Like they're gonna listen to him. Prof. David Nutt, anyone...
TheFatControlleR
'But above all, he should be taught to yield to the truth, and to lay down his arms as soon as he discovers it, whether it appears in his opponents argument, or to himself in his own thoughts.' - Michel de Montaigne (on the education of children)
'Everybody is in favour of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled. But some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.' - Winston Churchill
'Live fat, die young, and leave a self-basting corpse for the burn up...' - TFC
Yes, it all sounds too sensible and as if someone has actually thought about it.
They'll never go for it.
Owen.
"Thank God I'm an atheist"!
I'm sure the police will pay as much attention to this as they have to the European Court of Human Rights, i.e. none at all!
Stop and search should be available if a police officer has reason (which need be no more than his own intuition) that he will get a result. An officer who does not get a result in at least one in a thousand searches should be deemed overzealous and lose a shift's pay for that thousand searches. An officer that gets more than 2 results in a thousand searches get's a paid afternoon off. Good officers would benefit and so would society. Poor officers would lose out and hopefully leave the service. Of course such a system would need refinement. I am already aware of its deficiencies in spite of a bottle of five quid Wolf Blass with my dinner. However I think that you will see where I am heading. Properley thought out in sobriety, this could work.
Lord Carlisle must be the least listened to man employed by this government. Why repeal it when you can be seen to be 'tough' on something or other, perhaps in this case people previously considered potential Labour voters.
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