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Lee Griffin About Lee: Former students' union president and intermitent blogger since the turn of the century, who's aim is to promote objective thinking and a break from partisan politics when discussing the issues of the day. Contact him.

Cameron shows his "Labour" side on knife crime

Mon 7th Jul 2008

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So on a day where Gordon Brown states the obvious and tells us to stop wasting food, David Cameron unveils just how pointless and devoid of content the Tories are likely to be when they're in power. Mr Cameron says that anyone carrying a knife without a good reason should be jailed. No caution, just a straight to court and unless you can prove it's because you're going to the annual knife juggling fair then you're put in to jail.

Quite aside from this rubbish that knife crime is reaching "epidemic proportions", the figures show that knife crime is largely unchanged over the last decade, what is jailing every person with a knife going to achieve? Secondly how is it any better than Labour's "jail a Muslim for political capital" 42 days legislation, given that the main people being shoved unceremoniously into the slammer will be black youths?

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Touches on: Post, Deaths, Children, Yobs, False Priorities, Media, Police, Knives, Education issues, David Cameron, Gordon Brown

The MPs we need to target on 42 days.

Mon 7th Jul 2008

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It's been 2 and a half weeks since I said there was a need to stop dithering on 42 days and the liberal campaign against it. Yet unfortunately we unfortunately still have a significant air of the supposedly most liberal people in the country throwing their toys out of the pram. "It's too late", "I don't want to fight with the Tories" and more of the same are still coming out of peoples mouths, as if liberty is only important if they are the champions of it.

Lynne and people like Sunny over at Liberal Conspiracy, myself obviously included, just simply cannot sit here and let personal ego's, partisan politics and sulky petulant behaviour stand in the way of defeating this legislation. So, as if it needed any more saying, what do we need now?

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Touches on: Post, Detention without charge, Parliament, Bills, MPs

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So what the hell is going on, Labour are slumping in the polls and yet those most naturally in their shadow able to take their place (the Lib Dems) are failing to capitalise in the polls. And even though the Tories are enjoying high times so much they must think it's the 80's all over again (in more ways than one) they have failed to deliver one serious or credible attack against the government that would show them to be the true heir's to the throne. So to speak. Anyway, on with this weeks Politalks. NSFW as usual, transcript can be found if you go through to read more!