Saturday, April 7, 2012

Unfair Distribution of Wealth Respnsible for Riots.




England’s unrest was in part due to the deprivation of hundreds of thousands of the forgotten families who made up the bottom rung of the society, an independent panel into last August unrest has said.


Darra Singh, chairman of the Riots, Communities and Victims Panel, stressed that the government should give everyone a “stake in society,” as '' There are 500,000 forgotten families, bumping along the bottom, unable to change their lives.''

''When people don't feel they have a reason to stay out of trouble, the consequences for communities can be devastating - as we saw last August,'' Singh said.

The report also underlined a lack of opportunities for young people, widespread illiteracy, failure of the justice system to rehabilitate offenders, poor parenting, materialism, and distrust of the police as the key factors to the summer unrest that swept all over England.

The panel was appointed by Prime Minister David Cameron and his Deputy Nick Clegg after violence erupted in the capital and major cities in England after the police shot a young black man Mark Duggan in Tottenham.

The report concluded, “The key to avoiding future riots is to have communities that work.” suggesting the government should fine the schools, which fail to teach children to read well, support the forgotten families, provide job positions for the young people, and urge the primary and secondary schools to carry out regular evaluations of students’ strength of character.

Labour MP for Hackney, Diane Abbott, said that the communities were under pressure of the police and marginalized by their job prospects, and have been “bombarded with reminders of lives they will, in all likelihood, never have.”

Condemning the coalition government’s harsh austerity measures, Abbott also said, ''In the week after we have seen the top rate of tax for millionaires cut, and the Conservative Party hawking intimate dinners with the Prime Minister for £250,000 [$381,512] a go.”

“I think communities like mine are absolutely sick of being told: 'We're all in this together', when it's absolutely clear that we're not all in it together.''

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