I WAS angry to read of the increase in anti-social behaviour in Hamble, particularly involving the Pink Ferry, which is a much loved facility for residents of Warsash and Hamble.

A proposed meeting with youth services and the police is planned for next month. What’s the point of that? The kids will be back at school/college by then and will have got away with it.

While travelling on the X5 bus from Southampton last Monday, I witnessed a group of young boys in Barnes Lane, Sarisbury, throw drinks through the open windows, soaking two elderly ladies.

None of the above incidents surprise me any more, in fact I have been predicting it for years.

First we did away with National Service, headteachers can’t adequately discipline any more and good parenting is practically non-existent.

Hardly surprising that children are behaving the way they do and will approach adulthood with no respect for anyone or anything.

The law needs to change whereby parents are held responsible for their child’s behaviour and will be charged/fined if offences occur.

Whilst attending a showing of the Spitfire film last week where 18-year-olds were fearlessly flying aircraft and engaging in dogfights with the enemy so we could all live in freedom, I compared them to the youth of today.

Lack of discipline and respect, haircuts like chimpanzees, tattoos/tramp stamps and piercings from every orifice are what we have today.

Shameful.

JACQUI BROADBRIDGE

Warsash