I like that your PM wants to treat it as a criminal problem. That almost sounds liberal of him....much the same way we should treat terrorists as a criminal problem and not a political problem.
But I do think they should rethink cutting so many things when so many are out of work. It will just feed into the criminal element.
Well, we have just had Question Time and the panel admitted that the sort of things people think in the heat of the moment were not really a good idea and although people may want this now, it really was too simplistic.
A couple of things on QT caught my attention. What sort of an example have these kids been given? They are brought up in a society which values what you can buy and the people who are 'running' that society, politicians, bankers and police have all themselves recently been found lacking on the moral front.
The second was an idea a member of the audience had. Rather than sending them to prison, they could get them repairing the communities they had destroyed. In that way they could learn some skills which might help them to then be able to earn a living.
A lot of the program sounded like a parenting class because so many of these 'rioters' were kids and it seemed to be generally accepted that they needed both boundaries and opportunities.