IMAGINE taking your precious, tiny child out for a stroll then pushing its buggy into a riot while you launch an attack on a police officer.
Sounds ridiculous, far fetched, cruel and inhumane doesn’t it?
But this is exactly what Nevey Smith did as violent protests raged through the country last month.
The 21-year-old mum was in Manchester when she stumbled across the violence, “lost her temper”, and barged to the front so she could get stuck in and throw water at the officer guarding a hotel full of asylum seekers.
Smith has pleaded guilty to violent disorder, which hopefully means she’s had a wake-up call and will stop being such a feral mother.
If she doesn’t learn to put her child first, that poor tot will undoubtedly be dragged into the quagmire alongside her mum.
The riots have shown how broken Britain is and the number of children who have been involved has been utterly shocking.
But isn’t it time the law also focused on the parents who failed them?
The youngest offenders were two boys aged 12.
Both admit violent disorder.
And one, a lad from Manchester, took part in two rampages.
He was seen handing a rock to his friend, attacking a bus and throwing “a missile at a police van”.
In court the judge said he was more involved in the riots than any other adult or child and warned him: “It’s time to stop letting your mum down now.”
She looked tearful in the courtroom, probably realising just how much she has actually let her child down.
His gran later admitted she had tried to keep the lad under control, but failed.
And his father? Well, he is already in prison. I hope his son never joins him behind bars.
But it makes you wonder what real, solid parenting this poor lad was ever given from the off.
The thugs are not just boys.
A 13-year-old girl became the youngest female convicted after punching and kicking a hotel entrance during a protest.
She may have committed an adult crime but clutched her mother’s hand like a terrified child during the court case.
Her childhood is over now though.
And every single one of these parents has failed their kids badly.
Children aren’t born bad or evil.
But they can easily go off the rails and unless they are cared for properly, they never get back on them.
The gran of Britain’s worst rioter says he’s already out of control, but that didn’t happen overnight.
Parenting is not an easy job, especially when your dad is in the nick.
Neither is getting help from social services or the NHS.
But fighting those tough battles in the early years is easier than the pain of one day watching your child get locked up in a vile young offenders’ institution, where they will learn how to survive in the criminal underworld.
If these same children had misbehaved at school, those shameful parents would have been dragged in to see the head.
Social services would be alerted.
Shouldn’t they be dragged in to see the judge and face the consequences of their own actions?
Perhaps then they would realise that one of the worst crimes is allowing your own child to become a criminal.
HOW wonderful that a team of human mums took it in turns to openly breastfeed in front of Mujur, an orangutan at Dublin Zoo, to show her how to get her offspring to latch on.
Two of her baby orangutans have died because she didn’t know how to feed them.
But thanks to the open lessons, 19-year-old Mujur’s new baby boy is thriving.
But I can’t help wondering why on earth the women actually had to completely strip off to give the lesson.
Imagine that on the tube!
I DIDN’T watch the series of Love Island where Molly-Mae met bruiser Tommy (no need for surnames, obvs) so wasn’t overly fussed with either of them until they actually split up.
But now, along with the rest of the country, I am . . . obsessed.
I have taken to stalking her Instagram – the clothes, the house, baby Bambi – and totally get the “Molly-Mae Effect”, thanks to her wonderful down-to-earth, approachable manner.
Tommy is a chump for cheating on her.
WE are known for having a stiff upper lip.
But Team GB runner Rose Harvey took it to the next level at the Paris Olympics when she completed the marathon with a broken leg.
She finished in two hours, 51 minutes and three seconds, despite realising after two miles she had a problem and was running 24 miles in absolute agony.
Rose says the downhills were “hell”.
But she couldn’t give up because she wanted to complete her dream of completing an Olympic marathon.
Rose says that “in any other race” she would have stopped.
I think many other people would have stopped even if they were in the Olympics.
Must have been agony.
I DO wish AI had been around when I used dating apps.
Justine Moore, a venture capitalist from San Francisco, went viral with her tweet this week when she discovered that ChatGPT could accurately estimate a date’s height from their photograph by using proportions and surroundings to estimate how tall they are.
You’ve got to wonder why men lie about their height, but they do.
I once met a bloke who had told me he was 6ft.
But when we met in a pub and he stood up to greet me, he was clearly closer to 5ft.
Unfortunately, I didn’t have the courage to cruelly walk out the door and was driving, so couldn’t even fleece him for free booze.
A good two hours of my life wasted.
THERE is utter outrage because Donald Trump’s Turnberry golf course is set to charge players £1,000 a round.
It has been branded “crazy”, with the fees doubling from last year making it among the most expensive in the world.
Some horrified golfers say it is “pricing ordinary people out”.
But golf is such a snobby, elitist game in the first place.
I don’t know many “ordinary” folk who would actually fork out for the 2024 prices.
I will stick to running, it’s free.
THEY say you should take up a hobby before you retire – and Tom Daley has certainly done that.
He was never without his knitting needles at a tournament.
Now he’s announced his retirement from diving and is already appearing in a new commercial for Malibu, wearing knitted trunks.
Tom is 30, so has years of retirement ahead.
I dread to think how many more pairs of woolly trunks he might stitch before he is eligible for his bus pass.
MORRISONS is the latest retailer to make a self-checkout U-turn and is reviewing the balance between them and manned tills.
Good.
The supermarket’s boss admits it “went a bit too far” with the number of unmanned tills.
You’re not kidding.
They are the most frustrating thing about doing the groceries.
It can take ages to finally get that satisfying barcode beep, and they give the growing number of shoplifters an easy route to nick the finest steak for their tea.
How wonderful would it be to have more humans being given jobs, instead of computers.
SVEN-GORAN ERIKSSON has hit out at newspapers in interviews to promote his new Amazon TV show.
Looking back on his time as England manager, he says of the Press: “I mean they didn’t show any morals at all.”
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That’s rich coming from a man who cheated on Nancy Dell’Olio with Ulrika Jonsson, had an affair with FA secretary Faria Alam and entertained anyone who would offer him a bigger pay packet behind the back of his England employers.
Still, you’ve got to love the cheek of the man!
