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Should the UK.reintroduce the "Birch"to combat "Yob culture?"?
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Should the UK.reintroduce the "Birch"to combat "Yob culture?"?

We have "Yob. riots" in Norfolk and a dramatic increase in knife crime.Is it not time the general population called for a more dramatic punishment for these anti- social individuals.
Political parties appear to be frightened of imposing effective punishment.
Is this as a result of EU.policies?


    




Doctor John
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Those riots in Norfolk weren't caused by yobbos; They were caused by the police!


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Noeell......you nitwit.....this is the UK...go home YANK!


fundamentalist1981
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Bring back the birch. Pain is an excellent teacher.

And corporal punishment in schools too.


alan_attack
Norwich hasn't been the same since the city centre was pedestrianised.

Kill all of the anti-social sub-human scum!


Dry Dreamer
It would be wonderful, but it is not going to happen..sadly


Jock
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Bring back hanging. I don't think the Birch would be a big enough deterrant. Also put all the junkies into tower blocks, move the decent people that live in tower blocks to nicer accomodation, then blow the lot up. It'll be the biggest "Hit" the junkies will ever have.


trish
yes definitely. We need a no tolerance approach to our problem. And the human rights act has a lot to do with it. There hasn't been any effective punishment for a long time


cheek_of_it_all
If people voted by not paying their council tax, then the government would have to listen and make changes.


phatty
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Yes bring back the birch give the police the powers to give them it on the spot without any reprisals in the street in front of everyone


Martin
Yes we should, or at the very least bring in a one years trial and then see the number of gang attacks plumit after they've been flogged to within an inch of their lives!


vdv_desantnik
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a friend of my wife went to Isle of Man on a school trip and while he was there he shot a swan with an air pistol. Not only was he birched, but the ferry back to Belfast was held up so the rest of the school trip could watch. None of them have been in trouble since, especially the guy who was birched. I think it would be a much more effective deterrent to crime than what we have now


Scrimboblik
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My grandfather came to see me one day when I was younger insensed as he had heard a young adult bragging about being in prison. He was shocked. The thing I always remember is him saying, 'I never heard anyone brag about being birched'.
Since that day I have heard people brag about imprisonment and now I agree with the reintroduction of the birch.
Answer - YES


firebobby
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Not necessarily the youths that are at fault, but the parents who fail to instil the basic elements of decent humanity in their children.
To bring it to the basic level, a child is an animal who knows nothing, other than what it`s parents teach it, if the parents fail in their natural tasks ie teaching acceptable behaviour, they are as much at fault as their offspring.
Due to todays benefit culture, children are a source of income to some people who think their moral responsibilities end in the maternity ward.


francis f
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yob culture only exists because gymslip hippy parents havent properly disciplined their wayward brats, lets talk about why you beat up that elderly gentleman, no lets beat you to within an inch of your life! just retribution if you ask me.
most of these kids s h i t themselves when they are stood up to, bringing the birch back and doing it in public for all to watch would work for a while but then it would become like tags or asbos theyd use it too their advantage as a badge of honour to show how hard they are.
a proper good old fashioned borstal from the old days with hard work and proper discipline and not luxuries thats what they need a bitter sweet taste of reality.


The Badger!
national service to all that cause trouble and execution to rapist and phaedophiles they are a scum that need dealing with


K. Marx iii
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Birch was the best thing invented. Useful for those dole heads at Heathrow too. Remember that American boy who was damaging cars in Singapore. They gave him 12 strokes of the birch. When he went back CNN offered him a million bucks to film his raw rear and he was too embarrassed to. So it works. He went back to college and stuff but learnt his lesson


Helen
My fella knows a few people that have had the birch (it was only recently outlawed in the Isle of Man ,a British island )

He says one of the hardest men he has ever met refused to remove his t-shirt on one of the hottest days of the year despite the fact that the two of them were alone on a fishing boat 40 miles from land !

Yet he thinks it should be reintroduced in principal but applied in a manner that does not cause permanent disfigurement .

Politician refuse to accept that violence is a natural part of the human genetic makeup and insist on pretending to be tooooo civilised for that old boy .


gramps
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yes, simply yes. also i think punishment should fit the crime, if someone is caught doing graffiti then they should be forced to paint every single council building in the city until they are all clean, and if one gets re-sprayed, they have to keep going, that would get the message across


JS57
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I think planting trees would be a very positive activity for young people, but why just Birch? Why not Oak or Beech?


just-dave
Such punishment is barbaric and would make them out as heroes, prison would be a training ground for them, the parents can't control them so the only way is psychological therapy to try and straighten them out, failing that a frontal lobotomy. How can u change warped evil minds?

Aha! national service would do it! redirect all that negative energy to something useful, maybe they need to feel proud of achievements.


Barne-Hurst
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YES! AND HANGING for murder and life to mean life. NOT six years. And hang all the do gooders and European
busy bodies, who havent got the basdic grasp of what life
is all about for the man in the street!
If in doubt, rule 303 applies! ( = BANG)


Noelle
Maybe you should ask over on YA UK


mick
definately bring back the birch and bring back hanging for murder and a life sentance to mean just that ----LIFE





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