What Is Going On In Great Britain?

It has been an amazing four days as Great Britain is gripped by unprecedented riots that appear to be spreading rather than dissipating.
Supposedly, this round of riots is the result of the shooting of an unarmed man, Mark Duggan. Mr. Duggan was not exactly a member of the British Boy Scouts. Mr. Duggan had been a suspected drug dealer and gang member.
Oh yes, Mr. Duggan was Black. And he lived in the Black ghettos that are part of London. Mr. Duggan lived in Tottenham, one of the areas that are populated by a Black community that has been kept in poverty for decades.
It appears that at least once a decade, led by the Blacks in Brixton, riots occur in London. And they do spread across Britian.
But this time, it is different.
It appears that the rioter are more than the underclass Blacks that are venting their frustration.
It would seem to be much more than that. The rioters are not confined to the low-end areas of London. But they are spreading out all over Britain. This timeline shows that it did start in Tottenham, but spread to Enfield, not exactly a low-end London borough and a majority White area. After Enfield, then Brixton joined in the carnage. And it continued to spread to Hackney in Central London. And of course it could not be contained to London. By yesterday, the rioting spead to Birmingham, Britain's second largest city. And the carnage spread in and around London to the areas Clapham, Ealing, and Woolwich. And last night, the fun continued to march on Liverpool.
OK, so call your humble blogger a cynic, but I do not buy that all of this rioting is being caused because of one man that may or may not have been a bad egg being shot by police.
The British left is already blaming this on the austerity budget passed and in effect by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government. And that narrative is being pushed by Red Ken Livingstone, former London mayor and Member of Parliament. In the Washington Post, Red Ken said that the riots are the result of pent up frustration of an austerity budget, weak economy, and high unemployment. But this is rich and just pathetic:

"This is the first generation since the Great Depression that have doubts about their future."

Yeah, and I am sure that the youth of Britain did not have a tough time defending Britain from the Nazis and Fascists in World War II. Or that there have not been other economic downturns before. This is the worst. Evah.
There is a reason this dude is known as Red Ken.
I think that the real reason is, save for the Thatcher era, Great Britain has had this coming. And the reason is the Welfare State that Great Britain developed after World War II. A Welfare State that created an entitlement culture. Hey, I am out of work. Give me some money. Hey, I want to get free health care. Give it to me. Hey, I want to go to college and I don't want to pay for it. Give it to me. It goes on, and on.
I think that Iain Murray over at National Review hits it on the head. And here is the money paragraph:

I think what we are seeing in Britain is a conflation of two liberal dreams — that of the 1960s, in which parenting and tradition went out the window, and that of the 2000s, in which self-help was replaced by easy credit, benefits, and an all-mighty “health and safety” bureaucracy — together with the unfinished nature of the Thatcher revolution. Mrs. T enabled economic Thatcherism but was unable to finish the project of what I termed social Thatcherism, whereby a free society recognized the importance of what once were called manners.

And it is not just manners. It is as Philip Johnston at The Daily Telegraph calls the long retreat of order.
Mr. Johnston explores the joys and result of the Welfare State. Like many a conservative her in the United States, Mr. Johnston states this:

Part of the problem is that the breakdown of the family (or an unwillingness to form one) has left a generation of feral adolescents without fathers or any adult males to act as role models. Parents rarely know what their children are doing, and exercise little power or authority over them. Instead, their loyalty is to the gang and to its codes, rather than to the prevailing moral orthodoxies of the majority of the population. Low-level criminality is a way of life – as, for some, are drugs, robbery and routine armed violence.

If you are a defender of the Welfare State and or a liberal, you will not want to read the rest of Mr. Johnston's piece.
Or that he is right.
We have already had a highlight of this kind of attitude in the Wisconsin budget fight. Labor unions causing a ruckus and disrupting government at the state level.
Bottom line is this.
There is no excuse to riot. Evah. Whenever anyone or any group makes excuses for it, they are not just enabling but making it easier for the next time. Because there will be a next time.
As long as there is a breakdown in law and order, there will always be those just waiting for their chance to do what is happening in Great Britain. And they will want to do it bigger and better.