I was quite surprised to see the following item in the Daily Mail. I know that it is my view that Labour did immense harm to the British society, in particular to our children, whilst in power for 14 years.
But I did not expect the Labour party to actually agree!!
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Ed Miliband has admitted Labour is to blame for undermining the ethics of British society.
The Labour leader conceded yesterday that the moral decay which David Cameron has blamed for the looting occurred on Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s watch.
He admitted: ‘We did better at rebuilding the fabric of our country than the ethic of our country.’
But in his most provocative comments on the causes of the riots, Mr Miliband claimed that the mayhem of the last week was partly caused by poverty, an argument already made by his deputy Harriet Harman.
‘We have got to ask why do we have people in our society who feel that the way they can get on and the right thing to do is go and nick the telly, engage in the kind of looting we saw,’ he said. ‘We have got to avoid simplistic answers. There’s a debate some people are starting: is it culture, is it poverty and lack of opportunity? It’s probably both.’
Polls show that the public rejects claims from left-wing politicians that poverty and cuts causes lawbreaking.
One survey this week found that just 8 per cent of voters believe the Government’s cuts were to blame for the riots.
Mr Miliband said the riots showed young people have no ‘sense of right and wrong’ and sought to claim the rioters were the same as bankers. ‘It’s about irresponsibility, wherever we find it in our society.’
