Knife crime is obviously a serious problem – just watch the news. It needs to be tackled by the “carrot and stick” approach.

Muddled_Mouse, Harrogate

FFS, one of my all-time pet peeves; you use a carrot and stick to make a donkey move forwards. You speak softly and carry a big stick if you want to be taken seriously. Unless of course he’s advocating slowly moving knife-wielding criminals forwards by dangling something in front of them, attached to their necks somehow.

Almost as bad as using “star-crossed” is a positive way – IT MEANS BAD THINGS.

The worst decision ever made in the history of mankind was to let them on a golf course

Coming in a close second as The Worst Decision Ever Made In The History Of Mankind is….bringing back Family Fortunes with Vernon Kaye.

The earths climate has changed over millions of years , the romans used to grow grapes up by hadrians wall , the sun controls the earths climate , not what man is doing, man cannot tame mother nature , the whole Man made global warming circus exists only to Tax and frighten , the gulf stream changes on its own accord , as do the ice caps .

The gulf stream and ice caps change of their own accord – indicating intelligence and free will in both. I suppose if you are as crushingly stupid as Ian Jempson you might spot superior intelligence in just about anything – rocks, water, ice…

Ian Jempson, Revoloutionsville

Pedo.

what would I get without previous? Probably very little.

Nah mate – you’re a sales manager, one up the food chain from plankton. They’d have thrown away the fucking key, you frothing Granny’s oyster.

Do the maths fuckwit –

1) Guy with obvious mental health issues momentarily lets the paranoia take a grip and lashes out in broad daylight, in front of an audience, in perceived self-defence.

2) Mob of frothy mouthed vigilantes engage in a premeditated gang-attack on a lone, unarmed, individual in a darkened alley behind a back-street pub.

Go on – go ahead – then see who gets the book thrown at them. Odds-on it wont be the mentalist; you fucking dimwit.

And because of his brush with BBC fame he now believes himself to be one of the BBC’s team of pundits and qualified to spout his bollocks at will.

Boo. I have a sad now. Goodbye.

According to the article, Ian Jempson has mates. The BBC has begun its long and precipitous descent into yellow journalism.

Mr Jempson says he has been deeply disappointed by the justice system

Community sentences have come under fire for being too lenient on offenders. Here one victim explains why he thinks they are an inadequate form of punishment.

About four years ago Ian Jempson was sitting chatting with his wife and some friends in a Leicestershire pub, when a man sat down next him and without provocation punched him in the face.

see full, enlightening interview here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7919134.stm

i like the conclusion:

” I mean, if that’s what you get with previous, if I went round with a few mates and duffed him up what would I get without previous? Probably very little.

“It wouldn’t happen, but it is a thought that has to be explained if justice isn’t being seen to be done”

The world would be a far better place if we could just string up anyone who offended us via rudimentary symbolism.