Re: OT - Banning booze on public transport

On 30 Oct 2005 17:28:18 GMT, Marcus Houlden <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 16:56:59 +0000, Roland Perry <roland@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote the following to uk.media.tv.misc:
>
>> In message <4364DA45.7C84137A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, at 14:32:21 on
>> Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Johannes <johs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> remarked:
>>>This is part of the 'Respect Agenda'. There are also plans to confiscate
>>>homes of the parents of misbehaving children.
>>
>> Confiscate their homes, so the family has to live in B&B at public
>> expense. They re-offend, so confiscate their B&B. Is it useful that the
>> children are then sleeping rough?
>
>Probably beyond the govt to find out why the kids are misbehaving in the
>first place and deal with *that* instead. Whatever happened to being tough
>on the causes of crime anyway?

Why is it always the governments job? It's the bloody parents fault,
nobody else.

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