HAVING just read the story about a five-year-old boy being set-upon by a gang of children up north, I felt compelled to write.

Is it me or does anybody else reckon we have a very real and burgeoning underclass in this country.

I am not taking the snobbish, typical middle-class view.

I am reacting to what I see and read. There's a real lack of morals and discipline in the Briton of today.

Just look at those sisters in Derby aged 12, 14 and 16. They all have their own children and it's the taxpayer who is picking up the tab. Who does the mother blame? The school.

I genuinely worry for the future.

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