On the Labour website, Balls announces that...
A thousand of the most challenging young people in England will be targeted for non-negotiable intervention as part of a drive to prevent future antisocial behaviour.
Well that sounds like good value for money doesn't it? £218m to tackle a thousand feral teenagers. Splendid idea. Let's read on and discover how Balls is going to achieve this worthy goal.
• Tough enforcement where behaviour is unacceptable or illegal;
What? you mean the law is not currently being enforced? Surpising, but we'll let that go...
• Non-negotiable support to address the underlying causes of poor behaviour;
• Better prevention to tackle problems before they become serious and entrenched, and to prevent problems arising in the first place.
Blimey...deja-vu! I seem to remember someone saying something once about being "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime"...can't think where I heard that before. But no matter, it's clear Labour are talking tough on this subject, and as a result I think we all know where this is heading, but pray continue....
The Children’s Secretary said: “It is right that our first priority has been to put in place legislation to stop antisocial behaviour in its tracks to bring respite to communities.
Now I'm confused...why is Labour only now talking about legislation as a "first priority" 10 fucking years after they came to power? And what is this remarkable new legislation that promises to banish drunken yobs from our town centres at a single stroke? Hmm...can't seem to find any mention of that. Let's continue...
The Action Plan will go further to tackle antisocial behaviour by making sure we take strong actions to tackle the underlying causes such as substance misuse and family breakdown.
Yawn....
"Recognising these problems doesn't condone bad behaviour - nor is help a soft option. In the end where young people and families don't accept help to change their behaviour then the right thing to do is to use Antisocial Behaviour Orders and Individual Support Orders."
Yawn...Ah - at last we get to the nuts and bolts of Balls' "Action Plan".
Erm...right: So basically, this "strong action" of which he speaks consists of having a finger wagged at you by some fucking useless social worker and then getting an ASBO. This, presumably, would be the same social worker who is failing to tackle the problem at the moment; the same ASBO that is now regarded as a rite of passage among Britain's thriving underclass. The same ASBO that has proven to be no fucking use whatsoever in tackling anything.
So, basically, the plan adds up to a big fat fucking zero, that's going to cost us £218m
But interesting that the flabby, limp-wristed wanker should mention family breakdown. Someone else - with slightly more credibility - had something to say about that this week.
Mr Justice Coleridge, one of the country's most senior judges, yesterday accused Gordon Brown of prioritising the abolition of plastic bags over support for families, and preciding over a Government that is "fiddling while Rome burns".
The judge, who has seen at first hand the results of Labour's assault on the family unit, continued:
"We are experiencing a period of family meltdown whose effects will be as catastrophic as the meltdown of the ice caps."
He then goes on to paint a picture which is all too familiar...
Judges are witnessing a "never-ending carnival" of human misery, and almost all of society's social ills can be traced back to the collapse in family stability, he says. Many single mothers do a good job, but thousands of children are being raised by women who have several children by several fathers, none of whom stick around.
So, according to someone who has a lifetime's first-hand experience of the subject (unlike Balls), the destruction of the family unit is at the root of the problem. And what has Labour done to protect the family unit? Fuck all, actually. Remember the fiasco of the CSA? Another Labour initiative that swallowed vast sums of our money and achieved precisely nothing.
Meanwhile, on council estates up and down the land, Britain's underclass views the act of procroation as career move, opening as it does, the door to hundreds in benefits each week and hordes of cardiganed social workers at your beck and call; free dental care; free health care; free council tax; free housing; free clothing etc. Is it any wonder that these people - who Justice Coleridge identifies as the major factor in social breakdown - are breeding like fucking rabbits?
Labour has created the problem of anti-social behaviour by incentivising irresponsible parenting. It's going to take more than an incompetent, camp fuckwit with another vacuous initiative to solve that problem, alas.
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