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We criticise politicians when they belittle our industry but dont praise them in the rare instances when they do...
I assume this is a product of the Games Up campaign. If so, nice work, guys.

I bet he feels really proud to say that TELLYTUBBIES taught his child to count, its disgusting !!!I dont know about you, but my daughter learnt to count from our parenting !!!!!! - yet another one being babysat by the Evil Box O lights, no wonder kids run round with knives stabbing all and sundry, vandalising and joyriding and stamp on peoples heads in gangs like ferral dogs, where are the parents whilst the TV babysits and educates, this is LAZY PARENTING and the easy way out !! - Dont get me wrong, I have a 50" TV and a PS3, but thats for the adults use who KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FANTASY AND REALITY, kids dont and they need our parenting and guidance

While in some ways I agree it could be seen as lazy parenting, I'm also sure he meant it as a broad statement that a teletubbies game supplemented his childs learning to count rather than the child actually switching their own console on and firing up the teletubby game and learning to count on their own. OBVIOUSLY he and his wife will have sat with the child and instead of using a book, they used an interactive media to engage the child - and it worked so who the hell cares? Get with the 21st century.
Kids stamping on other kids faces hasn't changed in hundreds of years, it's only as we have 24 hour news and an insistence on knowing everything that we hear about everything these days. I'll also add that kids that do these kinds of things GENERALLY are born with some kind of mental issue or develop it through chance events or bad parenting. Most are deprived kids emotionally or materially by their parents and are left to their own devices growing up in slum areas and falling in with gangs or other misguided kids. For the 'normal' or rich kids who do it, it's generally down to being bullied or pressure from parents to suceed that makes them snap - it's a different kind of child.
Now to totally generalise as you have regarding the evil box 'o lights is ludicrous and shows the ignorance of peole who jump on the media and MP bandwagon of trying to pretend you're responsible parents because you see the PS3 as an adults plaything. Plenty of adults commit crime too - should you censor yourself from using it in case you develop an urge to go murder someone?
Oh and theres a big difference between a Wii and a PS3 anyway in terms of content and maturity of the content.
I'm sure you are a good parent and your kids wont rape and murder anyone, but you and your kids arent' the problem, and neither are the MP's. It's 'generally' the poor cross-section of society who obey no rules, churn out fifty kids all paid for by us, get a seven bedroom house and then moa they cant get a job. These are 'generally' the ones who will commit crimes and yes, they may have a PS3 or XBox and they MAY have played Manhunt on it or GTA 4 - but this is not why they then go joyriding and maiming people. They would have done that anyway.
Too many people tie in loose connections to games when a crime is committed, mainly because its not understood and its seen as a socially retarded thing to do (gaming) so it must produce killers.
Get a grip and realise it's scumbag parents that generally create scumbag children.
Wel done to the MP for being level-headed

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