Simple numbers have provided the main reason for youth protest dropping out of fashion for the best part of twenty years. The low birth rates of the 1970s meant that the young were too heavily outnumbered by their elders. But with the millennium baby boom in full swing we can expect to see them back on the streets causing real trouble within the next decade.
Control methods will be sorely needed if students join forces with their less privileged brethren, the NEEPS (forced to do unpaid work if they cannot find proper jobs) in protest at government policies.
They can be set to the proven therapeutic task of chopping up wood.
It would be a fine Coalition Policy. David Cameron wants to forget his days in the Bullingdon Club (Motto: I like the sound of breaking glass) & could join with Nick Clegg who must surely revere William Gladstone & all his works, including the axing of trees.
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