Knee. Jerk.
Tory leader, David Cameron has hit out at Labour’s “knee-jerk” law and order reforms and proposed his own knee-jerk reforms - ban everything. His big idea is a “social covenant” which calls on “the companies which make music videos, films and computer games have a social responsibility not to promote casual violence, the gang culture and the degradation of women.”
According to Cameron:
“We are never going to deal with crime unless we look at the broader context and say, ‘Yes, tough laws, strong action on the police, but also action to strengthen our society’.
“And that includes, I think, video games and things like that where we do need to think of the context in which people are growing up.”
I found this story at The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant, who goes on to point out that:
Banning “violent computer games” (merely the latest incarnation of “banning video nasties”, “banning loud music” and “banning those disgusting pamphlets from France”) is an OLD FASHIONED Conservatory “Dog Whistle”. It says to the CORE VOTE: “Ugh, how horrid!”
This line has been trotted out time and again, claimed as the solution to all the ills of the world and every analysis shows that it makes not one jot of difference.
Quite.
Wednesday 29 Aug 2007 | Paul | UK
