Tea and cake or death

The title for this blog post comes from an Eddie Izzard sketch (have a look on YouTube if you've never seen it!) however, it also presents the options available to the British citizen today. Riot or drink tea (http://www.operationcupoftea.com/). I've been wanting to blog something about the events of recent days - but don't want to jump on the blamegame bandwagon nor to join the ranks condemning a failed generation. For the main reason that this is MY generation!! Yes an angry, lawless minority have caused havoc and destruction. They've ruined peoples livelihoods, damaged families and brought fear into society. But this is not a failed generation, any generation could produce such individuals...history tells us that! The real proof of what this generation, even this nation, is like is how we respond. Do we opt for despair, for fear, for anger...or do we refuse to be beaten - to unite our communities - to clear up and carry on? I could feel ashamed to be a young person in Britain today - but I choose to feel proud. I choose hope, I choose restoration, I choose to come out stronger not weaker...I choose tea.

There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea. Bernard-Paul Heroux