This'll teach you

The Labour Party has responded to its electoral fiasco last week byt turning on the areas that have no where else to go but stayed at home anyway. OK, these people the Home Secretry is targetting in her latest bash the chav vote winning scheme, aren't the most likely ones to be sat home learning their Latin declensions. But all the same - this is a hopeless but viscious lash out at those at the 'bottom' of society. (Though I'd say Smith herself was the arse of the country).

The Home secretary is ordering police to actively harrass young 'thugs' with the idea to give them a taste of their own medicine. It's a clear sign of political failure. Firstly it is a response to failure, it is a panicky way of trying to (yuk) 'woo' back core middle class voters. Second it is a failure of a policy because (like CCTV) these simplistic attention grabbing headline measures will be counter-productive and won't work and finally it is a failure because it fails to recognise that rozzer has been harassing young working class people for years.