John Major has today said "I grew up in the 1930s with an unemployed father. He did not riot. He got on his bike and looked for work, and he went on looking until he found it.".

Speaking at Alton Towers John Major’s comments come in a week that has seen gangs of children, some still in their prams involved in squatting houses left empty by families on holiday on an ever more frequent basis.

John Major’s comments are both brave and perceptive. In a country where children as young as five are regularly exposed to gangs of children, some still in their prams it is about time that someone had the guts to stand up and tell the truth. Gangs of children, some still in their prams and the liberal communist atheist society that spawns them must be eliminated.