What the F**k is going on?

[TonkaToy]

"I'm sat here, looking at the news and we have a young girl stabbed on her way to school... A campus shooting in Rotterdam, a Twat felling a national icon in the North East... What is the common denominator? The perpetrators are all young. How have we got to a point where the one that has pissed me off the most is a fuckwit cutting down a tree!"

[threesixty]

"I don’t think it’s the kids anymore. I think it’s the people in their 30s/40s+ that brought them up and actually created the current society that’s the problem. The kids had no say in this shit. It’s easy for adults to have perspective because we grew up in a different world. But the kids are fucked as this is all they know. And we “gave” them this program. We invented Tik tok, instagram etc. we voted for govts that have removed so much shit that would help. I feel like we’ve said “we can handle xyz” and forgot that the children can’t. And it’s fucked them permanently. There are some absolutely insane monsters out there now and I don’t think there is any rehabilitation to get them back to normal sadly. Feels like a write off."

[Mike Oxsaw]

"I'd agree that bad parenting is the core cause of all this - and not just the more ""obvious"" reason - absent fathers. Far too many people - including professional, educated and, dare I say it, very white people, are expecting to live their lives, continue their previous career paths and social activities after becoming parents as they were before; it's as if they regard their own children as some sort of fashion accessory or badge of honour, rather than kids who will grow up and become adults themselves (rather quickly). OK - I agree that it's difficult to even get by these days with a single breadwinner, but it's been difficult since at least the 1970s, so that should be a surprise to absolutely no one. People need to realise and accept that being a parent is not simply ""one of life's events"", to be fitted into a busy social, academic and professional calender - it's preparing their offspring to be better citizens than they ever were. That needs, at least, maximum two-on-one interaction: two parents, one sprog."

[RM10]

And 15 years of conservatives

[RM10]

"Makes me laugh when someone mentions youth clubs, we ain’t in the 70s! This is all about parenting, third world culture and lack of authority."

[Dwight Van Mann]

Marvin Gaye missed a trick with the lyrics didn't he?

[Mike Oxsaw]

"Apparently, the internationally renown Cripplefucker tree in Cambodia has suffered the same fate recently. The age profile matches, so, perhaps, someone is attempting to destroy (DNA) evidence of earlier ""one-of-the-lads"" misdemeanours?"

[gph]

I see the Sycamore Gap suspect is 63. What the fuck is wrong with you young people?

[Darlo Debs]

Aldgate precisely.

[aldgate]

a bunch of roses and a zombie knife is a bizarre mix of items to take out on a weekday morning sounds like the killer was known to have some issues let's hope the one good thing that might come out of this is that in the world of proper equality a wrong un is a wrong un irrespective of what they look like and we should protect the good people rather than being scared of offending scrotes

[Mickey Rat]

"I don't suppose making 20,000 experienced police and loads of youth club leader redundant have helped much either"

[Leavemyarcelona]

Zeb That Ricardo fella was driving recklessly. Then failed to be a good citizen

[Leavemyarcelona]

"I remember two weeks ago a thief tried to steal a wig and was restrained and kicked out. There was a mass protest. Thank god a beautiful young girl on the way to school was not stabbed otherwise there would be more mass protests and probably riots, demanding the mayor of London to invest money into the police instead of woke ideologies. Oh wait........"

[Leavemyarcelona]

You got evidence zeb? They don't have to watch don't forget they have phones.

[zebthecat]

If you think young people watch BBC news or Sky news you are totally delusional.

[Alex G]

Sixty year old arrested in connection with felling the tree at Sycamore gap. Any theories that he was doing it for tiktok hits like some have been suggesting the previously arrested sixteen year old was?

[arsene york-hunt]

"Perhaps media like BBC and Sky constantly talking about racism, colonialism, slavery etc. has instilled in the youth a culture of blaming everybody for their own failure in life. Absent parents and lack of discipline, and the likes of Dawn Butler looking for every opportunity to undermine the police, gives these kids a mindset that they are always victims."

[Gary Strodders shank]

"Too many errant father's and kids with no positive role models in there lives. Peer pressure, music glamourising violence and a particular way of life. Total inaction by old bill partly due to political correctness partly due to being totally inadequate at detecting and preventing crime particularly county lines and knife crime. Social media slurs also play a part in a lot of attacks and fuel postcode wars Having said all that there has always been bad shit happenlng all though nothing like it is today. I was stabbed in the stomach with a screwdriver by a mate (now dead ) i had fallen out with when I was 13. A couple of years later a school friend got fatally stabbed by a disabled kid he had been bullying. Flick & Stanley knives were the weapon of choice in my day but very rarely used now it's zombie knives and machetes. I"

[Gary Strodders shank]

"Too many errant father's and kids with no positive role models in there lives. Peer pressure, music glamourising violence and a particular way of life. Total inaction by old bill partly due to political correctness partly due to being totally inadequate at detecting and preventing crime particularly county lines and knife crime. Social media slurs also play a part in a lot of attacks and fuel postcode wars Having said all that there has always been bad shit happenlng all though nothing like it is today. I was stabbed in the stomach with a screwdriver by a mate (now dead ) i had fallen out with when I was 13. A couple of years later a school friend got fatally stabbed by a disabled kid he had been bullying. Flick & Stanley knives were the weapon of choice in my day but very rarely used now it's zombie knives and machetes. I"

[zebthecat]

Far Cough 9:54 Fri Sep 29 Not really a mystery as three have been arrested for arson and two others (although the names have not been released we know who) have been arrested for conspiracy to commit arson.

[WHU(Exeter)]

"he probably thought it was ok, what with councils doing the same, albeit they go about their business at night and tend to go for volume of old tress, rather than specific historical landmark ones."

[Far Cough]

I thought it was Elm I 5?

[stewey]

The 16yo who chopped the tree down has been arrested by SPECIAL BRANCH.

[Eerie Descent]

"Manuel 10:24 Fri Sep 29 Of course it's not going to change, look at what some people are posting. Police are not allowed to work on potentially preventing crime, they could lose their jobs and have their lives ruined over that, why would you bother? Better to concentrate on what Dave from Dudley has posted on Twitter, he's an easy nicking and it'll look great on the CV."

[Manuel]

"Cat - Yep, of course, totally agree."

[violator]

Apparently the young girl who was murdered only started getting the bus because of the ULEZ expansion.