Britain's liberal intelligentsia has smashed virtually every social value

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Britain's liberal intelligentsia has smashed virtually every social value

By Melanie Phillips

Last updated at 8:33 AM on 11th August 2011

So now the chickens have well and truly come home terrifyingly to roost. The violent anarchy that has taken hold of British cities is the all-too-predictable outcome of a three-decade liberal experiment which tore up virtually every basic social value.

The married two-parent family, educational meritocracy, punishment of criminals, national identity, enforcement of the drugs laws and many more fundamental conventions were all smashed by a liberal intelligentsia hell-bent on a revolutionary transformation of society.

Those of us who warned over the years that they were playing with fire were sneered at and smeared as Right-wing nutters who wanted to turn the clock back to some mythical golden age.

Now we can see what they have brought about in the unprecedented and horrific scenes of mob violence, with homes and businesses going up in flames, and epidemic looting.
 
Clearly, there is some as yet unidentified direction and co-ordination behind the anarchy. But what is so notable and distressing is that, after the first day when adults were clearly involved, this mayhem has been carried out in the main by teenagers and children, some as young as eight.

Libs Win (Lose) Again?

[DumbAss Tanker]

One of the stranger parts of British politics is that much of the stupidest, most long-term-destructive things (Such as their virtual prohibition of self-defense) originated in the House of Lords, not the Commons.  It becomes easier to grasp when you realize that rather than being the Conservative bastion one might think, Lords is heavily peopled by folk who have a paternalistic attitude to the populace and are thoroughly-indoctrinated products of the British academic Left (Which gave us such great patriots as Kim Philby and his ring of spy friends...well, they were great patriots for the Soviet Union, anyway!), many of whom are old money and completely out of touch with the value of actually having to earn their way in the world.

[JohnnyReb]

One of the stranger parts of British politics is that much of the stupidest, most long-term-destructive things (Such as their virtual prohibition of self-defense) originated in the House of Lords, not the Commons.  It becomes easier to grasp when you realize that rather than being the Conservative bastion one might think, Lords is heavily peopled by folk who have a paternalistic attitude to the populace and are thoroughly-indoctrinated products of the British academic Left (Which gave us such great patriots as Kim Philby and his ring of spy friends...well, they were great patriots for the Soviet Union, anyway!), many of whom are old money and completely out of touch with the value of actually having to earn their way in the world.

Heard that complaint from the X-wifes British family and that was almost 30 years ago...it's even worse now. Back then you could at least hit the crook with a bat if he were in the house. Now if they break into your house, you're supposed to leave your house and let them have their way.

Hey, don't fret, it will be that way here soon enough.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Hey, don't fret, it will be that way here soon enough.

Nuh-uh.  Hogs need to eat too.