Cutbacks to blame for Student Rioting?

Pull the other one!

Did police cutbacks allow extremists to hijack student demonstrations?

The head of the police squad tackling domestic extremism was forced to quit days before anarchist students smashed their way into the Tory Party headquarters,  wrote the Telegraph’s Investigations Editor Jason Lewis 14 Nov 2010, as critics called for an investigation into the cuts amid fears that they may have contributed to the Metropolitan Police’s handling of Wednesday’s demonstrations.

  It was little more than organised mayhem and for what? Are the universities that spawned this outrage going to stand back and try to say: ‘Mea Non Culpa’  There has to be something amiss inside our universities if students think this is a good way to carry-on, maybe they’ve got too much spare time on their hands and it’s a case of  ‘idle hands make mischief’.

  Bring back the cane? It never did me any harm and I had it dished up a few times at grammar school during my formative years. It seems to me the root of a lot of our social problems today, stem from indiscipline in the home and the school.

  In other respects, for reporters to try making political capital out of re-organisation and promotion within the Police Force seems to be slightly disingenuous to me. Everybody has to accommodate these cuts one way or another and we really are all in this together, whether we like the idea or not.

  So let’s get the nasty medicine out of the way soonest and not go off half-cocked at anything which looks like an easy target.  It’s time for a bit of commonsense, after new Labour and the boy Gordie’s attempts to project the idea that they knew better. If they did they would never have got us into this mess, in the first place. But it happens everytime they get elected. Will we ever learn?

Watch this space, I’ll be back!

Tom.