People of Britain!
Do you feel unsafe on our streets? Do you worry you or someone you love is going to be stabbed?
Well relax. The government have come up with a solution to end knife crime. Take the perpetrators to A&E to see the consequences of their actions. Then everything will be alright.
What absolute bollocks.
Kids who knife other kids couldn 't care less about the consequences. As long as they feel 'respected', then it doesn't matter who lives or dies. So this won't work.
It's only by them doing hard time that will have any effect and make the rest of us feel safe. Jackie Smith lives on another planet. (Things have come to a pretty pass when we've got a senior politician called Jackie anyway).
I hate to sound all Daily Mail here, but I serioulsy think National Service is just what the teens of today need. There's no respect for authority, so no discpline. This would not only sweep them off the streets but give them a good dose of social responsibility and teach them citizenship. Schools are powerless to do anything, so kids - quite literally - are getting away with murder.
When I was at school, corporal punishment existed and, although I got the cane three times, the slipper twice and the strap more times than I care to mention, it hurt and it was a deterrent. Moreover, it didn't turn me into an over-sensitive social misfit with esteem issues. I was in the wrong, and I knew it. So did my parents, who always sided with teachers. But didn't everyone's back then?
I think corporal punishment should be reinstated. Since it vanished it's all gone to Hell. We can't do or say anything anymore. No one dares say what they really think for being labelled judgmental or politically incorrect. Therefore, everyone does whatever they please and think they have a right to do so. Try telling them it's not always acceptable to do whatever you want, whenever you want and you're like to find yourself on the wrong side of the law.
Do I sound like Richard Littlejohn here? Should we believe everything we read? Whenever I see a nice teenager I'm taken aback. I'm led to believe they're very rare.
Anyhoo, something's got to be done or we're all fucked.
See you on the Sheltand Islands.
