Life in Blair & Brown's New Cool Britannia.

Back in 1997 they said "Things can only get better" when Labour came into power. So lets have a look at how things are in Cool Britannia.

They said "Tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime", now we have the shocking failure of Blunketts bobbies, the police community support officers.

Yet more pointless jobsworths. Shocking figures today cast doubts on the effectiveness of police community support officers.

They show that, on average, each one solves a crime every six years.

And they hand out fines for anti- social behaviour, public disorder or motoring offences at a rate of one every four months.

In several areas the teams, dubbed Blunkett's Bobbies after the home secretary who created them, failed to detect a single crime or write a solitary fixed penalty notice over the past year....

Then we have the rise in crime here in the UK, knife crime up and yet we get told that its just the fear of crime.

Knife attacks on the rise.

Robberies at knifepoint have more than doubled in the last two years to an alarming 175 a day, a study revealed.

The revelation follows a weekend of knife violence, including the death of 16-year- old GCSE student Andrew Holland and two fatal stabbings in London.

A study compiled from Government figures showed the number of street robberies involving blades rose from 25,500 in 2005 to 64,000 in the year to April 2007.

This means there were 175 robberies at knifepoint in England and Wales every day last year - up from 110 the year before and 69 in 2004-5...

And of course even when a criminal is caught and jailed they can expect to get out after about 10 years(thats what we jokingly refer to as a life sentence) and we can not deport them to another nation: The killer who knifed headmaster Philip Lawrence to death is expected to win his appeal to stay in Britain because deporting him would breach his human rights, according to a Home Office official. The Asylum and Immigration Tribunal will rule this week that Italian-born Learco Chindamo cannot be deported as this would deprive him of his right to family life, the official said.

Chindamo, now 26, stabbed Mr Lawrence in the heart outside the gates of St George's School in Maida Vale, west London, in 1995 when he was just 15. Mr Lawrence, 48, the school's headmaster, had been trying to defend a 13-year-old boy who was being attacked.

In the Daily Mirror today it has also been revealed that; A disturbing 42 per cent of people are too afraid of yobs to leave home at night. Half of those quizzed feel less safe than a decade ago. A third have called police about anti-social behaviour. And 62 per cent believe parents are to blame for their children's loutishness.

But it gets even better, even if children who don't end up joining gangs due to traditional role models being phased out on pc grounds, or who managed not to be killed by said gangs have problems:

More than half of employers say school leavers often cannot function in the workplace due to a lack of basic maths and literacy, a survey suggests.

The "Blair generation" will be the best educated in history, the school standards minister, David Miliband, promised yesterday.

There is a lot I could say to Miliband, but as the man who lacked the guts when he was head of DEFRA to slaughter Shambo the TB reactor, I treat anything he says with the unmost contempt. Altogether now lets all start singing "Things can only get better...."

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