What angers me is most of these people using the riots as a form or pollitical demonstration are talking utter rubbish. They speak about no prospects, yet don't know how lucky they are!
I've recently recovered enough to start occasionally venturing out, but spent the greater part of two years housebound due to massive back problems. In that time I've had to fight tooth and nail to keep a roof over my head, and to survive on what essentially is barely enough for someone to feed and cloth themselves. I live alone, I have a house to pay for and run, and I spend all my time being treated like some form of scum by the Social departments of our government. They won't let me work, they won't let me do voluntary work.
I'm not allowed to look for work, and I get absolutely no help in finding it. I'm scorned upon by employers in either case because I'm disabled to a degree, yet not actually severely disabled enough in the Governments eye's to be registered disabled. Therefore the Disabilities Act and a fair right to employment don't apply to me. It is illegal to withhold information requested by employers, so the first thing they ask is for you to fill out their application; it's guaranteed there is a section titled "existing medical conditions". If asked, I have to tell them. So what happens... Well plenty more are applying so for whatever reason I never hear back from anyone.
I live every day not knowing if I'll be paid money by the government (had it stopped three times this year due to errors on their part already) and I'm seen twice yearly by GP's that are about as helpful as dead ferrets.
My long term prospects are slim at best, and having been out of work for the last 2 years makes the situation far worse to employers. Socially, being housebound for so long has taken its toll as well, and I now struggle to remain in crowded situations and am very nervous and anxious around people. Mentally I have suffered as much as I have physically, and my back is never going to improve, it will just get worse now.
I don't want sympathy, or a hand out for the rest of life. I want to work and earn my own money, just like everyone else does. Our benefits system needs a massive reform in all honesty, but rioting and looting the businesses and area's that could employ them in the future is certainly not helping their situation.
Yet I'm not stealing flatscreen TVs, or using it as an excuse to go looting!
These kids have absolutely no sodding excuse what-so-ever, and I hope every last one is caught and given serious consequences... But knowing this stupid country the second the government are in the clear due to another scandal it will all be forgotten, and they'll get away with it unpunished.
There is a way you go about doing things, and the youths of today could learn a great deal from there peers, who achieve what they feel are the right changes by voting and using peaceful protests against our government.
God only knows how my pension and living will be paid by the generation of today.
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