Quote of the day:
In too many places, in too many communities, we have a Jeremy Kyle generation of young men reaching adult life ill-equipped for it, lacking the right social skills, lacking a sense of purpose and responsibility, lacking self-confidence, lacking the ability to seize on an opportunity and make the most of it.
For too many of them, this is the beginnings of a permanent lifestyle. On the margins of society, living hand to mouth on welfare, drifting from despair to irresponsibility, from taking dings to peddling drugs, from aimless idleness to active criminality...
Our young boys are too often drawing lessons about life from footballers and celebrities who behave in monstrously inappropriate ways.
Many footballers who are earning more in a week than many families will see in a year get themselves arrested, pick fights, take drugs and set a rotten example. Their selfish antics are then replicated by young people...
We need to promote positive, socially responsible male role models and we need practical measures to combat family breakdown, worklessness and poor educational opportunity.
- Chris Grayling, Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary
Yes. That. The problem is, there is bugger all any government can directly do about it. Only society can cure it's own ills, not governemnt. It can only prevent the right climate. And hope.For too many of them, this is the beginnings of a permanent lifestyle. On the margins of society, living hand to mouth on welfare, drifting from despair to irresponsibility, from taking dings to peddling drugs, from aimless idleness to active criminality...
Our young boys are too often drawing lessons about life from footballers and celebrities who behave in monstrously inappropriate ways.
Many footballers who are earning more in a week than many families will see in a year get themselves arrested, pick fights, take drugs and set a rotten example. Their selfish antics are then replicated by young people...
We need to promote positive, socially responsible male role models and we need practical measures to combat family breakdown, worklessness and poor educational opportunity.
- Chris Grayling, Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary
