Truly, we are reaping the whirlwind of Thatcherite a-social sensibilities/insensibilities. On Jeremy Vine's show (BBC Radio 2) we were treated to "delightful" accounts of £6,000 to £10,000 of damage caused to homes when teenage children held parties while their cosily middle-class parents were away.
The fact that the "responsible" parents are able to laugh about it, in retrospect, I find extremely chilling. "Oh well, they've learned their lesson ...", seemed to be the attitude; the pampered middle class brats don't learn anything from parents who can put anything right with money. Society is sick, with such irresponsibility being condoned (albeit unwittingly) by parents having the material wherewithal to put things to rights.
Seems like the place of the 'lumpen-prols' has now been taken by 'lower order Hooray-Henry's'.
- living and frequently struggling with moderate M.E. -
where (bad) health, faith, politics and the joys and troubles of daily life collide.
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