Where have we gone wrong in the UK?

[elvismiggell]

During the Great Depression didn't the Government create jobs in America? Does anyone know whether it was actually considered a success?

Obviously autobahn building in Germany went well for a while... didn't end too well though...

[gazza57]

There is a simple solution to this and that is to cut there benefits. I would set it up like this. For the first year of unemployment I would give good benefit money. But after that I would start to decrease until you get nothing. The benefit system has to be reformed in this country.

There are way too many individuals out there that have left school with no qualifications and expect to walk into a highly paid job.

This has been tried before bricam, the trouble is with this approach is that there are significant numbers of layabouts who will resort to theft in order to fund their lifestyle rather than a week's work.
Our prisons are already full and judges are under pressure not to jail offenders as a result.
The sentencing policies are over lenient and there remains no deterrent because of this.
The PC brigade are far more concerned with the human rights of criminals than those of their victims, they are always concerned about prison overcrowding, prison sanitation, prison education, human rights of prisoners and so on, nobody is saying that prisoners should be maltreated but I do not see why their rights should be considered before those in the outside world.
Many law abiding people in this country work long hours for low wages and they should be considered before criminals.
I think we should build more prisons and jail repeat offenders who seem unable to live in an environment with the rest of us without thieving from society.
I am not concerned with their rehabilitation, the world does not owe them a living, nor does it choose a path of crime, they do this and consequently should face the consequences. Jailing them should be an action to primarily segregate them from law abiding people, rehabilitation should be a secondary aim only undertaken if funds permit.
Prison should be a place which is hard without maltreatment and should be an experience which prisoners choose to avoid in the future.
Sadly that cannot be said of our prisons presently.
Gazza57

[Combover]

I am not concerned with their rehabilitation, the world does not owe them a living, nor does it choose a path of crime, they do this and consequently should face the consequences. Jailing them should be an action to primarily segregate them from law abiding people, rehabilitation should be a secondary aim only undertaken if funds permit.

Couldn't agree more

[tdigolf]

we need to get gordon brown out asap..

[Crasher]

Not so fast, I don’t want him out just yet. I don’t want a new Tory government to come in when the economy is on its knees, we need to give it another year to let things start to improve and then take over.

[bricam1]

Are you saying you want the Labour goverment to start to turn things round and then for the Tories to come in and steal the glory

[Mini Mark]

Are you saying you want the Labour goverment to start to turn things round and then for the Tories to come in and steal the glory

You mean like lbour did when they casme to power

[Crasher]

Yes and my thoughts exactly-if they can do it why not the Tories? John Major handed Blair a gift of an economy, we even had gold in the bank, and look what they did with it, ruined and down the toilet in ten years!

[Mini Mark]

Yes and my thoughts exactly-if they can do it why not the Tories? John Major handed Blair a gift of an economy, we even had gold in the bank, and look what they did with it, ruined and down the toilet in ten years!

I wouldn't envy anyone taking over now they'd have the worst job ever

[tdigolf]

then wont he try and take all the glory of getting us out of it? i dont think he has a chance in the next election every one can see what hes like.. ment to be for the working man thats all he does tax the working man