Family served with eviction notice from Wandsworth Council

[minestrone]

Hostels are generally local authority funded and his mother is deemed to have made herself deliberately homeless. This is a crazy piece of Newspeak.

They could always get their soggy arses out and get a job rather than bumping their gums about hooman rights to the papers.

I am actually glad there is being a bit of a shake down during the post riot period. People have ahd a bit of an eye opener as to the general level of useless theiving scum we prop up. Welfare reform should go through quite easily now.

[MarillionFan]

Not sure about the eviction idea, seems heavy handed and needs to be used for the worst cases.

I am impressed with the more
heavier sentences the courts have been handing out by sending rioters of all types (whether their first ever crime or multiple) straight to jail - do not pass go - do not collect £200.

Some of the reactions of people sent to jail have been along the lines of 'b b b but it was only a bottle of wine' I think the knowledge that if your caught for
rioting/looting you're going away for
six months will act as a deterrent to
many.

[centurian]

Some of the reactions of people sent to jail have been along the lines of 'b b b but it was only a bottle of wine' I think the knowledge that if your caught for
rioting/looting you're going away for six months will act as a deterrent to many.

WHS

Some of the sentances are harsh, but they need to be.

So many looted because sentancing policy has become so soft that people thought that if they were caught, they would get a caution at worst.

The next time someone's BlackBerry goes off with a call to loot, people might think twice now.

[PAH]

If they're are already on the lower rungs of the social care ladder, where do they fall to? Homelessness? That's really going to desuade them from robbing, looting, and generally not giving a tulipe about the community.

Better to move them into cheaper, crapper housing (there must be some seeing as their current gaff is valued at over 200k, must be a f*****g palace!) and give them community repair orders.

Get them cleaning up the mess and dealing with the abuse from fellow scumbags. There are loads of crap jobs that are having to be filled with exploited east-europeans, so get these doing that as a community service on minimum wage. No need for benefits then.

[Old Greg]

They could always get their soggy arses out and get a job rather than bumping their gums about hooman rights to the papers.

I am actually glad there is being a bit of a shake down during the post riot period. People have ahd a bit of an eye opener as to the general level of useless theiving scum we prop up. Welfare reform should go through quite easily now.

Never underestimate the power of inertia. We still support the same banking and MP scum.

[MarillionFan]

Get them cleaning up the mess and dealing with the abuse from fellow scumbags. There are loads of crap jobs that are having to be filled with exploited east-europeans, so get these doing that as a community service on minimum wage. No need for benefits then.

I have never understood where communities who have large number of unemployed do
not have community work schemes aligned with the local councils where basic painting/decorating/cleaning skills etc are not taught and
employed. Then those out of work would decorate the flats of others on social housing , would
clean the streets, tidy up, mow the parks, prune the trees etc in exchange for their
benefit plus maybe a community
top up. They would maybe only need to do two days per week each.

The argument against has always been that someone employed is put out of work and the unions would strike, but as most councils outsource their work to the private sector this doesn't hold water. Reduce council outgoings by making those you pay to sit at home work in the community for two days, they become insentivised and get a work ethic and start to respect their community. Winners all round shirley?

[wobbegong]

Just copy-pasting newspaper articles without commenting again?

She only looks 18 herself, even as a very young teen mum she doesn't look nearly old enough to have an 18-year-old kid.

Also... they are thrown out as being SUSPECTED of a crime?!

That's not his Mum, it's his girlfriend, one curiously named "J-Neil Starkei" (who in a later shot looks as if she's about to produce yet another asset to society).

[NotAllThere]

.... Welfare reform should go through quite easily now.

Maybe the police were told to hang back for that very reason...

[BlasterBates]

There are plenty of people in this woman´s position who don´t have a council flat, so what about their rights? And no they won´t end up homeless, the state will provide them some accomodation, it´s just a council flat is better. Might make parents think a bit harder about how they bring their kids up, instead of disowning their responsibility.

[minestrone]

We should make people in council houses sign good behaviour bonds from now on.