"Maybe time someone addressed the real reason this type riot"

The warnings have been there for those who wished to see them. Here are a few pertinent passages from Tony Judt's 'Ill Fares the Land', written just before his death in 2010:


"More than anything else, the welfare states of the mid-20th century established the profound indecency of defining civic status as a function of economic good-fortune."

"...our present approach to welfare provision encourages the view that those who cannot secure regular work are in some measure responsible for their own misfortune. The more such people we have in our midst, the greater the risks to civic and political stability."

"It is one thing to dwell amongst inequality and its pathologies; it is quite another to revel in them."

"There is quite a lot of evidence that people trust other people more if they have a lot in common with them...The more equal a society, the greater the trust."

"In an age when young people are encouraged to maximise self-interest and self-advancement, the grounds for altruism or even good behaviour become obscured."

"We live in an age of fear....fear that it is not just we who can no longer shape aour lives but that those in authority have also lost control, to forces beyond their reach."

Prophetic words!