The Prime Minister and Home Secretary are this weekend cobbling together a plan to stop the proliferation of knife attacks and killings. These measures will be announced on Monday.
So here is my prediction for a news report on Wednesday:
Newsreader:
After another four men are stabbed to death in London, are we right to worry that knife crime is becoming an epidemic?
It is the scourge of our cities, according to many observers, with each day seeming to bring a new fatal attack.
Twenty teenagers have now died violently in London since the start of the year, including some at the hands of guns and other weapons.
Prime Minister:
Er excuse me er there havent been any stabbings this week, and nor will there be.
Newsreader:
But just yesterday, outside this very building a 16 year old was stabbed and died and outside your own office in Downing Street an asian was killed by stabbing.
Prime Minister:
Er er er, no, actually, erm er, the there was an incident outside this office erm erm but I am reliably informed it was a juvenile altercation with fervour and the dispute outside my own office was inter racial conflict with dissolution of life.
Am I treating this subject too lightheartedly?
I dont think so. The point is that government solves nothing except by reclassifying offences so they make criminal statistics appear better. It is a normal trait of the labourous prattus genus who have more fraudulent, misleading circuitous verbiage than a spinning top!
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2008-07-12 @ 16:16