From the New York Times:
Britain's urban wastelands need constructive attention from the Cameron government, not just punishment. His government's wrongheaded austerity policies have meant fewer public sector jobs and social services. Even police strength is scheduled to be cut. The poor are generally more dependent on government than the affluent, so they have been hit the hardest.
What Britain's sputtering economy really needs is short-term stimulus, not more budget cutting. Unfortunately, there is no sign that Mr. Cameron has figured that out. But, at a minimum, burdens need to be more fairly shared between rich and poor – not as a reward to anyone, but because it is right.
Quite so.
Well said.
Spot on.
And all that.
Except I mean it. Most emphatically.
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Amazing what a bit of analytical distance will do, isn’t it? I’ve read similar pieces in der Spiegel and a number of Irish papers over the past week. Nobody outside of England is buying the ‘criminality pure and simple’ delusion.