With schools turning out a generation of illiterate hoodlums, crime threatening our every movement and a Government that treats criminals with kid gloves rather than forcibly immasculating them, is it any wonder that, once more the poor have been plotting to kidnap a senior royal?

What is needed is some very serious discipline. We can beat sense into the poor - all it takes is a little British spunk, some backbone and a big stick.

Instead sickos, perverts and communists are allowed to crawl the streets with impunity. Plotting to kidnap a senior royal must no longer be tolerated, especially when perpetrated by the poor.

Speaking exclusively to the Mail about the poor, Enoch Powell said "the day of the yob is upon us".