X Factor culture fuelled the UK riots, says Iain Duncan Smith

Work and Pensions Secretary

prevents disturbances recur unless structural reforms are made to communities and families

a "get rich quick" celebrity culture exemplified by the X factor and the dysfunctional lives of players has created a society "out of balance" work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, said In an interview topography Britain after the riots of the summer.

Duncan Smith, who as chairman of the Social Justice Committee of the cabinet is one of the key figures that define a response to the problems of the coalition, said there were "many possibilities "that are repeated unless problems that structural reforms were made to repair" the communities in which many families are broken. "

should call next week a large private sector investment to help prevent social disruption. They argue that government spending and private social failure can be reduced.

In an interview with The Guardian, Duncan Smith has welcomed the investigation by this newspaper in the riots, conducted jointly with the London School of Economics and argued that some of the looting and theft was driven by a culture of consumption expenditure. "If you look at the players, we look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is how you want to be." It seems that we are a society that celebrates the wrong people, "he said.

"Children want to believe that his visit to the silver is The X Factor. The odds are great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate the people who made the success of hard work seriously. "

also claimed fantastic rewards given to bankers who then cry to protect the government had increased the feeling that in some communities, it was "one rule for one and not the other."

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Guardian / LSE, which included interviews with 270 people who participated in the riots, has been studied by several cabinet ministers. Next week, Theresa May, the Minister of the Interior, will join the Metropolitan police commissioner, Bernard Hogan-Howe, and the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, in a conference to discuss the results.

Duncan Smith said the unrest could be explained in part by a series of short-term factors, including the police to be seen to lose control, the influence of gangs and a "mentality Crowd. " He said he accepted the findings Guardian / LSE that - for many involved -. "Sticking to the police" riots were, however, in a long interview, he discussed a number of structural problems in his opinion, were some of the blame, saying he wanted to create a balance in society, adding: "The balance is if you work hard, work hard, the reward is in balance with what is happening and what's available." " / aa>

also blamed monopoly capitalism, arguing that the free market philosophers and proponents of "moral contract" as the 18th century economist Adam Smith, has always warned against the opposite banks competition.

criticize the lack of male role models, who said that reforms of social housing is needed to break the marginalization of the poor.

• told to do more to protect the poor from lenders at creating credit unions of the type seen in Germany and the United States. "We have a moral obligation - I hate using the word moral - to reform the whole culture of how people access money from different communities and for what purpose"
• Duncan Smith also blamed a society in which "a sense of structure and authority in children's lives had collapsed." But angry rejected suggestions that the absence of media parent was only a problem in Africa, the Caribbean, saying it was not an ethnic issue simple, but cultural.
"In Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool are the white bands that share the same origins - who come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, especially mothers can not meet the parents of these children complete, not in the scene. "

said he had urged the Education Secretary Michael Gove, to do more to attract male teachers in primary schools, an urgent need to address. "This becomes a problem for children in which the model is only one man who is deeply dysfunctional and visit hubcaps that teaches," All you need to succeed is guts, qualifications aa'."

Duncan Smith said the goal of social justice was to put people on the first rung of social mobility, adding that he wanted a broader set of statistical indicators of progress that the income family, such as the nature of the family, rewards for work and other "pro-social norms."

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