Did things just get better or worse?
So, thanks to the News of the World, I now know there is a hostel in Brighton that is approved to house child abusers. As a father living in the Brighton area with two young daughters, am I now supposed to feel reassured or more anxious? Pandering man of the people, Home Secretary John Reid, who’s turned out to be less of a lion and more of a pussycat, says, “I start from the position that information should no longer remain the exclusive preserve of officialdom”. That’s as may be, but what purpose does the release of this information serve?
As there’s no details given, no street name or rough location, I don’t even know where to take my petrol bombs and poorly spelt placard.
Posted on June 18th, 2006 at 1:52pm under New Labour, UK politics
ESSEX
Basildon
The entire town of Basildon is licenced to hold high-risk offenders? What a terrible “service”.
Islamophobia will be back in vogue by tomorrow morning….. trust me.
If no address was given, just keep your eyes open for any suspicious looking addresses …
Go for them one by one, and you are sure to hit gold…
… or something.
John Reid is a gutless thug…
The Friday Thing – Paedomania, And Other Distractions: On the steps of the court, megaphone in hand stands John Reid. ‘What do we want?’ he shouts. ‘Longer sentences to placate over-inflated public fears!’ roars the crowd. ‘When do we want……
Ah – but you’ve also got a mosque full of eeeeevil muslims in Brighton, according to the Sunday Times, and they gave the address, had a photo, the works. You could go and blow that up instead – after all, peados and muslims are pretty much the same thing, aren’t they?
So, thanks to the NOTW campaign managed to close LOADS of Paedo Hostels. Now they’ve gone, so have the kiddy-diddlers. Well done the Screws!
/sarcasm
So now that 60 or 70 child molestors have been shunted to bail hostels, slightly out of sight of the nearest school, who would you prefer should be housed in the 11 hostels instead ?
Would you prefer knife wielding mobile phone muggers or drug dealers to have access to your children instead ?
The Sweeney child rapist case, which helped to spark off this furore involved the kidnap of a pre-school infant and the use of a motor vehicle. How would moving such a predator a bit further away from a school, or even telling a local community about his presence have made any difference ?
Well you can always go after a pediatrician instead. They’re much easier to find.
You could go and blow that up instead – after all, peados and muslims are pretty much the same thing, aren’t they?
You know, Muslims are genetically similar to crabs…
…don’t forget to take your pitchfork!
PS: can someone explain why the Home Office is going to America to work out what they do with child abuse offenders? Okay, you might want to avoid Belgium (cf Marc Dutroux), but doesn’t any part of the EU have anything to learn from? Not even Sweden (cf Polly Toynbee)?
For every complex problem, there is bound to be a simple solution.
According to expert testimony, 80 per cent of child abuse actually occurs in families. Abolish families and 80 per cent of the problem can be prevented. Fortunately (?), events are going that way anyway. Over 40 per cent of babies are now born to couples who aren’t married.
That is correct, isn’t it?
I have to say I enjoy the rich irony of the yahoos who stand up and extol the virtues of the family when the institution is the hole in which crouch some of society’s most disgusting abuses. But that’s just me.
I’m not sure what you mean though, Bob B, how is a rising number of babies born outside wedlock abolishing the family? Are all those babies left in the wild to be brought up wolves or something?
Me and my partner have two children and apart from not having an expensive piece of paper formalising it all we couldn’t be a more sickeningly normal nuclear family. We’ve been together 12 years. It seems to be increasingly the case, in the orbit of my revoltingly liberal social circle at least.
Wouldn’t people who worry about the destruction of the family be better served by campaigning for the abolishment of divorce rather than hammering on about people not wanting to get married in the first place? Marriages falling apart? Force the buggers to stay together.
“I start from the position that information should no longer remain the exclusive preserve of officialdomâ€Â.
Good stuff, I shall look forward to the July 7th inquiry then.
Force the buggers to stay together. Justin, you’re not going far enough. The state should arrange marriages, using all the information it will have gathered via the National Identity Register to ensure a perfect match. Divorce would then simply wither away, apart from the initial spike as partners are re-assigned to more compatible spouses.
“It seems to be increasingly the case, in the orbit of my revoltingly liberal social circle at least.”
Same here. Bloody do-gooders, aren’t we? As Stephen Fry once said ‘80% of child abuse occurs in families, and all but one known case of incest, and that turned out not to be incest at all’.
The Moai has an excellent point there, this new spirit of Home Office openness is just begging for some FoIA requests…
Yep, talk about a hostage to fortune, that remark from Reid, Moai. I, at least, plan to use it at every possible opportunity.
I like the idea of state-sponsored arranged marriages, Ian. You could spice it up a bit by building a Saturday evening gameshow around the process. Get Dale Winton to present it.