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Originally Posted by Richard
I was listening to the BBC report on this and they offered the following:
Extremely high youth unemployment (under 30 crowd) + lengthy on-going severe economic recession + govt reducing unemployment benefits combined with newly enacted tax increases which have hit those occupying the lowest rungs on the economic ladder the hardest + opportunity = the current mayhem.
UK unemployment = 7.7%
UK youth unemployment = 21%
It will be interesting to see what happens next.
Richard  |
Hmm.
I suspect that most of the people I saw looting and robbing wouldn't do an honest day's work if it ware handed to them on a silver platter.
Liberal justification for the welfare state.
TR
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