Are we Jacqui’s weapon?

WRITTEN ON December 18th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Political engagement

The Home Secretary said an odd thing in announcing yet more bills and action plans and joined-up approaches and measures and powers under the banner “Policing and Crime Bill – putting people first“:

The public is our best weapon in fighting crime

Look luv. We’re not your weapon. We’re the whole point. We’re the master, not the servant, remember? A weapon, it seems to me, is an inanimate tool which does your violent bidding. So this is entirely the wrong language.

WIBBI the Home Secretary understood the public to be thoughtful, generally non-violent, and increasingly concerned about what she’s doing? I think it’s more a case of

Sorry if our honest attempts to protect the public from crime have become so crude and authoritarian that they’re pissing you off. We now realise that would be profoundly counterproductive, and will desist.

2 Responses to “Are we Jacqui’s weapon?”

 
Paul wrote on December 19th, 2008 7:14 pm :

My imaginary conversations with Jacqui Smith also tend to begin “Look luv”

Ruth Kennedy wrote on December 20th, 2008 1:32 am :

Indeed. I think we all underestimate how much can be learnt from Alan Partridge.