Nov 5, 2009 No Respect, No Morals, No Trust, Welcome to Modern Britain

The London Telegraph had an article by Jeff Randall which showed how far the British people have fallen in the last 60 years.  The article cited a BBC broadcast which showed the social decomposition by showing a Sheffield student relieving himself on a war memorial while BBC had news bulletins that covered the murder of five British soldiers in Helmand.  It's hard to think of a more offensive image than booze-fuelled urine flowing over poppies, on a day when courageous servicemen are being slaughtered in order, the Government claims, to keep the rest of us safe.  

Randall cited the corrosion of deference in our schools, the abandonment of manners on our streets and the death of respect for civility and integrity. He said that the British are close to the point where ethical behaviour is regarded as an affliction to be pitied, a loser's burden.

In a summary of what went wrong, Britain's “Chief Rabbi,” Lord Sacks, concludes: "Concepts like duty, obligation, responsibility and honour have come to seem antiquated and irrelevant. Emotions like guilt, shame, contrition and remorse have been deleted from our vocabulary, for are we not all entitled to self-esteem? The still, small voice of conscience is rarely heard these days. Conscience has been outsourced, delegated away."

Randall noted:  “As the banking crisis and MPs' expenses scandal revealed, there is barely a distinction between legality and morality. Freedom means pursuing that with which it is possible to get away. If everyone else is gaming the system, only a mug would choose to do otherwise. When caught, the perpetrators point shamelessly to a failure by regulators.”

He added that after becoming prime minister, “Tony Blair offered a fresh start for a modernised Britain. It was an attractive vision. He did not want, he said, his children brought up in a country where gangs of teenagers hung around street corners, doing nothing but abusing passers-by. ‘I tell you: a decent society is not based on rights,’ he said. ‘It is based on duty… the duty to show respect.’

“No quibbles there, except that after 12 years of his New Labour project, the respect to which Mr Blair referred is in the sewer. Teachers who seek to reprimand offensive pupils are attacked by yobbish parents; train drivers who ask unruly gangs to get off are beaten up. A vulnerable mother kills herself and her disabled daughter after years of brutal abuse from thugs. This, I'm afraid, is the reality of contemporary Britain, a sprawling no-respect zone.  

“According to a study by the Institute for Public Policy Research, Britain's teenagers are among the most badly behaved in Europe.  It paints a picture of adolescents immersed in consumerism, who are drunk more often and involved in more fights than their Continental counterparts.  The IPPR's explanation for our dismal record is a collapse in family and community life. In Italy, 93 per cent of 15-year-olds eat regularly with their parents; in Britain, it is just 64 per cent.  We should not be surprised.  The British state rewards unmarried mothers with a level of benefits most would be unable to earn in legal employment.  They are incentivised to go solo.”

Randall added the immigration fall—out by saying “When Labour forced through its disastrous policy of mass immigration, what respect did it show to the millions of indigenous working-class voters whose communities would come under serious strain as a result? Did anyone explain the true consequences, rather than just the bogus benefits?

““And when David Cameron gave us a cast-iron guarantee that we would be able to vote on the ratification of a European Constitution (for that is what the Lisbon Treaty is) did he consider how disrespectful it would be to renege? Apparently not. Up his sleeve was the metaphorical small print.

“As bleak as it seems, Lord Sacks's prognosis is unavoidable: ‘Parliamentary reform and financial re-regulation will treat the symptoms, not the cause. Without conscience there can be no trust. Without a shared moral code there can be no free society. Either we recover the moral sense or we will find, too late, that in the name of liberty, we have lost our freedom.’”

Comment:  Just like sickness and despair is throughout Britain, the same is true in the US.  There is no mistake about it.  Judgment from The HIGHEST is on the way.  

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