As loyal readers know Nanny and her minions absolutely love adding new laws to our county's already overburdened statute book, based on the false notion that more laws improve the quality of life and reduce criminal behaviour.
One such avenue regularly pursued by Nanny is that of our dear old "friend" the ASBO.
Step forward Nanny's Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill, which will give local authorities the right to outlaw certain activities from designated areas.
Public Space Protection Orders (PSPOs) will create new crimes in
certain localities, and could be used to prosecute activities such as spitting
and begging.
Now all of this is all very well and dandy if it were really going to improve the quality of life etc within a designated area. However, there are a number of problems with such a zealous approach to adding to our statute book:
1 Such powers will, I guarantee, be abused by over zealous officials from our "respected" local authorities to clamp down on whatever irks them at the time.
2 Such powers will be used by local authorities as another means to milk their hapless local electorate via fines (ie it will be another "ker farking ching" tool).
3 Do we not already have numerous laws that deal with begging, street drinking, abusive behaviour and other general annoyances?
4 The rules that already exist are not enforced by the police, why should we expect any further rules to be enforced (other than as a means of milking the local population dry)?
In short the rules will not improve the quality of our lives, but will be abused by petty minded officials with axes to grind and budgets to fund.
Now all of this is all very well and dandy if it were really going to improve the quality of life etc within a designated area. However, there are a number of problems with such a zealous approach to adding to our statute book:
1 Such powers will, I guarantee, be abused by over zealous officials from our "respected" local authorities to clamp down on whatever irks them at the time.
2 Such powers will be used by local authorities as another means to milk their hapless local electorate via fines (ie it will be another "ker farking ching" tool).
3 Do we not already have numerous laws that deal with begging, street drinking, abusive behaviour and other general annoyances?
4 The rules that already exist are not enforced by the police, why should we expect any further rules to be enforced (other than as a means of milking the local population dry)?
In short the rules will not improve the quality of our lives, but will be abused by petty minded officials with axes to grind and budgets to fund.
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