I dispute the writer's use of the word yob. It's poor term for the disgustingly ignorant behavior that so characterizes the more rightward adherents in the 21st Century.  First of all in my experience yobs are the more classic lefty of the street corner boys, they don't take well to discipline and the idea of yobs being capable of effectively organizing themselves into paramilitary unit is absurd. For that you have to go to the Skinhead or the Punk, both products of the 50's and 60's, a reaction by working class to the more rightward looking middleclass, who had all the stuff and houses, plenty to eat, warm and dry in the winter, and generally being smart-asses who did well at school. The idea of preserving the past for the Skinhead quickly turned angry and that's when they basically became ethnic cleansers and carried Saint George's Cross. The Punks always remained kind of gentle lefties, and they were mostly perfectly capable of giving you a good discussion about this and that without the whole conversation ending in physical altercation.  My own preference for the current right of the political spectrum would be chav or for the girls chavette. The Oxford English Dictionary in the year 2000, accepted this definition of a chav:  ".....person who displays brash and loutish behaviour and wears real or imitation designer clothes." Behaviour is the Oxford Dictionary's way of spelling behavior. Mind you, safe to say, that I rather enjoyed the yob lifestyle, didn't have much of nothing, didn't care, so not the sort of person who'd get remotely excited about free shipping and certainly wouldn't be seen dead mincing around in a designer anything, far too classy for that sort loutish behavior.