Martin Narey, the chief executive of Barnardo's.

Martin Narey contradicts himself in classic Polly Toynbee fashion here.

First up we have this from The Grauniad's Comment is Free, where he says that they are not feral in an article entitled "Children are not feral beasts":link

I don't think I'm a soft touch when it comes to children. Twenty three years working with offenders before coming to Barnardo's revealed to me the damage which can be caused by a minority of children and young people. But, the key word here is minority. And yet, somehow, we have arrived at a point where children; all children; your children and my children, are routinely traduced.

Dismissed as worthless, they are referred to as "vermin", as "animals" or as "feral". If these words were used to describe black or gay people, there would be uproar. Yet this language is now casually used when talking about the youngest and most vulnerable in society.

In a survey, conducted for Barnardo's by YouGov, over half of the population agreed with the view that British children are beginning to behave like animals with just under half thinking that people are right to describe children as feral.

Yet we now have this in todays Telegraph he comes up with this: link

"It saddens me that the probability is that, had Baby P survived, given his own deprivation, he might have been unruly by the time he had reached the age of 13 or 14.
"At which point he'd have become feral, a parasite, a yob, helping to infest our streets"

Have we got another Polly Toynbee in the making...

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