warrenm2

Great article in the Times about how Britain is policed today.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...125150,00.html

pslewis

It says VOLUMES about the ***** who keeps getting caught - but says NOTHING about Britain today!!

Pete

richs2891

Yeah sadly that is about right!
Would like to see politicians only being able to stay in power for two terms and then have to stand down ! Feel it might be one of the ways forward !
Oh and getting rid of the current lot and getting some party that are not politically correct mad and have some good old plain common sense !

Richard

kingofturds

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Unfortunately it seems cameron is more new labour than new labour

pslewis

If they are limited to stay in power for 2 terms - 8 years - that is ridiculous as their long term view will have an eight year cut-off!!

No help to anyone that!!

Pete

pslewis

There is something wrong with a person who gets caught speeding and parking where they shouldn't again, and again ...... clearly their brains don't work too well!!??

Pete

kingofturds

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richs2891

If they are working for the good of the nation as a whole then which ever party they represent should be largely irrelevant, and who is to say that their no 2 or another member of the same party would not get voted in and continue the work ?
Or have a 2 term ( 8 year ) plan !!

Richard

pslewis

Oh I see what you are saying now ...... throw away the person with all the experience and put a newcomer in their place to make the common mistakes all over again!!??

Nah, won't work I don't think!

Pete

richs2891

Or get rid of the person making the mistakes and replace with someone else who hopefully learns from the predecessors mistakes

Richard

pslewis

Earth calling Richard, Earth calling Richard ............................

Pete

Abdabz

So this guy has been caught speeding (breaking the law), parking illegally (breaking the law), not paying congestion charges (breaking the law) and is moaning about getting caught
There is not one thing that has happened to him in the hands of the law that shouldn't. I cant understand why he is moaning

lozgti

Ignoring all of the irrelevant posts....I have no confidence whatsoever in the police catching a 'criminal' ie thief,burglar,drug dealer,rapist,murderer.

If they do actually stumble across one and get him to court I have even less confidence in him appearing before a judge who is happy to send them down,rip up a copy of the Human Rights Act in front of them and give them a kick in the nuts for good measure.

Those happy with the current state of affairs and Labour

1.May your house be burgled
2.Your car be stolen and returned minus windows needing a special oil change
3.The outside of your house graffited with a cool 'tag'
4.You be set upon by a gang of 14 year old(ugly) girls and end up worse
5.You be the first to be incarcerated as a result of a problem with your new ID card
6.You lose all your wordly goods via cashpoint skim
7.You return home to squatters

Not that crime/punishment and Human Rights gets up my nose

KiwiGTI

And what makes the law right? If there was a law enacted that required you to kill an immigrant every Friday would you blindly follow it? Laws should be challenged.

The whole point of the article was to show the huge amount of effort that goes into prosecuting individuals for petty offences, that wouldn't be offences if common sense was used and that there is no leeway.

Yet we are bombarded by the media with stories of rapists that get community service or not even prosecuted, wife beaters who can avoid jail by saying sorry etc. That the average person is made to feel more like a criminal than "real" criminals.

Like a lot of things I think this is a perhaps a very London-centric article where councils are well known for their underhand tactics. I have witnessed on a Friday night at 6:25pm (5 minutes before unrestricted parking) a couple of parking attendants drive up on their scooters to the local high street and actually run around all the calls (it would be comical in a movie) and check that the meters have not expired.

Holy Ghost

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well then, that sets a hard ceiling on the "long term view" of ******* up the country then doesn't it you ridiculous tosser lewis.

GC8

I think that his point Pete; is that politicians are self-serving and that by limiting the their term of office you might encourage them to act in the country's best interest, rather than their own. I think that you would struggle to find a politician now who, given the choice, would do some real good for the country risking/sacrificing his position; over doing something ****e and worthless that allows him to bask in the reflected glory...


Simon

Leslie

You are such a prissy person at times PSL!

Trouble is the people who keep making the mistakes just carry on making the same and new ones to go with it. They seem to have a dogma to follow which does not allow a new and more effective approach to it all.

This has become the most sleazy, corrupt and incompetent government in living memory.

In the court the average law abiding person will get hammered if he is caught out for a minor offence since he can be easily fined whereas the hardened criminal never have any apparent money or property and of course their so important human rights so they get off with a slap on the wrist since there is no longer any room in prison for them anyway. Too easy isn't it!

What a way to run a railway!!!!

Les

SJ_Skyline

The biggest criminals are those running the country