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Jobless teenagers should be sent on ‘national service’, says Britain’s new knife crime tsar. [...]
In an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, Mr Hitchcock said: ‘Most kids are not beyond the pale. Most kids are decent young people. We have let them down. Now it’s time to give them the hope they deserve.’
A key part of his action plan is the non-military version of national service. Youngsters who did not have jobs or college places would be paid to help others in the community, including the elderly and disabled, or to work on overseas aid programmes.
Think of all the possibilities of who can be ordered into benefit from ‘national service.’ I certainly would feel quite comfortable with a gangbanger, failed-by-society youth getting paid to take my elderly parents to doctor’s appointments. You?
Comment by Dan Collins on 7/13 @ 10:16 pm #
As a Person of Irish Derivation, I denounce that “beyond the pale” crack.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 7/13 @ 10:28 pm #
What could possibly go wrong?
Comment by SteveG on 7/13 @ 10:29 pm #
leave the plumber out of this
Comment by McGehee on 7/13 @ 10:31 pm #
When I see “knife crime czar” I think, “Those hoods wouldn’t last five seconds in Atlanta.”
Then I look again and realize he’s a government official.
And then I think, “Two seconds. Three at the outside.”
Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 7/13 @ 10:34 pm #
- Ok, Im view of the Obamessiah’s last “great oratory”, I have to ask, whom is copying whom here, him the brits, or they him.
- I question the timing.
- And Dan, the Pome’s have always been jealous of the Pale, beyond yonder channel.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 7/13 @ 10:36 pm #
Can fresh fruit and pointed stick Czars be far behind?
Comment by happyfeet on 7/13 @ 10:38 pm #
What’s with that terrifying picture?
But in the spirit of Darleen’s comment, I really liked this part…
So you’re stabbed and in the hospital and then they use you for show and tell. Silly little island. Can we celebrate July 4th again this week?
Comment by lee on 7/13 @ 10:46 pm #
If Jeff goes to Britain, they will make him keep his hands in his pockets. Or maybe wear a beach ball on each hand.
Deadly weapons and all that, don’t you know.
Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 7/13 @ 10:47 pm #
- feets, this is the Pome’s copying the old idea run in NJ, back some years ago called the “scared straight” program, where the local prison officials were envagled into letting their toughest guards do a slammer show and tell to groups of juvies from the local detention home.
- I remember one memorable scene from the video, where a 300 pound monster of a turnkey stood over a pudgy “bully girl”, an “Emo”, made up in full Goth regalia, asking her to please please open her mouth and wise off to him so he could “bite your fucking nose off bitch”.
- I think they would have been more honest to call the experience “scared shitless”, judging from the looks on the faces of the kids.
Comment by happyfeet on 7/13 @ 10:58 pm #
I remember that. They should bring that back as a reality tv show. Soon as you say that though someone will tell you they already did or it’s coming out next season.
Comment by psycho... on 7/13 @ 11:00 pm #
GIMME YO SHOES!
Comment by Mikey NTH on 7/13 @ 11:50 pm #
I am certain that there is much seaweed that needs to be cleared off the beach in the Shetlands; or perhaps the Faeroes.
Immagination, people.
Comment by Noah D on 7/14 @ 12:12 am #
Knife…crime…tsar?
The country that’s on those islands, you know – where England used to be – what’s it called nowadays?
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 7/14 @ 1:14 am #
I am certain that there is much seaweed that needs to be cleared off the beach in the Shetlands; or perhaps the Faeroes.
Someone really needs to maintain possession of Rockall to keep the Irish, Danes, and Icelanders off.
Comment by JuliaM on 7/14 @ 1:42 am #
happyfeet: “I remember that. They should bring that back as a reality tv show.”
Oh, it’s on the cards
Comment by JuliaM on 7/14 @ 1:43 am #
But being England, it’s only a fake prison. The real deal would undoubtedly adversely affect someone’s human rights…
Comment by DoDoGuRu on 7/14 @ 3:16 am #
Youngsters who did not have jobs or college places would be paid to help others in the community, including the elderly and disabled, or to work on overseas aid programmes.
At least the “volunteers” are getting paid in the British scenario.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 7/14 @ 4:09 am #
Beach balls can be deadly, you know.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 7/14 @ 5:10 am #
Did you know you can legally buy a Swiss Army pocket knife here in good old Blighty, but if a copper stops you and finds it on your person, and you don’t have a pressing reason for having it on your person, you will be done for possession of an offensive weapon? We are done, folks, stick a fork in us.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 7/14 @ 5:54 am #
Link here
Comment by Rob Crawford on 7/14 @ 6:25 am #
Good Lord. A co-worker of mine has a little pocket knife on his key chain. It’s been a God-send more than a few times; it’s hard to believe that in “civilized” Britain that would be a crime.
Comment by ccs on 7/14 @ 6:42 am #
Comment by Silver Whistle on 7/14 @ 7:07 am #
Yes, that would be stalking of ungulates, not celebrities.
Comment by mojo on 7/14 @ 8:21 am #
Knife crime tsar?
Oy gevalt…
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 7/14 @ 8:36 am #
Silver Whistle, have you ever considered emigrating? From everything I’ve seen you’d be welcome here, and I think you would probably enjoy it. We like non-moonbat British people!
Comment by Sdferr on 7/14 @ 8:41 am #
Next comes “Ass wipe Czar”. The Motto: It’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it.
Comment by Dread Cthulhu on 7/14 @ 8:44 am #
Take a good long look, folks… and think on the fact that Britain is usually the most sensible of EU nations, leastwise west of the former Eastern Bloc nations.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 7/14 @ 8:44 am #
SBP,
That’s the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me. Except my wife, when she said “I’m leaving!”
When I retire in 10 years, I will sell up my little hovel here in Argyll, and sure as eggs is eggs, you’ll be shooing me off your front porch.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 7/14 @ 8:50 am #
Hey, we have a pull-out bed in the pantry.
Assuming Obama doesn’t get elected, in which case our house will probably be “redistributed” to someone else, and the wife and I will have “volunteered” to live in a tent in North Dakota for reeducation purposes.
Comment by MarkD on 7/14 @ 9:08 am #
Hmm, I wonder if opening a box sealed with that reinforced packing tape qualifies. Maybe they could go to a concealed carry permit system.
Sorry, but when I continually read stories about how the victims of crimes are prosecuted for defending themselves, I am amazed. Don’t they have jury trials? What sort of moron would ever vote to convict anyone? Or is the death penalty reserved for the innocent?
Comment by Silver Whistle on 7/14 @ 9:10 am #
SBP,
I take it from that you are too old for the Sturmjugend O!
Comment by Dread Cthulhu on 7/14 @ 9:17 am #
MarkD: “Sorry, but when I continually read stories about how the victims of crimes are prosecuted for defending themselves, I am amazed. Don’t they have jury trials? What sort of moron would ever vote to convict anyone? Or is the death penalty reserved for the innocent?”
Hell, Mark, they pay compensation to criminals who get injured “on the job.”
Comment by MarkD on 7/14 @ 9:46 am #
Is it time to reintroduce civilization?
Comment by TheGeezer on 7/14 @ 9:52 am #
Pure A Clockwork Orange.
Comment by Smirky McChimp on 7/14 @ 10:18 am #
That novel becomes more prescient with each passing year.
Comment by Urainium238 on 7/14 @ 10:37 am #
I think they need to send some of those youths to work in an overseas programme as well. It’s called “deportation.”
Comment by Mars vs Hollywood on 7/14 @ 2:35 pm #
Sorry, I know this keeps being brought up, but…
“Knife Crime Czar”??
Comment by McGehee on 7/14 @ 3:07 pm #
A knife crime czar is undoubtedly someone who knows what (ahem) knife crimes are.