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The public is to be told to “stop moaning and take action” against anti-social behaviour by the Home Secretary, John Reid.
He demanded an “aggressive” publicity campaign that would directly challenge the public, using the slogan “Don’t moan – take action – it’s your street too.”
Campaigners against anti-social behaviour said the proposals could have “devastating consequences”.
In his presentation, Mr Reid called for a complex 50-point “respect” action plan to be boiled down to six “emblematic” policies aimed at curbing anti-social behaviour.
These include parenting programmes for problem families, “intervention” in the most serious cases of nightmare neighbours, “effective enforcement” by local authorities and better neighbourhood policing.
There would also be “face the people” sessions where the public could meet law and order agencies and landlords would be made to take action against problem tenants.
Do you know Emmalush I absolutely agree with your point of view on this one.
And here’s the best bit. At a confidential cabinet briefing last week John Reid called for six ”emblematic” policies to curb anti-social behaviour. WOW !!! How brave is he?????
Guess who is going to be responsible for implementing them??? LOCAL AUTHORITIES – that’s who – not your own … your very own Tony and the Home Office.
They are to be FORCED to sign up to a ”Local Area Agreement” in designated ”Respect Areas” as defined by those incompetent pillocks at the Home Office – the same ones that can’t even manages to organise a deportation in a detention centre.
So your Local Authority will be obliged to ”monitor” their progress on seven ”respect” indicators.
Notice that they won’t actually do anything for the Council Tax payers – just monitor their own progress, doubtless at some enormous cost. Bloody typical isn’t it. Issue a new initiative / policy with maximum press coverage and soundbites then get somebody else to do it and pay for it.
Yes folks yet ANOTHER failed initiative from a failed musician. Why don’t they simply have the common decency to just go. Against this lot even the Monster Raving Loony Party looks credible.
Oh and I spotted this one today Emma – it’s a real cracker. Owen is going to just love it.
Does anybody remember the wonderful New Labour mantra of ”education education education”??? Do you remember their fantastic new initiative designed to give 16 – 18 year olds an incentive to stay on in Further Education??? No ???
Well it was called ”The Connexions Card” and was implemented under contract by New Labour’s best friends….. Capita. Basically it was a reward card scheme that awarded ”loyalty points” to students to be spent on such necessities as CD’s and designer clothes etc. The idea was to bribe youngsters to turn up to lessons.
Sadly only 54,788 took up this gimmick – sorry, offer – instead of the promised 1,700,000 and the scheme was officially closed this week by Beverley Hughes the children’s minister and declared a failure. Oh dear what a shame !!!
Still some good came out of this failed initiative. Capita earned the princely sum of £66.14 MILLION and they are due another £41.48 MILLION on top of that even though the scheme has failed. Easy way to make £107 MILLION eh?
BTW New Labour supporters – just so you can compare – this amount would have provided more than 3,300 new teachers or 250,000 new laptops or alternatively replenished understocked school libraries with 10 MILLION new text books.
@forumhostpb wrote:
Oh and I spotted this one today Emma – it’s a real cracker. Owen is going to just love it.
Does anybody remember the wonderful New Labour mantra of ”education education education”??? Do you remember their fantastic new initiative designed to give 16 – 18 year olds an incentive to stay on in Further Education??? No ???
Well it was called ”The Connexions Card” and was implemented under contract by New Labour’s best friends….. Capita. Basically it was a reward card scheme that awarded ”loyalty points” to students to be spent on such necessities as CD’s and designer clothes etc. The idea was to bribe youngsters to turn up to lessons.
Sadly only 54,788 took up this gimmick – sorry, offer – instead of the promised 1,700,000 and the scheme was officially closed this week by Beverley Hughes the children’s minister and declared a failure. Oh dear what a shame !!!
Still some good came out of this failed initiative. Capita earned the princely sum of £66.14 MILLION and they are due another £41.48 MILLION on top of that even though the scheme has failed. Easy way to make £107 MILLION eh?
BTW New Labour supporters – just so you can compare – this amount would have provided more than 3,300 new teachers or 250,000 new laptops or alternatively replenished understocked school libraries with 10 MILLION new text books.
You’re spot on PB – it’s about time this sad so called government was removed – it’s all part of their European Superstate pipedream – orchestrated by the likes of the abominable Mandelson
Oh God – Mandlebum – what a ghastly old queen he is. I wonder why he is such close friends with dear Tony (the failed musician)?
I know it was an innocent typo – but I thought that ”dumbusters” was pretty funny.
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