In the wake of the highly publicised fall out between British Olympic divers Blake Aldridge and Tom Daley, when the older man seemed to blame their joint failure squarely on his 14-year-old partner's shoulders, many world leaders are now blaming a range of problems on any young person they can find.
America's sub prime mortgage crisis and the subsequent global credit crunch have been blamed by World Bank leader Robert B. Zoellick on a small boy who was playing football near a pile of important papers. "The little guy knocked his ball into some sheets and didn't put them back properly", he said. "That's just his age coming through".
China have blamed all of their image problems due to protests about Tibet and the disrupted Olympic torch run on 7-year-old Yang Peiyi, the same girl who actually sang the song for the Olympic opening ceremony, but was deemed too ugly to appear. They also blame her for the rising smog levels in Beijing.
More predictably, Gary Glitter blamed "those sexy kids" for his current penal woes (in every sense), and Pete Townshend blamed his "little nephew" for the persistent no-show of his book.
Gordon Brown played true to form when he seemed to have misjudged the latest political trend, actually breaking an 8-year-old boy's arm in anger at the boy's apparent fiscal blunders. "He's the reason no likes me!", he moaned.
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