint of proper National Service wouldn't do them any harm either.


Like I said, its not often I come over all Daily Mail but .....