Quote Originally Posted by Dedworth View Post
"People steal and are not punished for it; they do not work, yet receive money. If they have more children than they can manage, they simply receive more money from the state. Those that do want to work at school are held back whilst resources are directed towards those who don't. The incentives in our society are perverse. And because young people are denied a decent education, those who should have been leaders at school, as head boys or sports captains, are leaders of gangs."
He has a point but he doesn't seem to realise or accept that the governments he was a part of encouraged those "perverse incentives". Unless I've missed him saying they got it wrong? And this is why his party haven't won an election for nearly 20 years and will probably not win one for another 20, unless they wake up.