Article - Owen Jones : Why 'chavs' were the riots' scapegoat.- The Independent.

Key points from article :

• Twitter described the rest as a 'Chav spring' , ' Chav Fighting' ,' Chav infestation', and ' mindless criminality.
• David Cameron made a point -'Children without fathers.' and point then repeated by the right wing.
• Charles Murray , who claimed that rising illegitimacy amount the ' lower classes' had produced a ' new rabble.' 
• Richard Littlejohn - Daily Mail ' Wolfpack of feral inner-city waifs and strays.' 
• Taxs payers money went into paying for the damage and MPs according to owens really milked this impact on the expense system. 
• However he argues that when Gerland Kaufman MP 'was found to have claimed £8,750 of public money for a Bang & Olufsen TV set.' He was just asked to pay the money back. 
• Men featured prominently among the rioters. Nine out of ten of the rioters apprehended where men. 
• Jones blames the government for this and states that if there were not a lack of jobs and apprenterships then he dose present the thought that the riots may potentially not have occurred. 
• ' Of course, many of the rioters got involved because they saw an opportunity to steal with impunity. For others , it was a vicarious thrill;... show off..... Caught up in the crowd, sensing that accepted social norms had temporarily been suspended. 
• David Starkey - historian- quotes Enoch Powells rivers of blood speech.
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