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By Makhsudul Islam

Britain has lost its structure and formulation of being one of the most powerful countries in the world, with a high level of morality and transformed into a country of desperation – a true statement or a false accusation?

Having watched a recent show from the programme ‘Live At the Apollo’ on BBC, it has somewhat made people realise that maybe Al Murray does make an argument that maybe the leaders of the country should address. The feeling that a sense of shame needs to be brought back to the country and it has to be agreed that the man from Buckinghamshire makes a valid argument. The point is of great significance in the modern period especially as the young generation are portrayed as yobs and hoodlums in the public eye. The majority view is fairly disillusioned as we are only selectively picking out the depiction that is displayed to the population via the media. But the fact that the young are not to blame would be an understatement since the young have become so out of depth and touch from society that it is causing a country to endure abyss.

The first point of evidence is the level of crime that has increased within the country, gun crimes just within London as reported by the Metropolitan Police had increased by 4% and Glasgow is the murder capital of Europe, encompassing that of the US where arms bearing is completely legal. Every time the news is on the probability that there will be a story about violent crime that has taken place generally within the 16-25 categories seems to be readily increasing. Not once has anyone from government or the various institutions pointed fingers as to why such increase has occurred or why such youngsters behave the way that they do. It is very well that the Prime Minister to save his position points to the fact that many more cases are now recorded than previously had been but nevertheless the behavioural change is rather unclear and action needs to be taken to bring Britain back to its original status as a country of friendliness, compassion and morality.

A recent crime that took place where a young girl was abducted by a gang of females and had been beaten close to death, clearly a case of assault and battery. The lay person within the international hemisphere if asked about sentencing would probably say at least a year in prison if not more. But the justice seems to be losing touch with society; the gang was given two weeks community service of cleaning a canal. Where is the justice in that? Punishment is to deter crime, and punishment needs to be harsh for it to instil fear into the criminal, but if community service is supposed to act as a deterrent then the legal system is failing to protect those in need of its aid. How is it that the justice system could establish that the gang if given community service will be dissuaded from committing further crimes? The Paul Mercer case would show that these criminals have zero morality and only harsher sentences would bring these people back in line.

Secondly, how can Britain claim it is still a country of moral decency, when the MP’s, the figureheads of our country are nothing but plain pickpockets in the colloquial sense. With the loss of faith and trust that was placed in the governments hands it is human nature that when all faith and confidence is lost they resort to extreme measures and that extreme measure comes in the form of Nick Griffin, the leader of the BNP. Nick Griffin has already secured his place as an MEP and may well have a bearing on Acts legislated within Britain due to European Parliament being supreme authority. This is the by-product of the government’s misdemeanour with expenses but the question is: is this the symptom and indication that the UK electorates are diverting or accepting the BNP?

Nevertheless, change does gradually seem to be taking place within Britain with the Archbishop calling for part of Shariah law to be incorporated within the British legal system, in no way is it being suggested that this is the correct way forward but what it does certainly show is that the country is certainly realising its problems and constructing solutions. It is refreshing to see a religious figure promoting a separate religion that would predominate the law of the land.

A starting point for the government would be to provide the public justice for the misdemeanour with expenses. A.V. Dicey, the prominent Oxford Professor renowned for his writing on constitutional law states in his theory that starting from the Prime Minister down to the electorates everyone was to be judged according to the same law and no one should be immune from the ordinary courts of the land, the same would apply here. This is just a start to solving the problems; the government has to do much more to reconstruct those bridges that it had broken with the electorates and hopefully go on to show that the most important institution in the country is in the correct hands.