As Britain begins to weigh the costs of the rioting of recent days and ponder measures to prevent a recurrence, the government of Prime Minister David Cameron put forward on Friday a new way of punishing the looters and vandals who rampaged through many of the country’s cities and towns: kick them and their families out of their government-subsidized homes.
NYT
1/6 of Britons live in such housing.
This is a cool idea.
Let’s punish the families of every one who breaks a law/ voted against us/ or riots in the streets.
That ought to scare a lot of people into submission, right?
But sorry, Davy, lots of petty (and not so petty) tyrants have had the idea of punishing families before/ so you get no kudos at all on the originality thing.
Asked whether that would render them homeless, he replied, “They should have thought of that before they started burgling.”
– NYT
But Davy-boy, maybe you shouldn’t have offshored their jobs, and introduced austerity.
By the way, the Brit courts are convicting ‘rioters’ 24 hours a day. Now that’s efficient ‘justice’.
Full disclaimer: my grandfather was a devout Tottenham Hotspurs fan from Enfield. Perhaps I should be afraid in some roundabout way? Eviction or incarceration because of familial football fandom, from a downtrodden place?