I have made a list of suggestions that I think Parliament should seriously consider in response to the recent riots in our cities. We are currently far too soft and our police force have to pussyfoot around instead of getting in there and sorting out those who are hell bent on causing trouble. Some of the following could also be used as a deterrent for the drunken weekend revellers who puke, pee, brawl and fill our city centres with rubbish as well as for any future protest and demonstration that gets out of hand.
1. Anyone who has been arrested in connection with the aforesaid troubles should not expect the upstanding British public to cough up for them to have legal representation. Legal aid is a luxury they have waived their entitlement to because of their actions. Instead, the money should got towards the police wage bill.
2. If the perpetrators are under 16 they must stay at school until they can pass a minimum of 5 GCSE subjects at grade 'C' (even if it takes them the next twenty years). In order to finance this their parents will have to give up the fags and booze and get a job.
3. If they are under 16 and are able to read, write and speak properly, when they have passed the mandatory 5 GCSE's and leave school they will forfeit half their wages for the first twenty years to help re-finance the businesses and rebuild the homes they have destroyed by their actions.
4. Those above the age of 16 found guilty of any of the above crimes will automatically forego the right to any State benefits for life and will not receive a pension unless they have contributed to the pot in the way of taxes and National Insurance contributions for a minimum of forty years regardless of their current age. Those currently working will contribute half their wages for the next twenty years to the compensation kitty for the lives they have destroyed.
5. Anyone found guilty of the above crimes will automatically forfiet the right to social or council housing for life.
6. Those found guilty and given a prison sentence will be sent to 'no frills' prisons where they will be found hard, smelly work to do and not the current 5 star 'hotel' type prisons we have at the moment (these will all be changed to very basic prisons over the next 5 years).
7. Police will be given the powers to use as much force as is needed to arrest those involved in any civil disturbances in the future and any participants waive the right to to sue if they get a little bruise or bump in the process.
8. In the future, any rioter, protestor or demonstrator that injures an officer carrying out his duty to protect the public and their property, or in any way injures either a police dog or police horse will be detailed to scrub out the stables and kennels with a small nailbrush every weekend for the rest of their working lives.
9. Anyone arrested for drunk and disorderly behaviour will have to spend every weekend for the next five years cleaning out public loos with a toothbrush.
10. Those caught discarding their fast food containers or cans in public places will spend every weekend litter picking in city centres for a minimum of ten years.
You've got some great ideas there Sonia. I'd just use real bullets and call it a day.
ReplyDeleteIt would certainly be much cheaper!
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