He wasn’t. He was a Royal Marine unarmed combat instructor. Ouch for two muggers.

http://brockley.blogspot.com/2010/03/late-weekending.html?showComment=1268127922606#c6418839231543529384

The Brothers who play their mobiles on the bus are merely reclaiming public space for the Proletariat from the chains of slavery of ‘correct’ capitalist behaviour and the correct response is to clap and tap your feet in support.

You shall reap as you sew….

Seems the muggers weren’t shit scared of that ASBO cetificate you were going to reward them ?

And do you think it is OK for burglars to target other neighbourhoods? Which people in particular do you not mind having to suffer robbery? Doctors? Lawyers? Teachers? Train Drivers? All of these people earn more than the average wage which technically qualifies them as at least middle class.

I had a friend who was terribly innocent as a teenager and he joined the SWP after his experiences at Wapping and some other 80′s picket lines. He once said to me something along the lines of:

‘It would be great to live in a socialist society where everyone pulled together, but some people are just wasters and thugs’

Which I think fairly neatly sums up exactly why the left have it so wrong, their politics do not fit over the human condition, just over an idealistic version of it.

@DAN “There are many non-Police jobs that are important in these kinds of situations and have disappeared. Putting conductors back on buses, recruiting more park attendants etc, would go a long way to helping here, as well as creating thousands of jobs.”

Do you plan on paying higher travel costs, entry fees to parks etc. or will these jobs be created out of that bottomless pit of money we have available to us? Remember you are proposing state jobs that are a drain on the available resource, so you may find it hard to justify the cost over benefit. Although socialists tend not to think like that do they? Money is just something you print more of when you run out isn’t it?

Your distaste for the BNP is palpable.

The current leadership of the Labour party are, of course, the fuel that makes the BNP successful.

The fastest way to extinguish the BNP, is to do a hit job on senior figures in the Labour party. If you are holding a whip round to pay for the hits, let me know. I don’t mind chipping in.

To answer the “deliberately provocative” (oooh!) title question directly: lefties should cherish each and every one of them as 1) you have collectively (ha) spent the past hundred years creating them, and 2) they provide your sole raison d’être. Just think. You all might have to get proper jobs if things actually improved.

A terse response, yes. But then your post merits such. It may have felt like a brilliantly insightful treatise when you exuded it but to me it reads like a mediocre GCSE Sociology essay, all half-grasped theories and stumbling speculation. I do hope you’re not actually an adult.