Blair on Criminal Justice

[VectraMan]

I saw Tone's motorcade make a right turn through a no-right turn junction outside Bristol Temple Meads today. What's the penalty for that I wonder?

I can't help feeling we should just cut out the middle men and hand over control of the country to The Sun. It'd solve a lot of problems.

[John Galt]

The problem that I have with this is that, I think I am right in saying, laws and sentencing guidelines are passed down from Government. This is just typical NL spin as a result of all the hoo ha last week. Trouble is there will be people out there saying 'oh that Tony Blair isn't he wonderful, I feel safer already' - morons!!

[AlfredJPruffock]

The increasingly bizzare antics of this government, eg continual inconclsuive frenzied debate, lies,irrational decision making,paranoia and delusions of grandeur etc leads one to suspect they are abusing class A substances, most likely stimulants such as Amphetamines or Cocaine.

Laugh if you like but Hitler was addicted to Cocaine and later Amphetamine, hence the mad staring eyes and irrational behaviour.

[Dundeegeorge]

Oi, keep it down you

noisy fscking electric dustbins.
You can't hear yourself think round here, obviously not a problem for some of the regulars, but nonetheless.........

[Emperor Dalek]

Oi, get back to work you two.

[Black Dalek]

Ex-ter-min-ate,Ex-ter-min-ate,Ex-ter-min-ate,Ex-ter-min-ate,Ex-ter-min-ate,Ex-ter-min-ate,Ex-ter-min-ate,Ex-ter-min-ate,

[Gold Dalek]

I'm afraid it has to be:-

Ex-ter-min-ate,Ex-ter-min-ate,Ex-ter-min-ate,Ex-ter-min-ate,Ex-ter-min-ate

HTH

[xoggoth]

Why are they constantly running around like headless chickens over totally obvious concerns which any government with the slightest capability would have been tackling in a quiet way since being elected?

What?? The public dont like hordes of convicted foreign rapists wandering about or child molesters getting £50 fines??? That never occurred to us, we must do something!!!!

[hyperD]

By effectively removing debate from these issues in the first place and aligning their misguided legislation to their idealistic gods of Fairness, Bureaucracy and Manipulation, they have run out of figures and soundbites to cover up their incompetence: the people know it has failed.

But in true liebour style, give Campbell credit for his sheer audacity, after nine years they turn around and say: "we need to have a serious debate about this". From the party that stifles debate, refuses to be accountable and ignores the electorate.

[Troll]

In the old days the holding of enquiries was a good stalling tactic for politicians.... today Labours equivalence seems to be to suggest debate is needed...i.e. the problems ours

[wendigo100]

Tony Blair's swathe of law and order measures seems to be more about winning elections than really tackling crime, a leading criminologist has said. In advice published by Downing Street, Oxford University's Ian Loader said some initiatives were "like putting a plaster on a broken leg".

Prof Loader complained about the government's "legislative hyperactivity", with more than 40 law and order acts since 1997.

"As an observer, I confess this has left me somewhat baffled - activity that seems to have more to do with the imperatives of electoral competition than a serious effort to address problems of crime and disorder," he said.

The "dizzying pace" of initiatives had made it more difficult for the Home Office to concentrate on managing the system, he argued.

Sums up New Labour's whole modus operandi.

[Troll]

What happned to the 'tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime' approach....

"Crime, immigration, security, because of the emotions inevitably raised, the headlines that scream, the multiplicity of the problems, we desperately, urgently need a rational debate from first principles," he will argue.

utter tosh

[ratewhore]

From the beeb:

He is expected to say: "I have come to the conclusion that part of the problem in this whole area has been the absence of a proper, considered and intellectual debate about the nature of liberty in the modern world."

New Labour - sorting the wheat from the chaff...




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