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Topic: Extreme Right-Wing Social Democrat Watch: Blair's War on Hoodies
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Carter
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posted 31 May 2005 11:00 PM
From the Globe and Mail: quote: [...] Hoods, no longer just an adolescent fashion statement, lie at the centre of a debate over what many people, including Prime Minister Tony Blair, see as an alarming rise in bad behaviour.Mr. Blair says rowdy public drunkenness, noisy neighbours, petty street crime, even graffiti and vandalism — are top concerns. He is enthusiastically backing an English shopping mall's ban on hoods, baseball caps and other headgear that obscure the face. “It is time to reclaim the streets for the decent majority,” Mr. Blair told the House of Commons. “People are rightly fed up with street-corner and shopping-centre thugs....” [...] Mr. Blair has been highlighting the issue of boorish behaviour for years. In 1998, he pushed through legislation empowering courts to ban any number of anti-social activities, including shouting, swearing, spray-painting, playing loud music or simply associating with the wrong people. Freshly elected to a third term, he is renewing the effort. Mr. Blair is “in touch with a core middle England anxiety,” said Paul Skidmore, of the London think tank Demos. His support for the hood ban “has clearly resonated with people.” [...]
From: Goin' Down the Road | Registered: Mar 2005
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NDP Newbie
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posted 03 June 2005 05:03 PM
The wrong people?Lablair must be referring to Muslims. Gonna punish them for growing brain cells (unlike most other people in the UK) and voting LibDem. [ 03 June 2005: Message edited by: NDP Newbie ]
From: Cornwall, ON | Registered: Mar 2004
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