PM's plan to beat gun crime

[threaded]

Tony Blair is set to announce measures aimed at tackling the wave of gun crime sweeping British cities.

As his meddling tends to make things much worse I guess it's time for you all to go out and buy bullet-proof vests!

[messiah]

I'm living in central london at the moment and the rule of thumb is stick to the main roads - it sounds like the advice that the old fogey in film "American Werewolf In London" gave .. but it is damned sure advice.

[Buffoon]

I live in Central London too. In nearly fifty years one piece of advice has kept me out of trouble: don't go south of the water after dark. Not that the rest of London is crime free, it that most of the trouble is in a few parts and most of those parts are south of the Thames.

[_V_]

Tough on crime tough on the causes of crime.
Education, education, education.
"things, can only get better, only get better, ..."
Cool Britannia.

Whatever happened to Blairs vision of a Great New Britain under New Labour?

Perhaps it was all bulltulip afterall.

[Troll]

err...

If you fill a country with Third Worlders, why is anyone remotely suprised when it becomes like the third world?

[ChimpMaster]

Labour's way to beat gun crime - tax it. Or rather tax it, hope nobody notices you've taxed it, and hope that it continues increases so that you get increasingly more tax revenue from it.

[Buffoon]

Labour's way to beat gun crime - tax it. Or rather tax it, hope nobody notices you've taxed it, and hope that it continues increases so that you get increasingly more tax revenue from it.

"Everybody's DNA, iris scan, fingerprints on the police database, ID Cards, subdermal RFID implants, and, of course, more taxes would solve everything"
- Tony Blair / Gordon Brown

[Francko]

I live in Central London too. In nearly fifty years one piece of advice has kept me out of trouble: don't go south of the water after dark. Not that the rest of London is crime free, it that most of the trouble is in a few parts and most of those parts are south of the Thames.

It doesn't look so, according to this source.

http://www.met.police.uk/crimefigures/

[thunderlizard]

http://www.met.police.uk/crimefigures/

1,861 thefts per 1000 population last year in my ward! Aren't we a light-fingered local community!