LABOUR'S disgusting Tony Blair has added his voice to the clamour from the right wing Tory tabloids for tougher action against teenage tearaways.
As John Major leaps on the law-and-order barwagon and Home Sec retary Kenneth Clarke costs out schemes to jail more 15-year olds. Blair, too, opts for the easy route of blaming individual youth for the rock.
ting crime wave But while the reactionaries swag criminals of society get away scotWhy focus on the petty crime of youth nicking videos and joyriding governnent, acting on behalf of its big busiplundered bilions from the poor and the working dass and while top-paid tax evaders daily rip off milions more?
winty snould bein get so excited about the highly-publicised anti- social violence of a minority of youth, while lifting not a finger to combat the brutal anti-social policies of a Tory government - whose deiberate creation of ripped the heart out of whole working class communities?
Thatcherism
Youth berated by Major and now by Blair for their lack of social responbiity could quite legitimately re spond that they are simply carrying through Margaret Thatcher's famous Blair wants to give cops more powers to beat up youth as society, just individuals and their Literally millions of working class youth now find themsetres caught in a blind aley. Tory policies, driven by capitalist crisis, have robbed them of у по o d occer co, oi a house of any social status, whie besieging them with the adverting images of a consumerist society.
They are systematically ignored by the unions and labour Pary offer nothing to youth and make no Denied any collective voice or expression for their frustration, if they let