Let's demonise the parents

So the Home Secretary, the delightful Jacqui Smith (Adolf to her friends) wants to criminalise the parents of young people who dare to drink alcohol in public. What a stupid cow.

Apparently the proposals include handing police tougher powers to disperse "gangs" of youngsters congregating in public. I'm sure those powers would never be used to stop legitimate protests or gatherings? Ministers then urge greater take-up of existing policies to confiscate alcohol and disperse groups of people.

Parents who don't get their children to "change their ways" will be subject to state interference

Adolf : "Parents must play their role. I want to see greater use of parenting orders and parenting contracts and anti-social behaviour orders when young people are caught persistently drinking in public. If parents and children need to meet a trained worker to get them back on the right track then so be it."

So parents, who aren't allowed to discipline their kids now, will be held to account for the actions of 15,16,17 year olds when they are out. That's going to work isn't it! Twat.

And the taxpayer will be funding the bill for all these trained workers of course. No. No more tax funded social engineers thank you.

Alcohol is not the problem here, it is the abuse of the substance by undisciplined idiots who go on to cause damage/theft/assualt etc. So how about, stop having the police fill in forms to deal with ethnic diversity, equality, quotas and targets, and put them on the street on a Saturday night with instructions to catch people who actually commit crime - or, radically, perhaps they should talk to people and identify the youngsters who are getting too boisterous and suggest to them that they've had enough - prevention etc.

Simply demonising kids and parents for drinking will achieve nothing except soundbites for the radio and TV.