E-petition to axe rioters' benefits

[Mysturji]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14474429
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[Tyrannical]

Can't you find another penal colony to send them too? Picking the Falklands would turn Argentina off it for good.

[Mysturji]

Can't you find another penal colony to send them too? Picking the Falklands would turn Argentina off it for good.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1457035.stm

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Can't you find another penal colony to send them too? Picking the Falklands would turn Argentina off it for good.

Why not just throw a wall up around Wales?

[Mysturji]

Can't you find another penal colony to send them too? Picking the Falklands would turn Argentina off it for good.

Why not just throw a wall up around Wales?

Or separate it from England, tow it west and glue it to Ireland?

[Tyrannical]

Or, you could just all vote BNP

[Bella Fortuna]

[Feck]

So we assume they were all on benefits ? wrong
and what do you think they are going to do with no money ? erm probably nothing legal or good for society !

[Mysturji]

Or, you could just all vote BNP

Or the Islamic Jihad Sharia Kill All The Infidels party.

[Mysturji]

So we assume they were all on benefits ? wrong

No. Obviously only the ones on benefits could have their benefits axed.

and what do you think they are going to do with no money ? erm probably nothing legal or good for society !

As opposed to what they HAVE been doing?

[Tyrannical]

You only have three basic choices.

1: Let them starve
2: Force them to work
3: Keep giving them free money and benefits

[laklak]

I'm betting (3) is the choice, but only after raising the benefit limits.

[Tyrannical]

(2) is the most logical though.

Hell, there is no magical rule of physics that says you even have to give people on benefits the right to vote. Athenian democracy used to cut off the deadbeats.

[Rum]

Unfortunately or otherwise they can't actually invent a whole new 'disposal' tariff as they are called just because most of us are really pissed off with these shits. They have to pass things called 'laws' and crap.

[Cormac]

(2) is the most logical though.

Hell, there is no magical rule of physics that says you even have to give people on benefits the right to vote. Athenian democracy used to cut off the deadbeats.

Ah, but Athens wasn't democratic in a sense that we'd recognise today. It had a subservient and enslaved population underpinning its economy - the Helots. The Franchise was also very strictly limited.

While we can recognise the roots of democracy in Athens, it is hard to describe Athens as a democracy. More accurately, it was an Oligarchy.