Thoughts 26 Dec 2006 08:26 pm
Respect in the UK
The UK has a Respect Tzar and the cops can give out asbos, (anti-social behaviour order) to unruley children.
Conservative leader David Cameron says, “They must have counselling, education and training.”
But Home Office minister Tony McNulty claimed Mr Cameron was using “fluffy bunny language”, lacking any substance.
“Fluffy bunny language,” only the Brits could use that phrase with a straight face.
David Cameron said crime was influenced by a growing gap between the end of childhood and the beginning of adulthood.
“We’re making childhood - the time of innocence - end earlier and earlier. We advertise products to pre-teens as if they were fully sexualised adults.
Ooooh, I see, it’s the advertisers who should be given asbos, not the sweet innocent child who just broke your window.
An official study says that Anti-social behaviour orders have become a “badge of honour” among young people.
Parents and carers of the young people given orders said an Asbo was now viewed as a “diploma” that boosted a child’s street credibility.
“Some of the friends are left out now because they are not on an Asbo,” said the mother of three young men who were all on Asbos.
God forbid that someone might want to suggest these children be disciplined at home.
Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Nick Clegg said the prime minister was “demonising” young people through the Asbo system, and what was needed was engagement.
Yes, Yes, that’s it. Ask them nicely and they’ll all put on their scout uniforms and start helping old ladies across the street.
…Bloody, big poof.
At the same time a report was issued that found these Brit brats, were the worst behaved children and young adults in Europe.
Forty areas of England and Wales are to be offered more money to tackle the problem of anti-social behaviour.
The government’s “respect tsar”, Louise Casey, said councils in the worst areas were bidding to become “respect zones”.
In return for extra funding, they would be expected to use the full range of powers available to them to combat anti-social behaviour, she added.
The Home Office is working on guidelines to help authorities deal with anti-social activities.
In March it will publish a leaflet for the public outlining their rights when faced with yobbish behaviour, and how to ask for help through official channels.
And if that doesn’t work, they’ll send in the British special forces, anti-yobbish squad.
All secondary pupils in Scotland should be given ID cards in an effort to stamp out bullying, according to a teaching union.
It believes adding a picture would stop pupils missing meals because they have been bullied into handing over cards.
The Educational Institute of Scotland said it was concerned that camera phones were being used to bully staff and pupils.
There have been reports of youngsters deliberately winding up teachers so they can secretly record angry outbursts, or taking compromising photos or video clips of classmates.
See, the Brits are even more fucked up than we are.
The only real difference, is that when they say and do stupid things, everybody thinks it’s just another Monty Python skit.