
People have accused him of using the Doncaster torture case for political ends, but when David Cameron says
this is a part of what is "going wrong" with society, isn't he speaking the truth?
You would disagree with Cameron perhaps if this was an isolated incident, if this was two particularly evil little boys doing unspeakable things, but it was as regular as a solar eclipse. But over the last few months we've seen a multitude of stories like this about social services getting it wrong and children dying because of either neglect or parental abuse; of children and teenagers going out and seriously hurting or killing fellow human beings.
And no matter how angry we may be with the boys who did this, we must remember that, considering their
"toxic" upbringing, they didn't stand a chance. Horrifically, they probably don't know any better. And from the sounds of it, neither did the parents:
The boys' mother, who has seven sons including the two defendants, described to a consultant psychiatrist being subjected to serious violence by their father.
Which surely shows that this a serious long-term problem, as most things seem to be in Britain these days.
You want to see politicking? Take Liam Bryne's response to the speech:
What Mr Cameron appears to be trying to do is seizing on one absolutely horrific crime and almost tarring the people of Doncaster, if not the people of Britain, with the same kind of standards and I think that people will recoil from that."
To me, that is dismissing any valid point David Cameron is making simply because he's a Conservative. And don't get me wrong - this is a long term problem, going back decades, and the Conservatives are probably just as much to blame as Labour or anyone else.
Frankly, we have to accept that some people shouldn't have children. What's the way forward? And is this all a result of the "broken society"? Or are some people innately going to be poor parents? And what do we do about it? I want your views.
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