Teenage Thugs Kill Shopkeeper

For those of us who have seen low level violence bubbling up towards a real life Clockwork Orange, again we see it boiling into the public eye.

Cameron waffles on about Broken Britain, Labour denies anything is wrong, yet for those of us without a privileged background or ministerial salaries and perks insulating us from the world at large, it's something more than a political football, or bait for vote fishing.

Mr Singh was that most British of institutions, a shopkeeper, and going about running his business when a gang of kids felt they wanted his possessions and in taking them also took his life.

The talking heads can babble away, and we can hear any number of wet blankets talk about solutions that have more to do with textbook theory than reality, but as with our fearless leaders they live in ivory towers.

It's time we declared war. Our government is happy to wage battle on the danger of Islamic fundamentalists, yet feels no compulsion to offer a similar front on the wider and more entrenched danger of the feral creatures who have discarded their moral compasses for avarice and threat.

They need to be told that has to change. Yes, we can place long term solutions into effect, in order to stop future generations creating borderline animals predating on the general population, but that doesn't solve the current predicament.

We need to be unrelenting and harsh, as this is not a war we started, but it is one we must end, and end victorious, for all the other problems in society cannot be solved whilst this cancer eats away at it.

Will any political party stand up and be counted on this?