An Interview With Home Secretary Jacqui Smith
“THESE are terrifying times to be a parent,” says Julie McCaffrey, the Mirror’s woman with her ear pressed to the street and pulling a knife from a stabbed kebab.
“There are worries about whether your child is binge-drinking or having under-age sex – and then there is even greater fear that they might end op the innocent victim of a violent knife crime.”
Given the choices on offer, most parents would opt for A) binge drinking over B) under-age sex over C) being stabbed, although if their children were the stabber rather then the stabee, the list may be C, A, B.
And C might not be around for long because stay-at-home Jacqui Smith is making it her “personal mission” to put an end to knife crime. Jacqui Smith is the new-Labour rag-and-bone man walking the streets asking parents to bring out their knives for blunting.
Before that Jacqui will get tough on knifers by unveiling a £1million advertising campaign to tell knifers that it is wrong and remind knifees that it bloody well hurts.
“The day I’m not moved by any young person – or any person – being killed is probably the day when I’m not qualified to do the job any more,” says Jacqui.
Some would say she’s not qualified to do the job of upholding the law in the first place, on account of her dope-smoking past; and smoking cannabis is something Jacqui thinks is very illegal and worthy of incarceration.
“We have to be careful not to fall into a trap of thinking all young kids are bad,” says Jacqui, and that’s bad, as in evil, and not baaad as in Michael Jackson bad, which might on further scrutiny be worse then being stabbed in the throat…
Posted: 29th, May 2008 | In: Labour Party, Politicians, Tabloids Comments (6) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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October 8th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Zein
Our Jacqui is having too much fun with trying to sell her ID cards to ‘yoof’ to stop to think about minor details like the fact that her ideas always seem to make bad worse…
October 8th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
i agree that this is caused by lack of discipline but i do not think that national service would be a good way to go about things, i mean putting weapons in the hands of these idiots that are doing this isnt a good way of solving this. and as for the adverts i think petermac is right, these people are driven by the power that this object gives them, the power of life and death, seeing how victims have been affected will just make them think that this is what they can do to people and will make them go and do it.
May 30th, 2008 at 8:16 am
The adverts are priceless. They are of the Victims.
How is that supposed to make the agressors feel bad ? It will just encourage them.
May 29th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Atrocious language LP, you should be ashamed of yourself.
But regarding your post:-
Too fucking right mate!
I’m not sure about the national service bit; I just don’t think there’s the political of social will to reintroduce it in this day and age. There’d be an unholy stink from tossers like Shami Chakrabati and the rest of the deluded protectors of human rights, but it’s about time that someone pushed their perverted sense of morals and ethics until they began to crack at the edges.
Things are too heavily biased in favour of the offender (be they convicted or otherwise), and the current crop of clueless soundbite-hungry bastards in both government and opposition are unwilling to face the facts.
My greatest fear however, is that rudderless goverment will force us into the arms of right-wing thugs such as the BNP.
Rocks and hard places? Maybe… but there is still time to get out of being stuck between them, if only someone would face reality, and give the PC establishment the rigid digit.
May 29th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
This woman should be fired immediately. She hasn’t got a bloody clue. I’ve seen the adverts. It’s no different to watching cops on camera. Just the thign that almost intices the scum to knife in the first place. Always the same with our Government. Rather than address the real issues they sweep it all under the carpet. IF the kids of today have no respect for life then it’s pretty almsot certain it’s down to the parents unless all of the kids are totally mental and deranged. If you want to know what’s going to be one the the best things for this country to start sorting it out would be national service. Whether people liek it or not the roots of the problems need to be sorted and the root of the problem is repsect ie, there isn’t any. Discipline - i.e. there isn’t any. Goals and ambitons i.e. they have none. Get the kids into national service immediately. get them to feel what it’s like to be brought down to earth by a decent para regiment sargent. They’ll soon start to know what’s right and wrong and if they don’t comply then they should dstay in there until they do. if the governement want to be tough on crime then bloody well be tough on crime. Stop namby pambying with stupid videos and adverts that dont’ do anything to solve the issues. This country makes me weep sometimes. I’ve said it before and i’ll say it agian - we’re well and truly fucked.
Sorry about the language.
May 29th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Why do these campaigns cost so much? does it make any difference to the end result? Just jail a few of the offenders for life instead of ‘understanding’ them, that’ll stop it