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No respect, no morals, no trust - welcome to modern Britain

So it's not just me, then!

For here is Jeff Randall writing in today's Daily Telegraph:

"Our political leaders are falling short as we sink under a tide of
vulgarity and sleaze, says Jeff Randall."

"..... film of a Sheffield student relieving himself on a war memorial
was shown in the same news bulletins that covered the murder of five
British soldiers in Helmand."

"..... thieves stole the Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal
collection box from St Thomas's church in the town centre. In the week
of Remembrance Sunday, low-lifers had plumbed new depths."

"Do not tell me that these are isolated incidents........ We are, one
fears, in danger of becoming inured to disrespect."

"...... a trail of sweet wrappers, sandwich boxes and drink cans,
discarded on the grass verge by children walking to school. Every
morning they litter the streets, seemingly unaware of the mess piling
up....."

"...... the corrosion of deference in our schools, the abandonment of
manners on our streets and, yes, the death of respect for civility and
integrity. We are close to the point where ethical behaviour is
regarded as an affliction to be pitied, a loser's burden."

".......The still, small voice of conscience is rarely heard these
days. Conscience has been outsourced, delegated away.'

".....Teachers who seek to reprimand offensive pupils are attacked by
yobbish parents; train drivers who ask unruly gangs to get off are
beaten up. A vulnerable mother kills herself and her disabled daughter
after years of brutal abuse from thugs. This, I'm afraid, is the
reality of contemporary Britain, a sprawling no-respect zone."

"According to a study by the Institute for Public Policy Research,
Britain's teenagers are among the most badly behaved in Europe...."

"The IPPR's explanation for our dismal record is a collapse in family
and community life. In Italy, 93 per cent of 15-year-olds eat
regularly with their parents; in Britain, it is just 64 per cent. We
should not be surprised. The British state rewards unmarried mothers
with a level of benefits most would be unable to earn in legal
employment....."

" '.... Either we recover the moral sense or we will find, too late,
that in the name of liberty, we have lost our freedom.' "

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeffrandall/6510223/
No-respect-no-morals-no-trust---welcome-to-modern-Britain.html

MM

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