New slogans. New programs?
In the aftermath of riots in the UK, PM David Cameron has come up with some new slogans. It's as if he feels the need to campaign again for votes. However, the new slogans seem to represent new labels for the programs he touted during the last election.England riots: Broken society is top priority - Cameron
David Cameron has said tackling the "broken society" is back at the top of his agenda following last week's riots.
The PM said he would review government policies and speed up plans to deal with "problem" families, improve parenting and education.
As part of plans to tackle what he called a "moral collapse", he also pledged an "all-out war" on gangs…
In a speech in Oxfordshire, he said politicians had been unwilling to talk about rights and wrongs, but "moral neutrality" would not "cut it any more". He questioned whether politicians had "the determination to confront the slow-motion moral collapse that has taken place in parts of our country these past few generations".
He included children without fathers, schools without discipline and communities without control in a list of what he believed has gone wrong in parts of the country and said people were "crying out" for the government to act.
"The broken society is back at the top of my agenda," Mr Cameron said…
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Labels: civil society, politics, rule-of-law, UK
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