UK youths 'among worst in Europe'

They needed to commission a study to find this out???!!! I could've told them for bugger all!!!

The part that i find the funniest is that we've commissioned the study, we've confirmed our worst fears, what are we going to do about it? Bugger all is the answer! I think the main problem is that our current government doesn't have the kind of powers to stop the rot in this country.

I love the term "Ned", it's a Scottish term that was around to describe these individuals long before the word "Chav" came into pop culture. If you need a run down of what a ned is have a look in good old wikipedia.

Now the problem that the government currently faces is that neds make up a very large proportion of the population (in fact a study into just how big a proportion would be an idea!) so the problem is that they either have to:

i) Turn neds away from ned behaviour.
ii) Reduce the number of neds in the country.

Now these are two very different approaches to the problem. The first is a utopian solution that is simply impossible, yet it seems to be the favoured solution of the government. I think we'd have more of a chance of convincing lions of the benefits of vegetarianism than getting this bunch to change their ways. Without getting right into the age-old "nature vs. nurture debate" I do believe that if a Nedism is probably 90% nurture and 10% nature.

The second solution is the practical way to approach the problem. Now, I'm not suggesting that we all grab a gun, jump on a horse and start rounding up neds. What i am saying is that you need a license to have a gun, own a dog, sell drink, drive a car, to travel to other countries. But, any f**cker can have kids? It just doesn't make sense.

I remember being a kid and listening in School as the teachers spoke in disgust of how you required a license in China if you wanted to have a kid. Is this such an outlandish backward idea? I think the main argument against this has always been that it's a violation of our human rights to have children will nilly. Obviously I think that human rights are important, but surely we're letting the lunatics take over the asylum here! I don't see how showing a greater responsibility for the people that we bring into world is somehow infringing on human rights?

I'm sure there will be some who will compare this view to some Nazi vision of a master race but it's just actually common sense. If you're not fit enough to be a parent, then why should you be allowed to be a parent?

One case I've previously read involved a kid who didn't know his father and his mother was a drug addict. He was raised in a series of children's homes and eventually when he was seventeen he went out and stabbed another kid, a student who was just minding his own business. The parents of the child who died have never recovered and the kid who stabbed him was sent down for murder and sent to a psychiatric ward for ten years.

I'm not going to go into great detail on the rehabilitation subject as I'll no doubt tackle it at some other point. What I will categorically say right now is that although society does have a responsibility to all parties concerned, a responsible society would have prevented the situation from arising in the first place. The most practical way of doing this would have been to not allow the junkie and the man with no name to bring a kid into the world and if they did they should have never have been allowed to raise him.

It sounds harsh, it sounds radical but it's a new way and I think it's just plain common sense...

If we did adopt this approach, i'm pretty sure that we could start doing something about binge drinking, anti social behaviour and other such problems. Don't blame the kids, blame the parents.