Tom Watson is unspeakably awful: “in West Bromwich, East, my neighbours are driven to misery by teenagers who create mayhem late at night. Although they conduct relatively minor acts of antisocial behaviour, they belong to the generation that can graduate to street crime and violent car-jacking.“
If you replace everything from “driven to misery” onwards with “miserable whining bastards who think that young people socialising with their friends is roughly equivalent to axe-murder”, then he’d be entirely correct.
I’m also puzzled by the ‘generation’ thing – does he just mean ‘young people’? Or does he mean that people born in the late 1980s are more likely than others to become carjackers, perhaps because of residual evil transmitted by Mrs Thatcher in her final years?
"People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any act of Parliament." A.P.Herbert
What a creep. What exactly does he mean by ‘relatively minor acts of antisocial behaviour’? For someone whose heart obviously bleeds for his neighbours ‘driven to misery’ by these minor acts, it’s a pity that his sympathetic nature does not extend to the teenagers too.
Perhaps just a little understanding from people like him, as well as a real effort to sort out the problems these teenagers face, and this ‘misery’ could be lessened. Instead, his solutions would probably be to slap them with ‘anti-social behaviour’ orders whilst woefully predicting they will undoubtedly become car-jackers because they hang out on street corners. His logic is quite beyond me.
Violent carjackers? They’re the worst kind.