http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...ester-14478498
Quote:
Rioters in Manchester and Salford have been told that they face being evicted from their council homes if they are identified on CCTV footage.
Both city councils have issued warnings that if any of their tenants or their children have been involved in violence or looting they will be "thrown out".
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Oh, well that'll help the situation no end, making a bunch of families homeless. Can't see how that could possibly backfire and cause greater social unrest and public expense.
This sort of thing really pisses me off. Because, see, here's the deal: local councils have legal obligations when it comes to little things like ensuring children are not homeless or in other dangerous situations. All the councils are doing by following this line is to shunt these families out of the stable (however deprived) setting of a council house and into the unstable setting of hostels, guest houses and other comparatively expensive forms of temporary accomodation.
If these kids are already disconnected from society, then throwing them and their families out to try and survive on family's floors, and shared lodgings, disrupting whatever structures do exist within their homelife and probably interrupting their education, possibly necessitating a change of school due to moving to a new area, is not going to help anybody. It's just Look Tough nonsense. 'Common sense responses' that are anything but.