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[Sophia1]

1) Children under the age of 12 commit crime
2) Families live off scraps whilst supermarket, Bills and petrol prices rise.
3) Fraud rise 25% in the last 6 months
4) Immigrants over take the British traditions as Brown receives a bigger pay cheque.
5) Pensioners have no pensions
6) Benefits are no longer available for the British
7) NHS staff are on strike

Over the last few years negative accounts of young people in British society appear
to have snowballed. Reports on youth gun crime, gang culture, murder, declining family values, ruptured community ties and a lack of respect for authority combined with a general indifference to politics and a decline in the number of young people voting tend to depict young people in Britain as disinterested,disaffected and perhaps even ‘lost’.

On the other hand there is a general recognition that young people today have an unprecedented level of freedom and choice in deciding their own future given the demise of traditional structures of constraint such as class, gender, race, ethnicity and authority generally in addition to the emergence of the internet as a significant tool of self-empowerment.

Yet the endeavours of an older generation holding power – either political, parental, pedagogic or some other form of authority – appear to sit in tension with addressing this very different situation facing today’s young people. Perhaps in an attempt to redress Britain’s ‘lost’ youth, the current power holders seem driven by a need to impose structures of education, work and family. Indeed, whilst Tony Blair’s ‘education, education, education’ may be a thing of the past it has returned in less
rhetorical statements made by Gordon Brown in his speech to TUC in Brighton, where the emphasis is less on education and more on ‘training’, ‘skills’ and ‘qualifications’ to obtain ‘secure, well paid, high quality jobs’. These attempts to impose structures on young people are problematic not only because the temporal regulatory framework of school, qualifications then career are more disrupted and
open nowadays but also because there is a lack of recognition for the very real agency of young people in deciding their future owing to their increased levels of autonomy, freedom and choice.
Similarly much of the research in the area of youth and the future focuses on the ways in which young people need to be inspired, developed, engaged and guided.

As Haste (2006) explains; “Such lamentations [of Britain’s ‘lost’ youth] prod us to find a fix”. In an attempt to annex outdated structures of authority onto a very differently situated youth, there is an overwhelming sense that young people need to have their future mapped out and decided for them; often grounded in an assumption of ‘we
know best’. Furthermore, much of the research focuses only on young people’s personal ambitions rather than wider and more fundamental questions of young people’s perceptions of future society and their place in it.

[RichardB]

Terrible and did you know that they also drive around in Mercedes with fluffy dice

[Sophia1]

Lol he's gone back to Mummy dumped him last night..

[bill cobbett]

Luxury! I remember when we were kids ......

[Sophia1]

I don't think hoodies were around in your days, leg warmers maybe lol

[bill cobbett]

Terrible and did you know that they also drive around in Mercedes with fluffy dice

I don't know what's worse and what's on the increase, "furry dice" or the fear of "furry dice"

[Sophia1]

the fear of fury dice lol, I remember when he crashed his car and the recovery man asked him to remove his personal belongings all he took from the car was his fury dice lol lol lol

No seriously he was a compulsive liar..

[bill cobbett]

I don't think hoodies were around in your days, leg warmers maybe lol

Dumped him? Slowly and gently with female compassion or dumped him like a sack of potatoes over a high cliff?

Leg warmers? I was nearly into middle age when they came out. I'm of the "mini" and then "hot pant" generation. Not that I wore these myself I would stress.

[Sophia1]

My dad did hot pants that is, my mum and dad went to a fancy dress party last week and my mum went as wonder women and my dad went as superman lol lol

About my original message.. Its getting scary out there, I don't know if I should say you guys are so lucky to be in Cyprus but I did hear that its getting bad over there too but not as bad as uk I hope..

[webbo]

the fear of fury dice lol, I remember when he crashed his car and the recovery man asked him to remove his personal belongings all he took from the car was his fury dice lol lol lol

No seriously he was a compulsive liar..

You are kidding, right?!

B x