Teenagers heckle UK PM during speech
Press TV – August 15, 2011
A group of British teenagers heckled Prime Minister David Cameron, when he was addressing his constituency gathering in Witney, Oxfordshire about a broken society.
Cameron was heckled by the teenagers when he made a pledge to reverse the moral collapse in the society and to fix Britain’s “broken society”, according to the British media reports.
The Prime Minister declared “a concerted, all-out war on what he called as gangs and gang culture”.
“It is a major criminal disease that has infected streets and estates across our country,” he said.
Cameron announced a series of tough measures, among them plans to have school leavers take part in a National Citizen Service, to deal with social problems.
Under the plan, Cameron pledged to introduce a non-military national service program, in which it would be obligatory for all 16-year-olds to participate and spend time volunteering in hospitals and community centres.
But the young audience was unimpressed, heckling the Conservative leader.
“He is blaming everyone but himself,” said Jake Parkinson, 17, unemployed. “The rich get richer, the poor get poorer. I’d love to go to university, but it’s the money that is putting me off.”
There were whistles when Cameron entered the stuffy, cramped room and “chicken” noises at the end from teenagers who accused him of leaving early and being too scared to answer all of their questions.
Many in Witney said they thought the biggest threat to public order came from a government austerity drive that they say will inevitably lead to the closure of social services funded by the state or third parties, such as charities.
“He wants people to get in touch with their families, but for some people their families aren’t there and the youth centre is the only place where they can talk to people,” said Ryan Clayton, 15. “But he’s shutting all the youth centres.”
Unemployed father-of-two Martin Lawson Smith said the wide gap between Britain’s rich and poor had fuelled the discontent.
“I don’t think broken families and morals are the problem,” he said. “It’s more the inequality that there is in society.”
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Prime Minister David Cameron as wrong. He lacks understanding and is merely reacting as a reactionary does with “Law and Order” edicts and asinine statements that proves calling the youth feckless is merely haughty projection of his arrogance in ineptitude.
PM Cameron’s call for ‘…it would be obligatory for all 16-year-olds to participate and spend time volunteering in hospitals and community centres…’ is nothing less than involuntary servitude, which is tantamount to slavery and prohibited 13th Amendment of the US Constitution, I feel boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against the UK is in order!
The moral values of the youth are better than that of the Britain as proven by its chronic war crimes. Britain need to repent as much as the United States for its sins. I must remind the “holier than tho” PM of what he must have been raised knowing.:
‘……. He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes, or decide by what he hears with his ears; but with righteousness he will judge the needy, with justice he will give decisions for the poor of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked… and a little child will lead them……’ Isaiah 11:1-11
Jesus said ‘…… ‘I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven……’ Matthew 18:2-4
So, the bloody old empire is shaken, and they compare it to the blitz! Such is the rhetoric of liars, or worse; those who are intent on using deadly force, the very spark that ignited the uprising.
I think what really gulls the ruling class is that the youth nailed them, in saying that they are only doing what they have been doing, and rightly so.
Emperor a new suit of clothes that are invisible to those unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent. When the Emperor parades before his subjects in his new clothes, a child cries out, “But he isn’t wearing anything at all!” — “The Emperor’s New Clothes” by Hans Christian Andersen
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