Crime is now the largest concern of the electorate according to a recent survey.Let us consider why crime today is so prevalent in our tortured society - always remembering that the familiar leftwing excuse of 'poverty' simply holds little water as today we only have relative poverty and must be compared to the 30s.
1] Sentencing levels have plummeted since 1950.
2] There is a PC belief that "inside every offender is an honest citizen struggling to get out" which is manifestly untrue in the majority of cases. I know. I have sat on the Bench!
3] Communities have become fragmented - one consequence of which being that no longer can a yob expect to have bad behaviour immediately reported to parents who have a local reputation to maintain.
4] Family breakdown - and in particular the rise of the single parent family.
5] Discipline within the home is wretched. Children are allowed to push back boundaries, challenge parents, be bribed to behave. Many are given no responsibilities in the home.
6] Moral teaching; righteousness is largely absent.
7] The concept of 'shame' has been calculatedly removed by the do-gooders and politically correct lobby.
8] Discipline has declined in schools. Pupils are now being taught by teachers who themselves have only a limited understanding of discipline from their own upbringing - an extremely worrying point.
9] Courts refuse or are unable to pass realistic sentences on adults and youths in particular.
10] There is no element of fear for offenders.
11] Local neighbourhoods do not unite and demand action.
12] The Police appear to have given up - their bosses happier to see them form-filling and training in 'diversity issues' rather than catching and preventing crime.
13] There is a profoundly dishonest pretence that 'community punishments work.
14] Drug use is not controlled and alcohol treated as a joke.
15] Believe me when I say that prisons are too 'user friendly' - I have visited three.
16] People are not required to take responsibility for their actions.
17] Children have instant access to pornography, extremely violent films and games thus desensitising them.
18] Childhood ends too early and has been replaced with an ersatz sophistication.
19] The left simply do not believe that most crime stems from greed, selfishness and often, downright wickedness.
20] Why do people offend? - Because we permit them to.
21] There is no effective Christian teaching in our nation.
22] The God-fearing element in our society is absent.
23] The left see Man as the author of his own salvation.
24] In a Godless, mechanistic, dog-eat-dog, evolutionary universe - why behave?
25] Crime pays.
*We have a broken society. Can you be surprised when we have got so much wrong - with almost all of these problems originating from the left of centre and never repaired by the right of centre?
**We have now reached a stage when only the severest of punishments can be the quick fix. The other areas, in many cases are beyond rescue.
