has become parties are bennett talked to british author jones about the problems in society that the unrest exposed. we've. i'm joined by owen jones author a book called chair of the demonization of the working classes thanks for talking to r.t. the demonization of the working classes what do you mean by that have to do with the riots i think there's been this myth which the political establishment and journalists alike embrace basically everybody in britain is middle class and all that remains of the old working class is a sort of problematic fact plus in the class what we saw with these riots complicate i think linked to the sense because it helps reinforce this are there this is the class which is waiting you know which is not only lazy in fact with but also violent which is how the government of lightning commentators have been

portraying it why is there this myth about the working classes how was it created and why the riots being blamed on them why i think what we saw in the 1980's in this country was an attack on a lot the pillars of working class britain industries that sustain a lot of communities institutions trade unions council housing values which in communities were very strong like solidarity in favor of good individuals and by the end of the eighty's there wasn't the same sense of being being able to be proud of being working class everyone supposed to seem to become middle class you know that part for aspiration means in britain so because of all that was that the working class became betrayed in a very negative way particularly as we became all equal and in a more equal society people justify that inequality by saying well actually the people at the bottom of that because they deserve to be there the lazy the violent bigoted stupid is a justification for inequality and that's not to say they want social problems in

this country like drugs and crime or whatever but the woman from. people narcs of work in some of the communities worst affected fact by the top of the thirty four employed people facing chasing every drop so i think problems what we saw last week another a whole range of other social problems i think unemployment and poverty provide fertile ground for them to grow so as not to justify it is just to try and explain why these things happen in order to stop it from happening again so using politicians have been quick to blame all of this on criminality and say that is a broken society. just a way of covering up the ills of a society they've created then absolutely i mean basically what they're trying to do is turn a social issue into a moral issue. they're reinforcing the idea that if your particular benefits are part of mass unemployment that your behavior is at fault when actually you know in

this country now there's a problem of lack of jobs we've got two and a half million people unemployed another million incapacity benefit the going was the push into work there's less than half a million vacancies there's not enough jobs to go around it's very convenient for the government to say actually all these people on unemployment benefits are is their own fault that behaviors that fall and that's what's need to be that's what needs to be sorted out not the issue addressed you know agree with some extent knowing these people were clearly have no idea that violence is not the answer i mean no one's justify what happened and understanding it's the whole are starting what has to be this must never happen again people must never be terrorized in their communities as they were last week with what in five people young people out of a job only takes a small proportion of those people who feel they have no future to risk to act in this way to bring chaos and violence to the streets of our cities and i mean

there's other issues too i think i think consumerism society has a lot of responsibility in britain your status has so much to do with what you possess. and what you wear. for a lot of all young people want to be part of a consumer society but there's a whole group of people particularly poor communities who feel they have no access to it and in a perverse way i think that's what you saw in places like hackney where you've got some of the poorest people living on some of the richest right in the center of london and i think that kind of inequality mixed with hyper consumerism helps create that situation that we saw in the shop you mentioned this inequality but the policy for some time has been some mix rich and poor living in the same areas bring in council houses to fill in areas and vice a versa do you not think that's work then i think the problem with vacation is you end up with lots of shops pricing out a lot of the people who live there actually pushes up the cost of living for the people but yes i think mixing and social mixing is good you only have to look at

paris where the rich are concentrated in the middle and the poor concentrate around the idea the so-called effect it's good to be mixing but the problem in london is one of the most cities in the western world the top ten percent are over two hundred sixty times richer than the bottom ten percent so then we see you have poor people living alongside some of the richest people in the world looking at live they will in all likelihood never help what we need to tackle inequality because at the moment people are getting a fair share of the british economy so how do you bridge saying well we need more progressive taxation we need actors on the rich in order to take more people at the bottom out of taxation altogether we need a living wage so people at the bottom especially a place like the most expensive cities on the planet the minimum wage in the country is just not enough to live on you can't support

a family with it so these are huge social problems which aren't being addressed and we have these problems at a time when people at the top are richer than ever is this also. case then of the bad example being set from the top down and had the m.p.'s expenses scandal bankers bonuses still getting paid despite the crisis if we look at the m.p.'s in particular he stood up to denounce these looters just three years ago they were embroiled in a huge expenses scandal let's be honest they were taking money from the taxpayer to get the same sort of widescreen t.v.'s that were being carted out of shops last week to be one example general counsel of backbench labor m.p. he stood up to demand action be taken against the looters he claimed eight and a half thousand pounds for buying all of the televisions that whilst one twenty three year old has just been sent to prison for six months. three hundred fifty worth of water to the right so yes we have the bankers who plunged into an economic crisis with the politicians he stole from the taxpayer we recently have the news

international scandal where police will be bribed by journalists what happened last week was more disorderly than all are but the example of being set by the top the way the government is dealing with this choosing it's a way for them to kind of legitimize right wing ideals of things like tougher policing cracking down on social media i think these riots have been manipulated by the government quite frankly people understandably angry and they're scared but what this government is doing is using that to justify attacks on people on benefits we've seen attacks on single parents this idea fatherless families are responsible we've seen recently david starkey the historian trying to scapegoat black people in black culture and we're now talking about in florida terry crackdown in terms of law and order attacks on civil liberties by government which promised the defense of liberty is against the attacks from new labor and even as you say a tax on the idea that social media should be closed down which didn't even happen

in a lot of authoritarian regimes when they were all poisons going about against them you mentioned david starkey that you're involved in the debate. he. mentioned the wants of the come blacks in other courses there has been talk of multiculturalism being the failure of it being the cause of these riots do you give any kind of credence to the argument that the about the racial issue coming into play in these riots let me be clear about david starkey what he said was a very racist this was an attempt to scapegoat people this of a whole range of people involved from different ethnic backgrounds the common factor with all of them is poverty and unemployment and again it's not just of what happened was completely inexcusable if you have enough people who don't feel they have a future of whatever ethnic background only takes a small proportion to respond in this outrageous way to being cut off the streets of london but multiculturalism and different ethnic groups have nothing to do with what happened we still haven't seen the full effects of the austerity cuts things

like higher education police cuts still plan to be going through when it does these things things will get worse i think the danger is that these riots a dark force of much worth. there's a perfect storm the rich haven't yet there's rising youth unemployment the government took away the educational maintenance allowance which was paid to pour over six in your office then education university tuition fees have been troubled all of these together will breed continue to breed but more devastatingly increasing numbers of people who feel they have no future they feel they have nothing to look forward to and i think we could see a lot worse down the line when the courts the government's response many of. the same time seems to be mirroring public opinion the public want the government to crack down on the perpetrators and they want them to be punished severely nothing else a good idea look people angry people are scared because of what happened but this

should be a test of democracy in a country like they're. all very good. an inevitable backlash that should not let people allow justice to be subverted this country they couldn't and i'm talking of taking away benefits council houses from those who were involved in the riots now what that says is you will be punished twice for pig committing crimes if you will paul because obviously that will not affect anyone it doesn't a council and isn't on benefits now i think we need to be just don't be proportionate to the crime and the idea of attacking poor people more than the poor for punishing them twice is fundamentally unjust and also self-defeating because if you take away all forms of income and also means of housing from people then what reason is there not to be involved in criminality i mean in effect because i knew means of survival so i think this is near hysteria gripping the magistrates in this

country and we need to visit stop i mean jones thank you.

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headlines depleted numbers make a moderate sits out totnes trip to old trafford while the knights of missing three key defenders in a crunch game in english premier league. while a matter of time chelsea's thirty four million dollar target. turns out to undergo a medical meeting a move from balad. tiny feet of the beach elaine yankovic's cincinnati the second title of the season weeks before the start of the usa and. its people for football in the english premier league has missed taught them strip to manchester united this monday evening after manager harry redknapp said the want to a midfield his mind is not in the right place the absence could be seen as moderates taking a step towards a move to chelsea despite all the efforts by spurs to keep the twenty five year old croatia star they do have debutant brad friedel in goal the last one is old trafford almost twenty two years ago and are looking for their first points of the

season after last week's i think game time to everton was postponed because of the riots in london while a win for united would propel them into a joint top spot as bridles managed to. city and wolves but united are missing the injured defensive trio of rio ferdinand emmanuel did it and rafael. well city are leading the league following a three two the trip bolton gareth barry and injector were on target for the visitors while wolves who escaped relegation last night until it's time to follow him to join city as the only side to take maximum points from both reckoning games and start grant a last gasp draw as ted now norrish with both sides still looking for that this wins of the season. and in the meantime more pressure has been heaped on arsenal manager arsene wenger after picking up just one point from two games since the start of the domestic season the gunners will now have to do without venga for the next two european games the coach was suspended for two further you wait for fixtures down for breaching the previous touchline boundary last tuesday's one

there when it came to a dinner easy in the first leg of the champions league qualifying playoffs the second leg will be held in italy on wednesday well meanwhile manchester city manager out of out of mind cheney says he wants to complete the signing of austin wood for the samir nasri before that second leg on wednesday if the deal doesn't go through by then the twenty four year old from star could feature in the time refused it is silly which means he'll be ineligible to play for city later in the competition and he says it's vital the midfielder is free to play in full city's games. and chelsea say they've agreed a transfer fee would balance their full midfielder just thought to be around thirty four million dollars the move is subject to the twenty three year old agreeing personal terms are so magical matter who has won eleven caps so far for spain's forty four goals as part of his country's world cup winning squad last year. while chelsea midfielder john obi mikel should be a happy man off to his father was found on marriage era michael obi was abducted

ten days ago in his native country local police have now detained those suspected of the kidnapping. and elsewhere to. aimed at ending the players' strike which has disrupted the start of the spanish league season for the first time in almost thirty years of ended with no agreement reached the spanish footballers association had said players from the top two divisions would go on strike for the first two rounds of the new season unless an agreement with the spanish league was reached over the issue of unpaid wages the players want to guaranteed funds to protect their wages in the event of their clubs going bankrupt in time fifty million euros remain unpaid to more than two hundred players while the season moves to little reconvene on tuesday. while elsewhere footballers officials and fans have to roll with the coverage so much in mexico after a gunfight broke out of the stadium on sunday gunmen opened fire on police and stray bullets hit the exterior of the venue in the northern city of gori on no casualties fifty reported an estimated twenty thousand spectators watched that top

to be a match between samples laguna and the like as motherly or it was abandoned in the fortieth minute no goals had been schooled the other fixtures across the country went on a shirt. that switched to tennis now where maria sharapova has climbed three places to number four in the world rankings following a hard fought win of elaine yankovic's in the final of the cincinnati open the russians threw away four lead in the first sets to lose that six ball but tells her to take the back and forth second set on a tie break before blitzing the decider at six three the wind secured sure activists second title of the year after winning in rome on the twenty fifth at the polls as a career it was also the perfect preparation for the u.s. open which starts in a week's time. while on the men's side and even henri was over the moon after beating man of the moment novak djokovic though that time after the red hot serbian retired to a right shoulder to set the love down however of each retained his top ranking and

was hoping to get his shoulder right in time for what could be his third grand slam crowd of the season at flushing meadows the. defeat was only the second of a so far sizzling season for djokovic who has won fifty three matches so far. have expected played so many matches this year after winning winning. you know a lot. and reaching the final stages of each event that i've participated on and. you know they do considering the schedule there is very busy in term is it's kind of normal to expect that at some stage you are exhausted but. as i said you know i am confident that i can recover and be ready for you so. now let's move on to some spectacular shots from the latest round of the cliff diving world series britain as gary hart won in boston to claim the overall title. to the

runners up spot well as there are no short clips in boston a board was attached to the contemporary arts building which is eighty meters above the waterfront hunt had the chance to successfully defend his world series title as victory at the u.s. venue would ensure you won't see them become the world champion and no one could match a spectacular dive in one and a half twisting quadruple somersault so it was a fourth picture of the season for hundreds russians still trying to finish one rock for the fourth time and he's also set to finish second in the season's i were all standings however he does have one last chance of winning a stage at the final dive of the ukraine it's a week's time. i mean it's amazing. really on the scribe will figure into. this series under my belt with one one competition to go from believer the whole of course i'm so. for him this season in this year i think second place

i have lots chance in the ukraine for this year in this competition. finally back to full and criticise tough sanctions if the russian premier league finds them guilty of allegedly harnessing the referee in sunday's two one high when i was in a moscow but aside from that's let's recap on those three goals and the rest from the weekend's action scholes go. live. live. leak. live. live.

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breaking news this hour on our t.v. rebels claim to control the libyan capital. back to. two of the sons of being captured by the opposition but one has reportedly escaped with the help of. independent journalists at the rixos hotel in tripoli they feel under siege and in danger from what's happening outside. opposition supporters rejoice in a forty year old regime is nearing a dead end and skeptics point to the protests the solution that followed the for egypt's to. rush to hold talks with officials from libya's new government since the transitional council named several nato nations as favorites for oil contracts.