More Government support for families and better male role models are the best ways to combat the yobs who are causing “anarchy in the UK”, David Cameron said yesterday.

 

Mr Cameron said that tough penalties alone would not tackle “yobbish behaviour”. “We are not really going to solve the crime problem unless we solve the family problem,” he said. He added that he was not convinced that the drinking age should be raised from 18 to 21.

 

His comments came after new figures revealed that police community support officers are solving just one crime every six years and a survey found that half of British people are more frightened on the streets than 10 years ago.

 

Are you afraid to leave home?

 

Is the Leader of the Opposition right that strengthening families is the best way to tackle antisocial behaviour? What can the Government do to better support parents and communities?

 

Or do punishments for yobs just need to be tougher?

 

 

Source: Daily Telegraph

 

 

More Government support for families and better male role models are the best ways to combat the yobs who are causing “anarchy in the UK”, David Cameron said yesterday.

 

Mr Cameron said that tough penalties alone would not tackle “yobbish behaviour”. “We are not really going to solve the crime problem unless we solve the family problem,” he said. He added that he was not convinced that the drinking age should be raised from 18 to 21.

 

His comments came after new figures revealed that police community support officers are solving just one crime every six years and a survey found that half of British people are more frightened on the streets than 10 years ago.

 

Are you afraid to leave home?

 

Is the Leader of the Opposition right that strengthening families is the best way to tackle antisocial behaviour? What can the Government do to better support parents and communities?

 

Or do punishments for yobs just need to be tougher?

Source: Daily Telegraph

 

It is very simplistic to blame one parent families for the problems with chavs in society it is more than that although that is obviously a factor

 

1) Too many wooly do gooding liberals in the criminal justice system resulting in sentences being an absolute joke

 

2) Human Rights legislation that seems to be stacked towards the rights of criminals instead of the rights of victims

 

3) The abolition of corporal punishment in schools

 

4) The availiability of cheap alcohol, alcohol should be increased in price significantly

 

5) The increase in latchkey kids with 2 working parents who are left to do their own thing till all hours while both parents are out working

 

6) The poor behaviour of role models like Paris Hilton, Britney, Pete Doherty

 

7) Too little police powers, the police a few years ago could take a chav into an alley and give him a clip round the ear now that can't be done

 

And no I am not too scared to go out

Edited August 26, 200717 yr by Vic Vega

what incentive is there for "young people" to be law abiding?

 

ASBOs are worn like badges of pride.

 

police can do little more than wag their finger at chavs and youngsters causing choas on street corners.

 

On a documentary the other night a police officer was caled to a supermarket where 2 14 year olds had been shoflifting false nails and make up. They blatently laughed in the policeman's face! Even when one girl's mother arrive - who was obviously mortified and furious - they continued. Even when the girl's mother took the policeman to one side and asked him to scare the living daylights out of her ... there was little he could do!!

 

"Kids" know thw system .... know their rights ..... and so are liberated and protected to do what they like.

 

Until tomorrow's citizens are raised to accept the consequences of their actions ...... anarchy will rule <_<

 

His use of phrases like "anarchy in the UK" show why David Cameron is not fit to be Prime Minister. His constant attack on the Human Rights Act merely serves to reinforce that. Every democracy in Europe is a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights (written, incidentally, by British lawyers). Every European democracy also has the equivalent of our Human Rights Act which means we can now have cases heard by British judges in a British court rather than having to go to the expense of taking action in a Strasbourg court in front of foreign judges.

His use of phrases like "anarchy in the UK" show why David Cameron is not fit to be Prime Minister. His constant attack on the Human Rights Act merely serves to reinforce that. Every democracy in Europe is a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights (written, incidentally, by British lawyers). Every European democracy also has the equivalent of our Human Rights Act which means we can now have cases heard by British judges in a British court rather than having to go to the expense of taking action in a Strasbourg court in front of foreign judges.

 

Spot on. The Human Rights Charter is just a convienient door for a lot of politicians to lay the blame at for the failure of their policies to actually be joined-up in any way, or even particularly sensible... Every other country in the EU is a signator to the Charter, so why does it seem like Britain is the only one having these sorts of problems...?

 

I'm betting Johnny Rotten is absolutely spitting fury at Cameron's imbecilic useage of one of Sex Pistol's greatest ever tracks.... :lol:

 

More Government support for families and better male role models are the best ways to combat the yobs who are causing “anarchy in the UK”, David Cameron said yesterday.

 

Mr Cameron said that tough penalties alone would not tackle “yobbish behaviour”. “We are not really going to solve the crime problem unless we solve the family problem,” he said. He added that he was not convinced that the drinking age should be raised from 18 to 21.

 

His comments came after new figures revealed that police community support officers are solving just one crime every six years and a survey found that half of British people are more frightened on the streets than 10 years ago.

 

Are you afraid to leave home?

 

Is the Leader of the Opposition right that strengthening families is the best way to tackle antisocial behaviour? What can the Government do to better support parents and communities?

 

Or do punishments for yobs just need to be tougher?

Source: Daily Telegraph

See I'm against the general view here, but I agree with David Cameron on all the above.

David seems well informed on this subject.

David Cameron wants to tackle yobbish behaviour. Does that been he's giving up on that 'Hug a Hoody' idea?

David Cameron wants to tackle yobbish behaviour. Does that been he's giving up on that 'Hug a Hoody' idea?

 

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

Well put Chapstick... He certainly does seem to be doing a bit of U-turn here...

 

Still, to play Devil's Advocate here, we criticise him, but it aint as if that bloody 'Nu Labor' lot have any clue whatsoever how the hell to tackle the problems in society, their "policies" have been an abject failure if you ask me. All they've actually done is to create more offences, and make more people into criminals who weren't before, such as Anti-War protestors...

Well Zero Tolerance wouldnt solve all the problems, but it would help. Free the police from paperwork and let them do there job's. I think some "Gene Hunt" style cops are in order to deal with the Yobs.

we are on a slippery slope towards anarchy, the increase in murders of gang members amongst the young and turf wars highlights this decline. the blame? no one thing, its a general deterioration of moral standards in society that is to blame, (but id start with thatcher...lol).

 

you wont curb this slide without an overall shift in society, less headonistic, more responsability for ones own actions, greater respect, probably a total reverse of everything that the rock n roll generations have successively embraced! lol.