Let's pretend this has nothing to do with the U.K being one of the most unequal societies in the world in terms of income.
On paper perhaps, but is is far from one of the most unequal societies in the world in reality.
Have you been to places like Thailand recently ? Where huge numbers of people live in shanty towns made of plywood on the end of a stinking sewer water infested klong, or under the pillars of the overpasses, while the visible and numerous elite play eenie meenie miny mo with their fleet of luxury cars and their hot and cold running servants.
How about a quick easyjet flight to Italy, where there is no welfare state as you know it in the Uk and when you lose your job you might, if exceedingly lucky, get some small kind of gov. support for a single year, if you were one of the lucky few who had a permenent contract, but that is about it, and it is not in any way comparable to the benefits you'd get in the UK.
Kids live at home with their parents until their mid to late 20s, because it takes that long to get a paid job with a salary you can live on, rather than an internship. Yet the politicians, even the far left ones, enjoy their summers on a yacht and set their kids up with "do little, get paid lots" jobs for life". Where the whole system is based on not what you know, but who you know, so a huge swaths of the young are out of the loop from the word go.
I'd rather be unemployed and disenfranchised in the UK than anywhere else in the world.
And I'm glad that support system exists because I got hit hard by Maggie's recession as teenager and have never forgotten being cold, hungry and frequently homeless.
But please do not bleat about Britain being on of the most unequal societies in the world, you can make anything look like anything on paper, but if you actually go have a look at the world you are unlikely to want to be at the bottom end of the playing field in the vast majority of other places on the planet.
This is about something rather than nothing, but the genie is out of the bottle and there is no putting it back in.
This is about unrealistic expectations. This is about a sense of entitlement. This is about a wholesale lack of disciple and principles being instilled in a propotion of a generation.
And the tragedy is that the people at the wrong end of the playing field who are guilty of none of the above, who have already been the most adversely affected by the arson and looting and the terrorizing, are the primary fall guys now in the fireing line. Because if you don't think this won't cause a Daily Mail flavoured backlash as long as you try to dress it up as something it isn't, you too are guilty of unrealistic expectations.
With your help in linking the people who need and deserve the most help with this mob, the phenomenon can very easily be re-framed as the straw that broke the camels back and the truly in need will see a slash and burn campaign towards benefits and services as enough of the electorate decides that since it achieves nothing but trouble, might as well save the cash that provides the safety net and put it towards rebuilding and more police instead.