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Social fightback after English riots

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The prime minister will say the riots are the results of social problems which have "festered for decades and which have now exploded in our face."

He'll add that in parts of the country there has been a slow motion moral collapse¹ and he'll blame the state and its agencies for sometimes encouraging the worst aspects of human nature.

Mr Cameron will point to the riots as a reason to renew his campaign to fix what he's referred to before as "Britain's broken society" so there is to be a review of a whole range of policy areas, including schools, parenting and welfare in order to find solutions.

The Labour leader, however, will warn against what he says are knee-jerk gimmicks² which haven't been properly thought through.

He'll accuse the prime minister of taking a simplistic view of the riots, by seeing them as a problem of culture alone without considering the impact of lack of opportunity and deprivation³.

Ben Geoghegan, BBC News

1 collapse   

vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷

参考例句：

• The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。

2 gimmicks   

n.花招，诡计，骗人的玩意儿( gimmick的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Financial institutions are also often expected yield of gimmicks. 金融机构也往往以预期收益率为噱头。 来自互联网
• However these are just marketing gimmicks that propagate the myth. 然而这些只是噱头的营销传播的神话。 来自互联网

3 deprivation   

n.匮乏；丧失；夺去，贫困

参考例句：

• Many studies make it clear that sleep deprivation is dangerous.多实验都证实了睡眠被剥夺是危险的。
• Missing the holiday was a great deprivation.错过假日是极大的损失。