Councils a tad out of touch me thinks...

The Times reports that:

"Violent assaults and serious antisocial behaviour are lower priorities for councils than stopping people smoking, town hall targets showed yesterday.

Despite a government poll showing community safety was voters' overwhelming priority, anti-crime initiatives will not be the main focus of authorities.

Details published yesterday by Hazel Blears, the Communities Secretary, set out the targets picked by each local authority — and agreed by her department — to be their future priorities. While performance will be measured across the whole range of 198 indicators, targets will be set only for the 35 chosen as top local concerns.

Jobless 16-18 year olds, reducing teenage pregnancy, providing housing, protecting the environment and cutting child obesity were the five selected by most councils. While reducing “serious acquisitive crime” such as thefts from cars was sixth, cutting the rate of “assault with injury” was 13th and domestic violence 20th.

Considered a higher priority than both by most councils were stopping smoking and boosting the numbers of local people “who feel they can influence decisions in their locality”.

The local targets are agreed with central government after consultation with bodies such as local police, health service and jobcentres.

Alongside the new targets, Ms Blears published a YouGov poll, commissioned by the Government, showing that 82 per cent of respondents considered “creating safer communities” among their top priorities.

The councils that do best at meeting their chosen targets will qualify for extra cash.

Ms Blears said that the initiative would mean that councils could concentrate efforts on the the specific needs of the local people.

Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, added that the Government had made “huge progress” tackling crime and antisocial behaviour in recent years.

**Progress in what Ms Smith? Eating Kebabs maybe...

So lets see, taking care care of feckless chavs who spread like their legs like the worthless skank ho's that they are for the first cock to appear and which as a result of impregnation provides a council house for them and said pikey filth offspring(don't think I am getting right wing here anyone?), as well as hugging trees/get ting fat kids to eat their greens:
This they put above wife battery, car crime and theft. In short crime that hits the poor fuckers who run the system, whilst rewarding the cunts who put nothing into said system in the first place.

Fucking hell no wonder most people consider their councils to be a/ administered by and b/ nothing that would actually hit their needs or concerns as well as run by total cunts.

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