Re: More police powers proposed


"NeedforSwede2" <carl.robson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:MPG.1da75ddbaf607a6298b43a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In article <1128085371.284696.271000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
>> "I don't think that the traditional law can give law-abiding people
>> adequate protection. We are trying to fight 21st-century crime -
>> antisocial behaviour, drug-dealing, binge drinking, organised crime -
>> with 19th-century methods as if we still lived in the time of Dickens,"
>> Mr Blair said in his Labour conference speech.
>>
>>
> So footpads, opium dens, gin parlours, street corner tarts, smugglers
> and those selling the services of child prostitutes didn't exist in
> Victorian england.

The government can very easily busy itself tinkering with the criminal law
as if crime was the most important problem we face. It gives the appearance
of being competent and in control - banana republics do much the same.
Meanwhile, Labour plan to sell off our nuclear industry to the Americans, so
that in the future we can expect more Three Mile Island disasters and even
less control over our nuclear deterrent, and all to balance the account
books. http://www.guardian.co.uk/nuclear/article/0,2763,1581783,00.html

I know it's very old fashioned, but I reckon state control of our railways,
nuclear industry and NHS ought to be better value than handing them over to
private enterprise, and if the Labour Party is no longer interested in
public ownership I think they have betrayed their trust.


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