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Featherstone on the riots

August 26, 2011 10:53 AM

Lynne Featherstone MP• [Aug 22] Lynne Featherstone* writes: AM I bovvered? That was the gag line from Catherine Tate - and we all laughed. But there was nothing funny about the real life representation of lots of young people who were not bothered at all . .

We should also learn from the few bright spots, the displays of strong community spirit to protect property and clean-up communities - a display which I, as a London MP for a highly diverse community, am particularly pleased to have seen was fully multicultural, involving all different parts of our society. We saw great dignity from the father of one of the three young men mowed down by a car. We saw community spirit rise from the ashes and give us all heart. And we probably managed to arrest more of our criminal fraternity in London on a single night than ever before . .

So as the evidence comes in I expect we will be faced with two main challenges: that of how to make our policing and legal system work better and that of how to help give people in some of our poorest communities a different sense of hope and self-worth than that which comes from criminal or threatening behaviour.

Am I bovvered? Yes - very!

* MP for Hornsey and Wood Green and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Equalities Office, Home Office

• Lynne Featherstone's Blog [Aug 22]

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