Dear All
After ten years of abject failure of the Labour Scottish Executive to tackle knife crime, the Labour Party wants the SNP Government to sort out their mistakes.
They will do that anyway as a matter of course; the SNP are a public service party.
Labour MSP leader Iain Gray was in Greenock to campaign on knife crime which he says is "right at the top of the agenda" for ordinary people.
Along with everything else like unemployment, education and health, all of which, like crime are Labour failures!
Iain Gray said;
"The SNP government and Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill have not done enough with their complacent, soft-touch approach. That is why Labour is calling for mandatory sentences for anyone caught using or carrying a knife."
Why didn’t Labour do that when they controlled the last Scottish Executive?
Why haven’t the Labour Party brought forward a bill since the SNP became the Executive to address this issue?
Anyway; I thought Iain Gray was just whingeing about the SNP, now it’s the judges as well, everyone is wrong but Labour!
It should be the province of the judge in court to decide the correct sentence for a crime not politicians.
Duncan McNeil, Labour MSP for Inverclyde who isn’t one of life’s great thinkers has also got involved since Iain Gray was campaigning in his area.
Not having heard anything from McNeil in a considerable time; I had forgotten he existed and was still at the Scottish Parliament.
Anyone who has taken the time to read Duncan McNeil’s blog knows that he is an utter clown and a loud mouth git.
Read his blog and ‘report to the people’.
He singlehandedly puts back the cause of working class people every time he speaks.
A SNP Government spokeswoman said tougher action than ever before has been taken on knife crime.
She added;
"We've seen jail terms for knife carrying have increase by a third, while the Justice Secretary has made clear that those who use a knife should expect to go to jail."
It is only now that the Labour Party is out of power that they seem to want to take up the issues of ordinary people, too little too late!
Finally; as a victim of knife crime, the wounds heal but the mental scars never leave you.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
After ten years of abject failure of the Labour Scottish Executive to tackle knife crime, the Labour Party wants the SNP Government to sort out their mistakes.
They will do that anyway as a matter of course; the SNP are a public service party.
Labour MSP leader Iain Gray was in Greenock to campaign on knife crime which he says is "right at the top of the agenda" for ordinary people.
Along with everything else like unemployment, education and health, all of which, like crime are Labour failures!
Iain Gray said;
"The SNP government and Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill have not done enough with their complacent, soft-touch approach. That is why Labour is calling for mandatory sentences for anyone caught using or carrying a knife."
Why didn’t Labour do that when they controlled the last Scottish Executive?
Why haven’t the Labour Party brought forward a bill since the SNP became the Executive to address this issue?
Anyway; I thought Iain Gray was just whingeing about the SNP, now it’s the judges as well, everyone is wrong but Labour!
It should be the province of the judge in court to decide the correct sentence for a crime not politicians.
Duncan McNeil, Labour MSP for Inverclyde who isn’t one of life’s great thinkers has also got involved since Iain Gray was campaigning in his area.
Not having heard anything from McNeil in a considerable time; I had forgotten he existed and was still at the Scottish Parliament.
Anyone who has taken the time to read Duncan McNeil’s blog knows that he is an utter clown and a loud mouth git.
Read his blog and ‘report to the people’.
He singlehandedly puts back the cause of working class people every time he speaks.
A SNP Government spokeswoman said tougher action than ever before has been taken on knife crime.
She added;
"We've seen jail terms for knife carrying have increase by a third, while the Justice Secretary has made clear that those who use a knife should expect to go to jail."
It is only now that the Labour Party is out of power that they seem to want to take up the issues of ordinary people, too little too late!
Finally; as a victim of knife crime, the wounds heal but the mental scars never leave you.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
GEORGE
ReplyDeleteIt is commendable that knife crime is being looked at although it should have been done years ago.
the labour party are jumping on the band waggon where high profile personalities like prince charles seb coe and alex salmond are championing a more positive image of young people in the national press.
There are so few opportunities for young people to get thier vioces heard in the main stream media, and to address the overwhelmingly negative stories about young chavvie, binge drinking, knife wielding, teenage parents that so often appear. Young people make so many amazing contributions to the world, through volunteering, charity work and community activities, but unfortunatley this kind of stories dont sell papers.
Iain Gray is obviously aware of the crime rate in Inverclyde area and is looking to make a political brownie points, anything to get his name in the papers and deflect from the critisim that labour are currently experiencing in the economy, iraq, afganastan,expense scandals , weak leadership and party ripping itself apart internaly.
Perhaps he should look at the labour policies that led to vast unemployment and social depravation
experienced in port glasgow and greenock due to labour policies over the last years.
Dear Anon
ReplyDeleteI have to say that I agree that Iain Gray is trying to raise his profile.
He really is not making an impression at all.
It's like he wants to be leader but doesn't want to do the work of a leader.
I can't see him looking at Labour policies of failure because these people can't admit mistakes.
As for volunteering, I am all for young people helping out the community but by way of thank you, we should return the gesture in real terms.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University