The Conservative Party have a speech by David Cameron which makes a couple of references to young people and drugs:
… we’ve retreated from our streets into our homes.
And the result?
Our public space – our streets – have been taken over.
Parks where kids take drugs rather than play football.
City centres filled with drunks on a weekend night.
Inner-city estates with armed gangs.For many, these are the real no-go areas of our society…these are the places where we really feel unwelcome, intimidated and unsure.
If we are to take on this culture of violence and crime, it’s now absolutely vital that we take back our public spaces.
This doesn’t mean creating an army of vigilantes and have-a-go heroes.
It means restoring – and enhancing – all the elements of social interaction and community life which have been eroded.
And:
This morning I opened Amir Khan’s new boxing gym in Bolton.
It’s a great example of someone giving back to his community – using his time and money to get kids off the streets and offering them a new direction and purpose in life.
Some people might argue that teaching boxing doesn’t make young people less violent, and that boxing is dangerous. They’re wrong on both counts. Better in a boxing ring, than hanging around on the streets…Better looking up to Amir than some drug dealer on the street.
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