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sp1814, Well I must be missing something, nowhere in Lucy Thomas's answer can I read that there is any mention of her blaming the goverment for the way our kid's are brought up.
Gromit what an excellent link, makes for some very interesting reading, especially the reader's views. It is a pity the majority of posters on this site don't sing from the same hym sheet.
But then the whole debate was then changed to the usual sillyness of childlish comments this time started by paulos66, what a shame.
To revert back to the problem of lawlessness. As Lucy Thomas said the only way this goverment deals with a problem is to throw more money at it. This is quite true but she missed the other method they use, and that is to introduce further Laws, without the means of enforcing them.
What we need in this country is all these three, Harsher laws, Many,many more police on the streets, and then the money to pay for these extra full time police officers.
If they must use voluntary and part time poorly payed officers, then let these be desk bound to shuffle the paperwork etc. This will release more highly trained officers to patrol the streets.
Let us get back to the days when one could not walk down the street, day or night without seeing one or more police officers.