When did the British Nation die?

I was walking up King Street in South Shields last Saturday morning when I was confronted with a line of four prams abreast all with pushers talking on their mobile phones whilst attempting to have a conversation with each other, they all had Paris Hilton hairstyles and fatty bare deposits hanging over the waistbands of their “tracky bottoms”, I could see eight beer barrel sized hoops hanging from multi pierced ear lobes, and eight pristine white trainers at £90 per pair. The buggies were exclusively MacLaren and the owners can not have been aged any more than seventeen at the most.
No signs of any boys, men, fathers, or whoever was responsible for the joint production of the babies, however had they been their I can almost guarantee that they would have been dressed similarly (minus the ear hoops) but with baseball caps hiding their half shaven heads, fags hanging from the corner of the mouth, and a can of Carlsberg in the mit.
In some areas it’s a common sight, no longer shocks, and is certainly accepted by many of those who live around them on council estates where the house comes with no charges attached, rent paid, council tax paid, assistance with fuel bills, and no experience of ever having a job or intention of finding one. Straight from school (with Darren’s baby) a few months at home with mother and then decamped to a council home all of Chelsea’s own. Sorted, mint, spot on, innit?

Kids with kids, you see them all of the time.

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Violent Britain
Island savages
LONDON, once seen as a quiet and respectable sort of city, is in the grip of a culture de poignard, the French press have taken to reporting. On June 29th two students from the University of Clermont-Ferrand were found horribly murdered in the British capital. The bodies of the young men—bound, multiply stabbed and set alight—have inspired horror on both sides of the Channel. A grisly run of teenage murders before this episode had already caused Britons to wonder what is up.

England and Wales are not unusually murderous (see chart). The homicide rate is higher than anywhere in western Europe except Finland, Belgium and indeed France (though Britain edges ahead of France when Scotland and Northern Ireland are included). But Britain looks gentle next to former colonies such as Canada, New Zealand and especially America. And it compares favourably with the EU average, thanks to the new eastern European states: in Latvia and Lithuania homicide is five times as common as it is in Britain.

But there is more to life than avoiding death. When it comes to non-deadly violence Britain soars alarmingly ahead of the rest. Cross-country crime comparisons are tricky, but the International Crime Victims Survey (ICVS) is the best of the non-homicide bunch. In it people from 28 rich countries are asked if they have been attacked or threatened in the past five years. Britain comes second (after tiny Iceland), ahead of countries with much higher murder rates.

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Mayhem in Malia: The Crete resort where 100 British girls a day get the morning after pill Exclusive by Rebecca Evans In Malia, Crete 28/07/2008

We join the binge-drinking teens shaming our country on the streets of Crete

Instead of heading for the beach and the sunshine, she makes for the medical centre.

Extremely embarrassed and suffering from a crippling hangover, the young woman mumbles she needs a morning after pill, please.

After a night of drinking heavily and taking ecstasy in the Greek holiday hotspot of Malia, she had woken in a bed beside four men.

Like her, they were all British. Ripped and worn condoms were strewn on the floor, but the 24-year-old can't remember if she'd had sex ... or even used the protection.

This is just another Sunday afternoon at the Cretan Medicare Centre on the Greek island, one more holiday heaven turned into a hellhole by drunken, loutish Brits.
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'Out-of-control' British teens the worst behaved in EuropeBy LAURA CLARK

UK teens are the worst behaved in Europe, according to a new report
British teenagers are the worst behaved in Europe, a report has revealed.
They are more likely to binge-drink, take drugs, have sex at a young age and start fights.
The report, from a think-tank closely linked to Labour, says the collapse of family life is at least partly to blame.
It means youngsters follow the example set by their friends rather than guidance from their parents.
The damning verdict from the Institute for Public Policy Research was revealed as ministers prepared to publish a blueprint aimed at keeping teenagers out of trouble. It is expected to include more cash for youth groups and other activities.
But the institute says radical measures are needed. It says many disruptive youngsters will simply ignore out-of-school activities unless forced to attend.

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