Shadowy groups of hooded teenagers of ambiguous ethnicity huddle in parks and underpasses littering the ground with their nasty little silver cannisters of death and polluting the air with their vulgar language and disrespect.
This is the picture of Britain the government is trying to paint.
This is a government of gestures and it’s no surprise that during a cost of living crisis, with the country reeling from strike action and trust in the police at an all-time low, it would seek to fight wars against imaginary foes rather than face the real impact of its failures.
