Exactly the point, where are the police? I know a road in Reading that I have to walk down to get to town, there is a gang on the road EVERY time that cause trouble to anyone who walk past them,
ags
What road? I'll go sort it.
Exactly the point, where are the police? I know a road in Reading that I have to walk down to get to town, there is a gang on the road EVERY time that cause trouble to anyone who walk past them,
ags
It's a myth that all of a sudden you’re more likely to be a victim of crime. There has and always will be crime, it's just now the media whip the whole country up into a frenzy where the people believe they will get knifed walking out their door or their children kidnapped by the millions of pedo's out there.
Stop being scared, live your life without pandering to all the negative media, and please stop making ill informed threads bemoaning the state of the UK. Why not move to say, Sudan?
7. Benefits cut for long term unemployed if they fail to look for jobs.
Is the one I Feel most strongly about, its really really crippling the UK I know personally at least 5 people that are on benefits (at least JSA, some on housing council tax benefit) and have ZERO intention of finding a job, infact go out of their way to avoid getting a job, all of them have paid NOTHING or very little into the government fund and take money out, there must be tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people in the UK doing this and it really mounts up.
I have no issue with benefits to people that really deserve it and want to find a job, its the people that dont want a job or chavtastic mums who have baby after baby and expect us to pick up the tab!
I agree with every single point, except the nationalization of public services. Catch22. If they are nationalized they will become extremely ineffeciant, privatised and the average working person is ripped off, and the fat cats skim the cream.
First of all, I wasn't born in UK but lived here for over 15 years now.
Some of the things happening here begger belief. Beyond belief.
Some of you might say that you can leave uk etc etc and while this holds true, this is my home.
In my own country, things would not be like this and while i accept that no where is perfect, living in uk has begun to feel like a burden.
Here are things that need changing
1. Knife crime : this is becoming like a bad nightmare. Arrest and prison.
We are no worse than many other countries, in fact better than a lot for violent crime, and certainly for gun crime, unfortunately the media like to sell papers...
2. No early parole : you do your time.
To an extent, however if people are considered still dangerous or liable to offend again they will not get it. I'd be interested to see some proper statistics about early parole and reoffending (not Daily mail statistics!).
3. Transport : what is wrong with these? Disband unions - fine trains that are delayed.
Aside from the underground, which does seem to take the **** on a regular basis with strikes, all other trains/buses aren't that bad. They can be crowded, but then that is because there are only a certain amount of trains that can be laid on and a certain amount of buses that can use that route. It's all very well just saying "fine trains that are delayed" but most of the causes are not the train companies fault, it's usually either the tracks (signals etc) or customers on other trains, however it should be improved. The problem is that improvement would cost billions, as more tracks would need to be laid as well as old tracks being pulled up and relayed, possibly along different routes. People always talk about the Japanese and French trains, and how they are always on time, however that may be something to do with the fact they essentially rebuilt their railways in a modern fashion 60 years ago as there was nothing left after the second war, we didn't quite have that "luxury"...
4. Child care : Why penalize us and pay it to the poor? We aren't rich either.
5. Finance : stop borrowing or uk will go bankrupt. Cuts have to happen.
I agree again to an extent, however there also needs to be a major shakeup with the way certain public organisations are run, such as the NHS. The problem is cuts are a political decision, and most of the public are too stupid to realise that some cuts are going to have to happen, unfortunately the parties know as soon as one of them says they will cut publi spending/services their vote proportion will plumit...
6. Youth asbos : they got trackers so track them. Moment they breach, they go to jail.
7. Benefits cut for long term unemployed if they fail to look for jobs.
I think they are?
8. police to spend more time catching burglers, rapers, thieves rather than fine motorists.
What rubbish, fining motorists is not taking police away from catching criminals, fining motorists is done either automatically (speed cameras) or by the Traffic police, who job it is to enforce road laws, not catch bruglars, just like the transport police aren't supposed to go and catch a rapist miles from the railway lines... That's another myth popetuated by the likes of The Sun and Daily Mail unfortunately.
9. Stop blaming people for mistakes. banks messed up, but how many bankers in a bank actually get big bonuses? This is nothing different from filmstars, singers, company directors, oil&gas companies.
I agree totally, unfortunately the media and politicians need a scapegoat, someone has to take the blame don't you know...
10. stop political correctness. Abolish laws to protect children. Make that law forefeit the moment the children commit serious crime.
11. If thieves are in your house, you are legally allowed to apprehend them in any way possible.
You essentially are, however killing/seriously injuring them when they are no threat to you is way over the top. I'd be interested to know if anyone has actually been sent to prison for aprehending someone in their own home/
12. Nationalize public services. Thats what its for, not to make money out of us who already pay lots and lots tax.
etc etc
The most distressing news I have read in THIS WEEK.
1. pregnant woman raped.
2. mother/daughter suicide.
3. knife murder.
4. knife murder.
5. Dinner lady fired for telling man about bullying.
etc etc.
Which you would almost certainly find in any other western nations newspapers.
TRUST ME, if someone did that to my partner, they will not live much longer.
How many of you feel safe walking the streets at night when a group of hoodies approach you?
There's the actual threat of violence and the perception of violence, unfortunately the media again have increased the perception of violence way above the actual threat. 99% of the time those "hoodies" are just teenagers/students trying to enjoy themselves with no thought of actually hurting/annoying anyone...
How many of you will NOT be worried about their childrens safety at school or somewhere else?
Nope, that's another perception which has forced children to be confined much more than they used to be, just incase they are picked up by a paedophile!!11!! (forgetting completely that around 90% of attacks are by people the child will know...). Children need to be let out more, and is one of the issues with this society at the moment, the mollycoddling of children, and actually fits under the political correctness banner that you dispise...
Why are we limited to Tories or Labor or Lib dems?
You are not, however none of the other parties are strong enough to take them on, maybe you should think about why. To inexperienced for one, policies that don't match the general publics etc...
Why won't someone, maybe you start a party, and fix these things.
People have, you have all sorts, the Greens, Monster Raving Loony Party, BNP, UKIP etc...
Because if someone did, I will vote for you.
Exactly the point, where are the police? I know a road in Reading that I have to walk down to get to town, there is a gang on the road EVERY time that cause trouble to anyone who walk past them, and I have seen police cars drive past them numerous times, why can't they simply pull over, give a nice little warning to them and ask them to move elsewhere/prove ID/question or even arrest them for causing public fear...
ags
Oh how some of you are misslead, have you looked at how much the jsa costs us, it's nothing. why do some off you always say the benefits= JSA is costing us, when infact jsa is the one which costs the government the least.
The benefits that are costing us is tax credits, child support etc.... JSA costs hardly anything compared to the others.
I would stop all forms of tax credits, no child care no child support.
Many of the evils in this country are direct consequences of New Labour's idiocracy.
9. Stop blaming people for mistakes.
Why are we limited to Tories or Labor or Lib dems?
11. If thieves are in your house, you are legally allowed to apprehend them in any way possible.
agree that you should be able to detain them or knock them out, but outright being able to kill them is not right. Having the homeowner as the judge, jury and executioner is not right and is not a punisment that fits the crime.
How many of you feel safe walking the streets at night when a group of hoodies approach you?