The word 'YOUTH' has negative connotations

A rare victory for common se... no hold on - Political Correctness gone mad. Oh I don't know anymore, I'll suppose I'll sit here seething either way

in the last year our screens/posters have changed from

engineering work at the weekend

to rail improvement works

now we have route improvement works

same thing just spelt differently

MIDGET GEMS.

Take that.

pass the dutchie

so who sung that

I'd have thought 'offender' had more negative connotations, personally.

It's the crime and punishment bits that have negative connotations, surely?

The irony is that "youth" as a collective noun for, erm, youths was itself a pc invention.

Latalomne beat me to the punch there.

The trouble is the Tory spokesman in BC's OP talks about "coming down hard" which we already know doesn't work. What they need to do is come down effectively.