Jack Straw ? A Cynical Ploy?
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 9:25 pm
Jack Straw, speaking at the ?Noo-Labour? Conference, said today that decent citizens should be able to 'have a go' at criminals without fear of prosecution - Unlike at present, where if you are rude to a scumbag while he assaults you, burgles your house, or takes your mobile phone off you at knifepoint, you are liable to get five years in clink, while the afor mentioned nere-do-well is sent on a Safari to recuperate and get over the intense trauma of your recklessly administered tong lashing.
So does this now mean that decent citizens will have the green light to administer thoroughly deserved kickings to anti-social chavs, pikeys, 'gang members' and the like? Is Jack trying to pass himself of as ?a man of the people? with his tales of non-poncy direct action? Does this speech signal a new government offensive on the brainless, lowlife, street scum that blights 21st Britain - or is it just a cynical electioneering ploy, to be swept under the carpet after the next Nu-Lab victory? After all, in the last decade there have been umpteen private members bills to give more leeway to 'have a go heroes?, but the government has put the kybosh on 'em all.
What does the panel think? Are you gleefully rubbing your hands at the thought of punching a pikey or chinning a chav?
Officer Dibble
So does this now mean that decent citizens will have the green light to administer thoroughly deserved kickings to anti-social chavs, pikeys, 'gang members' and the like? Is Jack trying to pass himself of as ?a man of the people? with his tales of non-poncy direct action? Does this speech signal a new government offensive on the brainless, lowlife, street scum that blights 21st Britain - or is it just a cynical electioneering ploy, to be swept under the carpet after the next Nu-Lab victory? After all, in the last decade there have been umpteen private members bills to give more leeway to 'have a go heroes?, but the government has put the kybosh on 'em all.
What does the panel think? Are you gleefully rubbing your hands at the thought of punching a pikey or chinning a chav?
Officer Dibble