[Margaret Pilkington]

I don't think you can 'bolt on' respect. Tony Blair is just mouthing off about a problem which we all face.....but which society as a whole has created.
It was created by people who thought that they could 'have it all.....without any strings'

I have said in other posts many times that everyone knows their rights.... but no-one wants to take responsibility for the things they do in life. Every action we take has consequences.......and I think that society has led people to believe that consequence relate to other people and not to them.

Increasingly the state tries to take control of what we do and is now trying to tell us what we should think (PC brigade?).......now Teflon Tony is spouting off about how parents should be controlling their children....and if they aren't controlling them to his/schools liking then he will MAKE them have parenting lessons.....how long will it be before children are removed from parents who are deemed to be making a bad job of parenting? I find the latest moves by the government very Orwellian.....or am I just being cynical or perhaps paranoid?