Jacqui Smith Wonderland

So the announcement has come out that is going to save our young (and others) from the Blade. We are going to shock them by showing them knife victims. That's it pretty much. We are not going to have more random checks, less police paper work and harsher penalties. we are not going to work with, and punish where appropriate irresponsible parents.

Instead the Home Secretary really thinks that a bunch of kids desensitised to violence through video games and TV are going to be "shocked" into changing their ways. No Home Secretary they are not they will see it as "getting away with it".

Lord Allesley has been a victim of knife crime and knows how pathetic the legal system was in dealing with it. A charge of possession of a bladed instrument against a man who was obviously attempting to kill Lord Allesley. Only one police interview and accept a plea on a minor infringement, the path of least resistance, prosecution target meeting and least paperwork.

Oh but victims get their say in this new age, they get to stand before the judge and tell how it was terrifying, how it has effected them....Oh not if you ring the police 8 weeks later only to be told the case has been to court, a guilty plea put in and now its all over.

What is the point of more legislation, more empty announcements and more fantasy politics. We need proper policy deployment, real policing less human rights PC rubbish. It is time the people of Britain regained their great country from the social pariahs. This government does not see that. It genuinely believes rewarding antisocial scum will change their behaviour, not reinforce it.

Time for change.

Lord Allesley