Zak64

Jacqui Smith today unveiled a new strategy in the 'War On Drugs'.

The Press Association: Plan to cut drug addicts' benefits

This time we are going to see addicts lose their benefits if they do not get clean. Well, that should work! After all every other Government initiative to tackle drug use/abuse has been a resounding success! It does not seem to have occured to Ms Smith that an addict with no income will need to commit even more crime in order to live AND feed their habit! Thus we will have even more drug fuelled aquisitive crime on our streets. But hey! The headline writers for the Daily Mail should be happy for a day or two!

This masterstroke of Governmental thinking has a ten year timeline. (At least Stalin had the decency to stick to 'Glorious Five Year Plans'!) So in otherwords it will be quietly forgotten about in eighteen months or so. There is precedent for this; anyone remember the foreign prisoner scandal and the special squad that was formed to round up all the ex-cons who should have been deported? That was quietly disbanded after about six weeks. Also Jacqui Smith will probably have moved onto another cushy political job by then (Brussels anyone?) so it's inevitable failure will not get laid at her door.

I remember the bright glorious morning of 1997 when the newly elected Saint Tony of Blair promised us a 'Drug Tsar' who was going to rid our society of the scourge of drugs. Does anyone remember what happened to him? Or the drugs he was so bravely going to rid us of?

Dealers will also lose their assets before any conviction in the courts! Well, we'll see what the 'Yuman Rights' lawyers have to say about that! Dosen't clause 2 of the Yuman Rights Act say something like "No person shall be unlawfully deprived of the peacefull enjoyment of their possessions"?

Now I don't have crystal balls, but I reckon this might just be another government by headline style effort that will end in ignoble failure!

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Vortex

I'd like to see this woman deal with the alcohol abuse in the Houses of Parliament. Not only are we paying them to sup away our hard earned taxes, the bar tariff is heavily subsidized.

Bunch of soaks the lot of them!

blueblood1920

We need to stop the source and that the dealers, have the lot of them swinging from the lamp posts.

Vortex

Absolutely. There is a well known drug dealer on the estate where I live (not a sink estate by the way, but an average English estate) who seems immune from arrest. It's an appalling situation, but one beyond the residents control. This man has some most unpleasant associates who would I'm sure make anyone who tried to do anything about it themselves an offer they couldn't refuse.

Drug abuse is out of control in Britain as is binge drinking. The whole liberal consensus takes the blame for the former while the government has exacerbated the latter.

I believe in capital punishment for murder and also for drug pushers.

Zak64

The head of the Hydra. OK, arrest and imprison him, there will be another dealer operating on the estate within a week or two. It's called supply and demand.

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The Bear

Forget "benefits" for adicts, jail them and make crime committed by addicts carry a further penalty for being drug related.

Or make all drugs legally available and let nature run its inevitable course. I prefer the latter. Destroys the market, prices fall to very low levels, the gene pool gets cleaned as the adicts die out. Works for me as a solution..

rjt

I certainly agree reference penaltys for addicts who comit crimes.

I do not agree with your comments about legalistation which seem to have a touch of ethnic style cleansing about them.

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The Bear

Not ethnic cleansing (though there are times that has its place) but social and genetic cleansing. If there IS an "adict gene" then let's allow nature to mend the defect in the genome.

Zak64

Bingo! Destroys the market! After all it is the market and it's huge profits that is driving all of this. That and the fact that it seems to part of human nature to get high.

Personally I suggest a licensing and registration system, so if you are caught handling/selling drugs without a licence you are in big trouble. Get the profits for gangsters out of the system, and let the addicts get stuff from the chemists on a licence untill such a time as they want help quitting. Works for me to!

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kernow

Absolutely! Brown and come to that all politicians, have learnt this from the "Master" Blair! They've realised that to govern all you have to do is bombard the mug punters with eye catching headlines and they'll believe you! Of course these "new" laws are never implemented because there is no need to, within a fortnight they're forgotten. Nobody ever says, "what happened to such and such a law"!