FROM LONDON SUCKS BLOG
London is the capital of the only developed country in the world - with an increase in liver disease from drinking.
LONDON - CAPITAL OF THE "LIVER CZAR"
FROM LONDON SUCKS BLOG
London is the capital of the only developed country in the world - with an increase in liver disease from drinking.
LONDON IS THE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST ENGLISH SPEAKING GANGLAND
FROM THE DAILY MAIL
It's the most disturbing social issue of our age - why Britain is plagued by a generation of violent, barely literate young men living outside the normal bounds of society. For nine months, a leading investigative journalist has been examining their world for the Mail. In the concluding part of this landmark series, she looks at the rise of gang culture
With their hierarchies and strict discipline, street gangs are nothing more than a distorted mirror image of the house system common in private schools.
Loyalty and team effort are all-important. As one young gang leader from Kilburn, North-West London, told me chillingly. 'You have to know the people, you have to trust the people, because you do everything together. When you stab, you stab together.'
Most boys who join gangs aren't irredeemably evil. They are teenagers from low-income families who have been let down by their schools, their parents and other adults.
LONDON IS THE CAPITAL ..... OF THE "LOTTERY OF LIFE"
I often say if you are born in Britain you have won the lottery of life (and if it's in Luton / it's like winning on a roll over week). That's why I respect immigrants so much they choose to come to Great Britain where the "locals" are here just by luck of birth.
Any ex-pat who "leaves" Britain for good should have to surrender their passport (you can't be half pregnant) and lets give it to an immigrant who appreciates Britain and chooses to live here rather than all our ex-pat quislings who abandon ship, slag of Britain and then sneak back in 3-10 years later and then prattle on about how much they missed the UK and are glad to be back.
LONDON IS THE CAPITAL OF AN 800 BILLION DOLLAR DEBT
FROM THE TIMES
Britain is clocking up debt at a rate of £6,017 per second as the Government struggles to balance the books. With tax receipts plummeting because of the recession, state borrowing grew by £16.1 billion last month — almost twice the entire budget for the 2012 Olympics.
Net borrowing for the first five months of the financial year stood at £65.3 billion, compared with £26.1 billion at the same stage last year. Total borrowing soared past the £800 billion mark for the first time and total state debt as a proportion of national output reached 57.5 per cent.
Just to pay the interest on its ballooning debts the Government must find more than £30 billion a year — about £500 for every man, woman and child in the country.
300 CHILDREN A DAY SWABBED FOR DNA IN AND AROUND LONDON TOWNE
IN ENGLAND, 300 CHILDREN A DAY ARE STOPPED BY POLICE AND SWABBED FOR DNA FOR THE DATABASE
FROM THE TELEGRAPH
More than 300 children a day have their DNA taken by the police and added to the national database.
Already 412,670 youngsters under 15 have their genetic profiles stored.
Once 15 to 17-year-olds are added, the total rises to an astonishing 1.1million, according to Freedom of Information replies revealed yesterday.
The DNA samples, from children as young as ten, are kept regardless of whether or not they were ever charged.
Critics accuse the police of arresting entire groups of youngsters simply to have their DNA to checked against evidence from crime scenes in future.
This year alone, police forces have taken DNA from 54,311 subjects aged 10 to 17, according to information obtained by Jo Shaw, the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Holborn and St Pancras. She said: 'Labour's approach to tackling crime is unfair, heavy-handed and ineffective.'
There are around five million people on the DNA database - making it the largest in the world. Of these, at least 850,000 are innocents who have never been convicted of any crime. On this basis, around 200,000 of the children on the database will be innocent.
The samples were taken under rules introduced by Tony Blair which allow suspects to be swabbed as soon as they are arrested.
Miss Shaw said: 'Storing the DNA of thousands of innocent young people is unlikely to solve our crime problems, but is a costly way of stigmatising young people. If you're innocent, you shouldn't have your data kept for years."
The Metropolitan Police is the worst culprit, stockpiling DNA from 144,487 young people over the last decade. The force takes DNA from thirteen children under 15 every day.
DNA graphic
Liberal Democrat spokesman Chris Huhne said: 'Innocent people should be removed from the database immediately and kids should stop being targeted to boost numbers.'
After a crushing ruling by the European Court of Human Rights last December, police will no longer be allowed to store the DNA of innocents indefinitely.
But the Home Office's proposals for complying with the ruling have proved highly controversial.
Any child convicted of a serious offence will remain on the database indefinitely - as will adults - but youngsters convicted of only one minor offence will be deleted when they turn 18.
Those wrongly accused of a minor crime will also have their DNA removed at 18. but children accused, but not convicted, of a serious crime will have theirs stored for 12 years.
There will also be a 'two strikes and you're out' policy, where children accused twice of minor offences will remain on the database for at least six years - even if they are cleared both times.
Helen Wallace, director of campaign group Genewatch UK, said: 'An excessive number of children and young people are being added to the database and there is no evidence it is helping to solve serious crimes. The numbers should be significantly reduced and innocent people removed.'
The Home Office said: 'The number of young people on the DNA database reflects the number who have been arrested for a recordable offence. That is an important threshold, as arrest must be based on a reasonable suspicion that the person is involved in the offence.
'We recognise the need for special consideration when dealing with young people and have consulted on proposals to remove juveniles from the database when they turn 18 provided they are not re-arrested and are not convicted of serious, violent or sexual offences. We have also removed all under-10s.'
FROM THE TELEGRAPH
More than 300 children a day have their DNA taken by the police and added to the national database.
Already 412,670 youngsters under 15 have their genetic profiles stored.
Once 15 to 17-year-olds are added, the total rises to an astonishing 1.1million, according to Freedom of Information replies revealed yesterday.
The DNA samples, from children as young as ten, are kept regardless of whether or not they were ever charged.
Critics accuse the police of arresting entire groups of youngsters simply to have their DNA to checked against evidence from crime scenes in future.
This year alone, police forces have taken DNA from 54,311 subjects aged 10 to 17, according to information obtained by Jo Shaw, the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Holborn and St Pancras. She said: 'Labour's approach to tackling crime is unfair, heavy-handed and ineffective.'
There are around five million people on the DNA database - making it the largest in the world. Of these, at least 850,000 are innocents who have never been convicted of any crime. On this basis, around 200,000 of the children on the database will be innocent.
The samples were taken under rules introduced by Tony Blair which allow suspects to be swabbed as soon as they are arrested.
Miss Shaw said: 'Storing the DNA of thousands of innocent young people is unlikely to solve our crime problems, but is a costly way of stigmatising young people. If you're innocent, you shouldn't have your data kept for years."
The Metropolitan Police is the worst culprit, stockpiling DNA from 144,487 young people over the last decade. The force takes DNA from thirteen children under 15 every day.
DNA graphic
Liberal Democrat spokesman Chris Huhne said: 'Innocent people should be removed from the database immediately and kids should stop being targeted to boost numbers.'
After a crushing ruling by the European Court of Human Rights last December, police will no longer be allowed to store the DNA of innocents indefinitely.
But the Home Office's proposals for complying with the ruling have proved highly controversial.
Any child convicted of a serious offence will remain on the database indefinitely - as will adults - but youngsters convicted of only one minor offence will be deleted when they turn 18.
Those wrongly accused of a minor crime will also have their DNA removed at 18. but children accused, but not convicted, of a serious crime will have theirs stored for 12 years.
There will also be a 'two strikes and you're out' policy, where children accused twice of minor offences will remain on the database for at least six years - even if they are cleared both times.
Helen Wallace, director of campaign group Genewatch UK, said: 'An excessive number of children and young people are being added to the database and there is no evidence it is helping to solve serious crimes. The numbers should be significantly reduced and innocent people removed.'
The Home Office said: 'The number of young people on the DNA database reflects the number who have been arrested for a recordable offence. That is an important threshold, as arrest must be based on a reasonable suspicion that the person is involved in the offence.
'We recognise the need for special consideration when dealing with young people and have consulted on proposals to remove juveniles from the database when they turn 18 provided they are not re-arrested and are not convicted of serious, violent or sexual offences. We have also removed all under-10s.'
WHEN COMPANY DIRECTORS OF YE OLDE LONDONE TOWNE GET MAD
A company director killed his neighbour’s dog with a garden hoe after warning her that he intended to make her life a misery, a court has been told.
Neville Hill, 48, fell out with Tricia Wales, 60, who lived next door in Yapton, near Arundel, West Sussex, after he complained about her dogs barking and leaving a mess in his lawn.
Relations deteriorated even further when Mr Hill placed a locked gate at the bottom of the garden preventing her from using the shortcut to empty her bins, the court heard. He allegedly warned her that he intended to become the “neighbour from hell”.
Mr Hill appeared before Chichester Magistrates Court in a private prosecution brought by his neighbour. He denies one charge of criminal damage.
He has admitted striking Wurzel, Miss Wales’ five year old border terrier, with the hoe after it strayed onto his property in September last year. However, he denies that he meant to kill the dog....
Miss Wales said she threatened to take him to court if he did not provide her with a key, “at which point he went completely out of control and threw the deeds down”.
“He said, ’you’re going to regret this. I’m going to be the neighbour from hell. I’m going to make your life a misery’.”
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