Friday, November 29, 2013

275. Nenhuma religião ou ideologa poderá servir de suporte a assassinos

Cartesiano horrified!

Esta escória da raça humana mataram o homem na rua com cutelo de carniceiro. Imaginem a morte horrorosa do jovem. Primeiro atropelaram-no e depois cortaram-no à cutelada. O homem estava desarmado e não andava a fazer mal a ninguém. Andava tranquilamente e em paz a tratar da vida dele.

Os dois assassinos, autores do homicídio, estão agora a responder no banco dos réus do Tribunal Criminal de Londres, o Old Bailey, perto da Catedral de São Paulo e da Millenium Bridge. Do outro lado  desta ponte, margem sul do Thames,  está situado o Globe  theatre de Shakespeare e a Tate Modern, gallerie de arte moderna.

Gente desta só faz sugice desta e esperemos que estes dois monstros apodreçam nas masmorras de Bellmarch em Woolwich.

Nós aqui em Nampula ficámos enojados com tal ação. Como é possível haver no mundo gente tão demoníaca.

Estes malucos andam a utilizar o nome de deus (sabemos lá qual, há para aí tantos) para deitar o pus venenoso que têm dentro das cabeças deles. Nenhum deus tem nada a ver com as paranóias desses estouvados. 

Esses deuses  não precisam destes loucos para nada e fogem deles como do diabo! O Ocidente não é certamente um bom modelo de sociedade a seguir, também está podre com o  modelo capitalista, mas essas crenças fanáticas da Idade Media estão verdadeiramente  muito atrazadinhas! Deus nos livre disso.  

O Ocidente sofreu tanto com o fundamentalismo cego do cristianismo milenarista, e certamente que não vai agora regressar à Idade da Pedra dos dogmas religiosos dessa gente. Merci beaucoup, on ne veut pas de ça. Touche du bois. Suckers!

Esperemos que não mandem para aqui para Nampula uma condenação à morte por sermão mortal de um dia e uma noite, emitida pelo grande chefe cabeça de atum. F.O, mate!

Onde a gente chegou em termos de liberdade de expressão! Esses tipos têm de ser desafiados, contestados, challenged! Vocês andam por aí pela Europa cheios medo deles com essa politically correctness bullshit!

Be honest, have the guts to be straightforward and just speak your mind! You wouldn't say less than us here in Nampula.


Se não fosse a imigração europeia vocês aí n Reino Unidos qualquer dia tinham aí uma teocracia  com madrassas a substituir os pubs e o tea a substituir a abençoada Foster e John Smith. Veriam depois o que fariam dos Tribunais da Coroa! Mudava só o C para K e ficava Karoa. Lol!

Lembramos que somos um blog sarcástico, não para isto ser tomado a sério, ria, ria, e nada neste blog deve migrar para a realidade. São apenas palavras sem significado e sem valor na vida real.

Quando tiver acabado de ler, esqueça! God willing.




Lee Rigby trial: Killing 'cowardly and callous', court hears

Court sketch The suspects appeared together in the dock, separated by security

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The killing of soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich, south-east London, was a "cowardly and callous murder", the Old Bailey has heard.
It was told that Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, drove at Fusilier Rigby before attempting to decapitate him on the street close to his barracks on 22 May.
Both are also accused of attempting to murder a police officer and conspiracy to murder a police officer.
They both deny all charges.
'Like a butcher'
There were gasps in court as CCTV footage was shown of Fusilier Rigby being rammed by a car and thrown into the air and onto the bonnet.
The footage showed the soldier walking along the street wearing a Help for Heroes T-shirt and a backpack, before the car veered across a carriageway, hitting him from behind.
Footage showing Lee Rigby at Woolwich DLR station on the day he was killed CCTV footage showed Fusilier Rigby at Woolwich station shortly before the attack
The jury was then shown images from two CCTV cameras of the two men dragging the unconscious Fusilier Rigby's body into the road, stopping traffic.
The two defendants arrived at court amid tight security and appeared in a glass-lined dock in the Old Bailey courtroom with paper on one side to restrict their view.

Throughout this morning's opening evidence in court 2 of the Old Bailey, Richard Whittam QC took the jury carefully through detailed - but extremely graphic - evidence.
He described in precise detail the manner of the assault and killing of Lee Rigby, and throughout this evidence everybody in court sat in utter silence.
The defendants, sitting in the dock with seven security officers, could not see Fusilier Rigby's family.
Part of the glass surrounding the dock had been papered over to block their view.
As the prosecutor told the jury he was about to show the soldier's final movements, Lyn Rigby, Lee's mother, quietly left the court with tears in her eyes.
When the jury saw the video of the car ramming into the soldier it took the breath away of some watching in court.
And then silence returned.
Members of Fusilier Rigby's family attended as the prosecution made its opening statement.
The soldier's mother Lyn Rigby left the court in tears as the prosecutor told jurors they were about to see her son's final moments.
Prosecutor Richard Whittam QC told jurors that the two suspects drove a Vauxhall Tigra "straight at" Fusilier Rigby at around 30-40mph.
He said: "Both men then dragged his body into the middle of the road. They wanted members of the public to see the consequence of what can only be described as their barbarous acts.
"They had committed, you may think, a cowardly and callous murder by deliberately attacking an unarmed man in plain clothes from behind, using a vehicle as a weapon, and then they murdered him and mutilated his body with that meat cleaver and knives."
Mr Adebolajo tried to decapitate the soldier with a meat cleaver with "multiple blows to his neck", while Mr Adebowale stabbed and cut him, the jury heard.
Mr Whittam said it appeared that Mr Adebolajo "made a serious and almost successful attempt to decapitate" Fusilier Rigby.
Mr Adebolajo carried a cleaver in his right hand and knelt down and took hold of the soldier by the hair, hacking at the right side of his neck just below the jaw line, the prosecutor said.
An eyewitness described three blows.
Another witness, Gary Perkins, described the defendant's actions as being "like a butcher attacking a joint of meat", the prosecutor said.
At the same time, Mr Whittam said, Mr Adebowale "was using a knife to stab and cut at the soldier's body".
Fusilier Rigby Fusilier Rigby was 25 when he was killed
The jury heard that a woman, Vikki Cave, approached Fusilier Rigby's body as others were comforting him to see if she could help and she heard Mr Adebolajo talking about religion.
"He was "saying things about religion such as 'these soldiers go to our land, kill/bomb our people - so an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth'," Mr Whitham said.
Ms Cave asked Mr Adebolajo if they were safe, and he responded that women and children were but they should keep back when the police and soldiers arrive.
The jury were shown a mobile phone video clip of Mr Adebolajo with blood on his hands, saying Fusilier Rigby was killed "because Muslims are dying daily by British soldiers".
And the jury heard that he handed a hand-written note to Amanda Donnelly Martin attempting to justify the attack by saying it was in retaliation for "oppression" of people in Muslim countries.
Mr Whittam told the jury that "to seek out and to kill political opponents on the grounds that you say that they have oppressed your countrymen or people of your religion is still murder".
He said "disputes have to be settled by lawful means, not retaliation".
'Children turned back'
The court heard that the men were also armed with a gun which was used to scare off members of the public before the emergency services arrived.
As the police drove into Artillery Place, where the incident had taken place, Mr Adebolajo raised the meat cleaver above his head and moved towards the vehicle.
The BBC's June Kelly: "The Jury has been shown CCTV footage of the car hitting Lee Rigby"
Mr Whittam said that meanwhile, Mr Adebowale ran along the side of a wall and aimed the gun - which it was revealed was not loaded - at officers.
Both men were then shot by the police and arrested.
The jury heard Mr Adebolajo sustained a wound to his upper left bicep, and Mr Adebowale had wounds to his thumb, abdomen and thigh.
While he was being treated by paramedics, Mr Adebolajo said: "Your government is all wrong. I did it for my God. I wish the bullets had killed me so I can join my friends and family," Mr Whittam said.
Family members and loved ones of murdered soldier Lee Rigby, Ian Rigby, his stepfather (L), his sister Sara McClure (C) and his mother Lyn Rigby (2-R) arrive at the Old Bailey in London on November 29, 2013 Members of Fusilier Rigby's family were in attendance
Both men have admitted possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence.
Praising the "bravery" of the public, Mr Whittam described how one woman went to Fusilier Rigby's lifeless body and "stroked him to provide some comfort and humanity to what had unfolded", while others went to see if they could provide first aid.
A woman spoke to Mr Adebolajo "despite the fact that he was still holding the meat cleaver and his hands were covered in blood", the jury heard.
More details about the suspects' movements in the lead-up to the attack were also outlined.
The jury heard that on the day before the attack, Mr Adebolajo bought a five-piece set of kitchen knives from a branch of Argos in Lewisham, south-east London - some of which were used in the attack.
Mr Adebolajo, from Romford, east London, has asked to be known as Mujaahid Abu Hamza in court, and Mr Adebowale, from Greenwich, south-east London, wants to be known as Ismail Ibn Abdullah.
Wrapping up his statement, Mr Whittam said that Fusilier Rigby had not been in military uniform when he was attacked - as Mr Adebolajo had told police officers - and he was attacked from behind.
The trial continues on Monday.



Thursday, November 28, 2013

274 sistema social no Reino Unido


cartesiano UK welfare secretary

Veja como funciona o Residence Test e o Right to Reside no Reino Unido.

Estas queixinhas do Davidito, PM do Reino Unido n#ao e mais do que retorica e populismo para conseguir barrar o caminho aos doidos do UKIP.  Tenmpo perdido, porque o UKIP vai estragar a festa aos Tories nas eleicoes de 2015. Nem vai ganhar um nem o outro. 

Para voce ter direito a subsidios sociais no Reino Unido voce tem de se por fino. E muito mais facil trabalhar do que viver na pedincha de subsidios.

De qualquer dos modos, se os salarios fossem dignos, ninguem tinha necessidade de pedir subsidios. O sistema de subsidios e salarios baixis existem porque os governs deste pais querem manter os salarios baixos para manter o desemprego baixo e a a exploracao das massas descerebradas. 

Depois o governo tem de top up (acrescentar) os salarios com subsidios para que os trabalhadores nao morram de fome. 

Estes subsidios sociais  e o que falta nos salarios, quer dizer, aquilo que roubaram aos trabalhadores. Sao eles que fazem os piores trabalhos, sofrem acidentes de  trabalho e ate morrem nesses trabalhos perigosos, e apenas ganham salarios de miseria os quais nem chegam para pagar a renda de casa. It sucks!

Esses subsidios sao tax credits, abono de familia, subsidio de habitacao, working tax credits, child tax credits, subsidios para o aquecimento da terceira idade no inverno, mas o maior subsidio e a facilidade de evasao fiscal concedida aos milionarios por este governo ultra-reacionario.





Q&A: What benefits can EU migrants get?

Polish delicatessen in Crewe, UK - file pic
Migration to the UK from Poland was much greater than expected after 2004

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The benefits that EU migrants can claim in another EU country vary across the 28-nation bloc, but certain basic rules are enshrined in EU law.
The issue has become a hot topic in the UK because in January the remaining labour market restrictions on citizens of Bulgaria and Romania will be removed across the EU. After EU enlargement in 2004 the UK experienced a far greater influx of East Europeans than had been anticipated.
Can EU migrants easily claim benefits when they arrive in another EU country?
No - there are conditions, depending on an individual's circumstances.
They can stay for three months, but to stay longer after that they have to be: in work; or actively seeking work with a genuine chance of being hired; or be able to show they have enough money not to be a burden on public services. Apart from that, evidence of benefit abuse or fraud is grounds to exclude or expel a person.
If an EU migrant has permission to stay, can he or she then claim benefits?
Not automatically - a migrant still has to pass a "habitual residence test" under EU law.
The test covers factors such as the duration of the migrant's stay; their activity, including their source of income if they are students; their family status; and their housing situation. The migrant has to demonstrate a sufficient degree of attachment to the host country. The amount of time already spent in the country is not sufficient qualification in itself.
If a jobseeker satisfies the test in the UK then that person can claim Jobseekers Allowance - up to £71 ($116) weekly for a single person, £111.45 for a couple.
An EU migrant who is in work in the UK, or self-employed, and who passes the test, can claim housing benefit and council tax benefit. The amounts vary, depending on the local authority.
The UK applies an additional "right to reside" test, going beyond the standard EU test. The European Commission says the UK test is unfair and has taken the UK to the European Court of Justice over it. The Commission argues that EU migrant workers, who have paid UK taxes, should not be subject to the extra test in order to claim certain benefits.
Are EU migrants entitled to the same benefits as citizens of the host country?
Yes, if they are workers or self-employed - and their family members are too. However, access to certain benefits can depend on the amount of time a worker has been paying contributions. So a native of the host country may have more entitlements.
Jobless migrants are not entitled to the same range of benefits - mainly those which are funded from salary contributions. Workers pay social security contributions, to cover sickness, unemployment, maternity or paternity, invalidity or occupational injuries.
Polish workers sorting asparagus in Germany, file pic
Many German farms rely on seasonal workers from Eastern Europe
Is the UK benefits system more generous than those in other EU countries?
The systems are very diverse, so comparisons are difficult.
In terms of total spending on social security per inhabitant, the UK does not rank highest. In the UK the figure for 2010 was nearly 8,000 euros (£6,660; $10,880), the EU statistics agency Eurostat reports. In France and Germany it was nearly 9,000 euros, while in Denmark and the Netherlands it was above 10,000. At the other end of the scale, spending in Bulgaria and Romania was below 2,000 euros.
The Open Europe think-tank, campaigning for radical reform of the EU, says some countries have more flexibility than the UK in the area of "social assistance" benefits. Such benefits - targeting people in need - are usually means-tested and come out of general taxation, rather than salary contributions. In the UK, income support and housing benefit fall into that category.
In the UK, a bigger portion of welfare is funded by the state than is the case in Poland, France, Germany or the Netherlands. In those countries, more is funded from individual and employer contributions. In other words, more benefits are linked to previous earnings.
On the other hand, in several countries, including the Republic of Ireland, Sweden and Denmark, the share of state funding is higher than in the UK.
In Germany, there is a two-tier welfare system - part based on contributions, part non-contributory. An EU migrant made jobless in Germany would get up to 70% of current salary in the first year of unemployment. After that, the unemployed go onto a non-contributory system called Hartz IV. Germany has objected to paying those benefits to EU migrants who have not made sufficient contributions through work. But that policy has been challenged in the courts.
In Spain, welfare payments depend to a large extent on where you live as payments are handled regionally, rather than centrally. In Madrid there is a two-year residency test for RMI, which is paid to unemployed jobseekers. The benefits system in the Basque Country is rather less restrictive.
In Bulgaria you do not qualify for unemployment benefit unless you have been working for at least nine of the last 15 months.
What about healthcare?
Under EU law, EU citizens visiting for short periods can receive basic and emergency care with a European Health Insurance Card (EHIC).
It is the host country's responsibility to get the treatment costs reimbursed by the health service in the patient's home state. The UK government says the National Health Service needs to do more to get such costs reimbursed.
The UK is not the only EU member state to have a free, "universalist" health service, funded by taxpayers. Scandinavian countries have similar models, but most EU countries fund healthcare through medical insurance systems.
At least 400,000 Britons live in Spain full-time, a quarter of them pensioners, and they have free access to Spanish local doctors. The Spanish health service recovers the cost of their hospital treatment from the NHS - unless they have permanent residence status, in which case Spain pays for it.

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273. Governador de Londres e o planeta dos macacos

Cartesiano darwinista na lei da selva


O Mayor de Londres, o mavarick Boris Johnson a dizer num discurso que parte da população do Reino Unido tem um cérebro mais pequeno do que o de um pintainho. Sim, pelo menos os Londrinos tem, doutro modo nao teriam votado neste tipo.

Coitadinhos dos britânicos, vejam lá, então  não nascem descerebarados, segundo a opinião do governador reaça de Londres, Boris Johnson! So que o Reino Unido teve muito gloria quando nem Boris Johnson nem Davide Camarao andavam por ai.

Mas ele não diz que ele próprio e o seu partido Tory ultra-reaça, incuindo o PM Davis Cameron, levantaram as propinas das universidades para 9 mil libras, (mais caras do que as famosas americanas MIT, Harvard, Stanford etc. e  a fim de  fecharem as portas aos estudantes com menos recursos.

E depois dizem que não têm inteligência, quando eles próprios lhes esvaziam o cérebro, para depois lhes darem uma lavagem cerebral e facilmente convencer de aceitarem a condição deles de escravos dos tempos modernos: trabalhar o dia inteiro,  receber um salário de miséria e engordurar ainda mais a classe dirigente suína da Quinta dos Porcos.

Seria razoável ver o que as ideias do governador atual de Londres têm em comum com o eugenismo  Nazi. 


Nick Clegg accuses Boris Johnson of 'careless elitism'

Nick Clegg was unimpressed with Boris Johnson's "dispiriting" message
Nick Clegg has accused London Mayor Boris Johnson of "careless elitism" for suggesting that some people are not clever enough to succeed in life.

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Our job in politics is surely not to simply say we are going to hive off one bunch of people...and say they are parked and that there is not much we can do about them.”
Deputy PM Nick Clegg
Mr Johnson said in a speech that 16% "of our species" have an IQ below 85, and called for more to be done to help the brightest people in the country.
But Mr Clegg said it was "fairly unpleasant" to talk about people "as if we are a breed of dogs".

The Lib Dem leader said people should be encouraged and not told to give up.
Speaking on his weekly LBC radio phone-in he said that the danger of such a "deterministic" view of people based on their IQ was "complete anathema to everything I have stood for in politics".
'Dispiriting'
Mr Johnson made his comments as he delivered the Centre for Policy Studies' annual Margaret Thatcher lecture.

He defended the importance of "boardroom greed" and "some measure of inequality" as a spur to economic activity at a time when the income gap between those at the top and those at the bottom was getting ever wider.
Boris Johnson (file photo) Boris Johnson was making a speech honouring the late PM Margaret Thatcher

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I don't believe that economic equality is possible; indeed, some measure of inequality is...a valuable spur to economic activity”
London Mayor Boris Johnson
He said that any discussion about equality had to take account of the fact that people had different IQ levels, adding: "The harder you shake the pack, the easier it will be for some cornflakes to get to the top."

"I am afraid that violent economic centrifuge is operating on human beings who are already very far from equal in raw ability, if not spiritual worth," Mr Johnson said.

Commenting on the mayor's speech, Mr Clegg said: "Much though he is a funny and engaging guy, I think these comments reveal a fairly unpleasant, careless elitism that suggests we should somehow give up on a whole swathe of our fellow citizens."

He said politicians should be "instilling an opportunity culture" rather than sending out such a "dispiriting" message. 

"Our job in politics is surely not to simply say we are going to hive off one bunch of people and put them in one category and kind of basically say they are parked and that there is not much we can do about them."

Academic selection
Mr Johnson's speech has been widely reported as an attempt to shore up his position with the Conservative right and stake his claim as Lady Thatcher's political heir.

He argued that a new generation of "Gordon Gekkos" - a reference to the character in the film Wall Street whose mantra was "greed is good" - should do more to help the wider population but that their greed was a "valid motivator".

"For one reason or another - boardroom greed or, as I am assured, the natural and God-given talent of boardroom inhabitants - the income gap between the top cornflakes and the bottom cornflakes is getting wider than ever," he said. 

"I stress, I don't believe that economic equality is possible; indeed, some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity."

Prime Minister David Cameron's official spokesman said: "I don't know whether he has read Boris's speech but what I do know is the PM's view about the importance of equality of opportunity.

"When it comes to the PM's views around the importance of an entrepreneurial economy he gave a speech on the subject recently at the Mansion House," he added.

In his speech, the London mayor advocated a new generation of grammar schools, describing academic competition between children as a "most powerful utensil of academic improvement".

While acknowledging the former PM had closed many such schools, he suggested she would have found a way to bring them back under a different guise "to help bright children everywhere to overcome their background".

Mr Johnson also criticised the BBC's coverage of the late prime minister's funeral, accusing the corporation of trying to "foment an uprising" which never materialised.

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Monday, November 25, 2013

272 familias disfuncionais. Quem?

Cartesiano sociólogo cínico

Lamentamos que a aplicação de escrita automática deste computador nos tenha traído  neste artigo.  Verão a quantidade de erros ortográficos que se reproduziram a um ritmo viral. 

A colega que fez isto está a partir uma noz de coco e a rir à gargalhada. Está dizendo que fará uma revisão logo que possível.   OK. Agora deu uma martelada no coco e encheu o  quintal de estilhaços. O sumo do coco caiu todo e ela agora terá beber sumo doutro fruto, talvez aguinha.


Segundo o artigo seguinte,  o governo ultrareaça britânico de David Cameron, o Reino Unido, país a de religião anglicana, virou sagrada famíia milagrosa, ilusionistas de circo, os quais somente munidos de uma varinha mágica, comprada na feira da ladra, estão milagrosamente transmutando transcendentalmente famílias bullshit, (um sob-produto gerado por este e pelos governos anteriores)   em famílias mais puras do que oiro.

Assim sendo, o governo de David Cameron se metamorfou em um areópago de alguimistas materialistas. Obviamente que o resultado da alquimia está obviamente convertendo a House of Commons numa mina aurífera e laboratório alquímico converterndo   todo o papelão, incluindo os jornais velhos do defundo News of the World em   oiro para usufruição  do elenco governativo e associados privados. 

Só que essas famílias disfuncionais passaram de disfuncionais a famílias caóticas. Mudou o nome. O sistema económico do Reino Unido é um sistema disfuncional e obviamente que  tem de produzir contantemente  famílias disfuncionais. 

 O próprio governo Tory  de David Cameron é um governo disfuncional, o qual chegou ao poder por acidente, também de modo disfuncional, propulsado por uma  demagogia doentia e por milhões dos lobbies financeiros. A plebe  vota na embalagem brilhante sem verificar a podredão do produto.

Enquanto não mudarem os sistema no Reino Unido, não conseguirão deixar de produzir famílias disfuncionais. 

Esta ideia do governo de lançar estes temas bombásticos das famílias caóticas, imigração, subsídios sociais, anti-Europa, é uma tática de diversão, de distração para esconderem o falhanço total do desempenho do governo Tory.

Parece que ainda não fizeram nada certo, tudo errado, dá errado, e tentam agora desesperadamente esconder tudo detrás de um populismo nauseabundo, procuando bodes expiatórios para a mediocridade da atividade governamental.

Dizem estar  resolvendo os problemas das famílias caóticas, (não resolvem nada) aquelas em que os filhos e filhas deviam de espetar com os pais no tribunal e pildra por os ter gerado sem meios, e depois os ter abandonado à miséria mental e física,

E lançado  na natureza como objetos de exploração pelas castas superiores,

Deveriam também turn around essa bandidagen da G4S, do Serco, Atos, e os ministros e deputados envolvidos em corrupção física ou moral contra os valores do Reino Unido.

Essas farpas lançadas pelo primeiro ministro e  associados contra os mais vulneráveis da sociedade, os imigrantes, os doentes, todos os desgraçados a viver de subsídios porque os ordenados são baixíssimos e as rendas de casa são rip off, essa farpas agressivas são produto de uma má educação num getto social anti-social onde sempres viveu os primeiro e os seus acólitos.

Também deveria de haver um programa para educar essa gente etoniana, cuja formação turn around making money, big money  e lançar intrigas e conflitos entre as classes lumpenproletarizadas, para que estes se critiquem, matem e esfolem,  para eles, os pigs da animal farm continuarem mergulhados no maceirão do Bank of England sem serem inquietados.

Quem não que ser lobo não lhe vista a pele.


No que diz repeito ao subsídio de habitação, anda o povo todo a subsidiar os senhorios. Lembrem-se que esses subsídios não vão para os inquilinos, mas sim para os proprietários senhorios.

Quanto às famílias disfuncionais, descerebradas, elas continuam assim, desbussoladas,

porque milagres ninguém os faz,

Nem Deus nem santos porque já se despediram de nós, mandaram-nos fritar ovos, porque eles não estão mais para aturar malucos. Amen.




Lives of 22,000 troubled families 'turned around'

Police officer talking to girlThe scheme was launched by David Cameron following the 2011 riots

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The lives of 22,000 troubled families in England have been "turned around", according to the government.
The announcement comes at the half-way stage of a three-year programme to tackle 120,000 such families.
The £448m scheme was launched by Prime Minister David Cameron following the 2011 riots in various English cities.
The government defines troubled families as those facing multiple problems including unemployment, anti-social behaviour and truancy.
One estimate is that each troubled family costs taxpayers £75,000 a year.
Under the Troubled Families programme, councils are paid up to £4,000 for each family they get off the "troubled" list, often by giving them intensive, targeted support with all aspects of life.
The government says that authorities are now working with 62,000 families - half the overall target - 18 months into the programme, which ends in 2015.
'Great strides'
Ministers say 22,000 families have been turned around with children in school, youth crime and anti-social behaviour significantly reduced and more than 1,400 adults in continuous work.

Troubled families

The government defines troubled families as those that meet specific criteria in the following areas:
1. Under-18s involved in crime and/or family member involved in anti-social behaviour
2. Child excluded from school or is a regular truant
3. An adult on benefits
Where families meet two of the criteria but are "a cause for concern", councils can rule that other factors - including health problems - mean they are troubled families.
Source: Department for Communities and Local Government
The Department for Communities and Local Government said Wakefield had turned around more than half of its 930 troubled families and Leicestershire almost half of its 810.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said the results so far showed that councils were making "great strides".
"I am delighted that our programme is already helping half of our target of 120,000 troubled families at its mid way stage," he said.
"Councils are making great strides in a very short space of time, dealing with families that have often had problems and created serious issues in their communities for generations.
"These results show that these problems can be dealt with through a no-nonsense and common-sense approach, bringing down costs to the taxpayer at the same time."
Louise Casey, head of the Troubled Families programme, said: "This programme is getting to grips with families who for too long have been allowed to be caught up in a cycle of despair.
"These results show that a tough, intensive but supportive approach has a big impact; giving hope and opportunity to the families and respite to the communities around them."