IT was insensitive, of course, for Jonathan Ross to link the stupidity of some of some of today’s parents with their council estate backgrounds and to joke that they shouldn’t be allowed to have kids.
It was not nice of Ross – reportedly paid £18 million over three years by the Beeb for his "skills" in lightweight chit-chat – to make such remarks in his banter with chef Jamie Oliver on BBC1 on Friday 29 September.
But it wasn’t necessarily untrue in a generalised sort of way … and he might have done us all a favour by opening up an important debate.
For as I’ve pointed out previously, with each year that passes another generation of hopelessly ill-prepared school-leavers comes on stream and the British population becomes ever thicker, collectively speaking.
Many of today’s young adults are staggeringly dumb. They are also lacking in moral training, having passed through our abysmal, failing, politically correct and creepy state schooling system.
I take no pleasure in saying all of this, but it’s true. Anyone aged over 45 will be dismayed by the lack of manners, the coarseness of speech and the sheer stupidity of many, though not all, young people.
And because traditional training on sexual morality (i.e. that you don’t have full sexual relations unless you are married) is no longer followed, even as an ideal, many of the new underclass will quickly produce children.
We all know that many young women want to “'ave a baybee” as soon as possible and to raise the child as single mums so they can get a council flat and live on state benefits. Irresponsible young men go along with this.
Again, let me stress I take no pleasure in saying this stuff. I wish earnestly that our country was better educated. We would all enjoy a better quality of life if it was.
I grew up in a working class family living on a council estate in Wigan in the 1960s and for part of the 1970s.
But things were different then. In my experience, working class folk had honour, intelligence and their own brand of morality, inspired by trade union solidarity, Christianity and neighbourliness. How things have declined over the past 40 years or so.
Jonathan Ross larkily suggested to Jamie Oliver that we should “put something in the water” to stop council estate types from having children.
That’s outrageous and fascist, of course, though the way things are going with civil liberties, crime and environmental pressure, it might come to that.
Who can tell what Draconian rules we shall be forced to live under 20 years from now when the world will look very different?
Right now, it is not all doom,however. Some young men and women are good, bright and articulate. They will make excellent parents.
But dumb young people probably form the majority. If you are unconvinced, look for tell-tale signs…
Parents who get the ears of their very young children pierced, for instance, are among the stupidest. Can’t they see how wrong that is?
And what about the young men who drive around with purple and /or green lighting under their Ford Fiestas and keep their fog lamps switched on during clear nights?
You see that a lot in New Brighton with boy racers tearing up and down the Promenade. To me, they are showing distinct signs of stupidity.
Jonathan Ross was using a convenient label for poverty and poor education when he made his bitchy council estate remark.
It doesn’t matter where you live or how materially poor you are.
It is what’s in your head and your heart that matters.
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Alberre wrote...
It was insensitive of Jonathan Ross (he’s a t***t anyway) to link stupidity of parents to their council estate background. Stupid? Perhaps not, as it is stereotypically true. Just look at the Vicky Pollard- types and the knuckle- dragging lowlifes wondering round these council estates. It is wrong however to blame council estates. No council estate ever did any wrong. It is the social deprivation of society to blame, and and the councils for filling these areas with druggies and other undesirables. That is what gives council estates their bad name.
Go back to the not so distant past, and it was people from council estates that provided the backbone of the country. It was the people from council estates who won two world wars, then helped to rebuild this country and today are dying in Iraq.
Cannot hear Jonathan f*****g Woss shouting his mouth off now can you? Also the higher one's social standing in life, that does not guarantee intelligence. As I know some posh people who are as thick as pig s**** . Oh look, there goes my working class council estate big gob again.
You and I are both from a council estate, and I’m proud of the fact. It has done me no harm what so ever, it has made me what I am today.
We are just a couple of “WORKING CLASS HEROES”.
New Brighton Massive (Middle East Branch)
*** Hey, Alberre "we can be heroes ..." SR.
Posted by: Alberre | October 9, 2006 4:12 PM