However, it isn't only Conservative MPs who are the subject of Jefferson's political dissatisfactions. After four years as a Labour councillor, sitting on the education, police, social services and public protection committees, John Jefferson has recently resigned both his position as councillor and his membership of the Labour Party. The obscene way they've conducted the Labour Party campaign in Littleborough and Saddleworth is a prime example of their shift. Many thought it lamentable that the Labour Party spent so much time trying to rip the Lib-Dem candidate to shreds for suggesting that raves should be considered a part of our culture, and that the decriminalisation of cannabis should be the subject of an investigation by the Royal Commission. There's a big culture difference.
National government has lost the plot, it's all about window dressing.
They should free up local government to help the enabling process with local groups. This brings us back to the disturbances on the Marsh Farm Estate. For as long as the erosion of mutual respect continues between youth and the politicians responsible for legislation, disturbances such as these will continue. I think one of the things we've been very bad at in society as a whole is pretending that young people are homogenous. What you need is a range of different things happening for young people all the way through from scout groups to very very informal situations.