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| By Alan Stanton - Firefighters - High Road Tottenham |
In the face of public fear, anger and retribution, the left faces an uphill struggle to articulate the way forward from the unrest in our cities. The demonising of young people in general has led to a fear of groups of them at the best of times, let alone when things get out of control. The fact that many of those involved appear not to have been so young barely gets a mention.
It is hard to get a hearing for the causes of what is happening when people are so caught up in the symptoms. It is even harder when anger is fuelled by the political right in a populist diversion of attention from the policies that led so predictably to some kind of explosion.
