Society

That's right - society. All of us. Because we have allowed ourselves to degenerate to the point where a 4 year old child can be allowed to be beaten and starved to death right under our noses, and nobody has the courage to stand up and start asking difficult questions.
Daniel Pelka was seen by doctors, police and teachers who couldn't possibly have missed the signs - i.e. bruises, facial injuries, broken arms and scavenging for food - but such is everyone's fear of responsibility these days that no one opened their gob and really challenged his mother about it. Now, that poor child is dead, and his blood is on all our hands.

We have a culture of spineless authority, where people are more interested in covering their backs and protecting themselves than doing the jobs they are being paid way too much money for. There are silver-spooned weaklings running the country who allow this to continue while ignoring the erosion of law and order and the breakdown of society.

Our prisoners are overcrowded because they're too nice. If prisons consisted of a cage and the bare minimum of food I guarantee you the number of repeat offenders would plummet. Think how much money could be saved by bringing back the death penalty. Who among us wouldn't want to see Jamie Bulger's killers hanging from a gibbet? Or Baby P's killers? Daniel's? The list goes on and on, and it's growing, because there's no deterrent anymore.

We're all to blame. We let this happen. So we have to be nominated as bell-ends; I would suggest we would even win the award for Bell-end of the century.