Comments on: Reasons to be cheerful http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2006/12/05/reasons-to-be-cheerful/ Thoughts of Antonia, Labour activist and feminist in Oxford Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:02:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Laban http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2006/12/05/reasons-to-be-cheerful/#comment-43658 Laban Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:55:12 +0000 http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2006/12/05/reasons-to-be-cheerful/#comment-43658 Eleven arrests ! ASBOs ! And you sound so pleased ! Surely those 'difficult young people' who attack an elderly person's flat must be victims of something - the Iraq war, perhaps, or Mrs Thatcher ... and aren't ASBOs just a way of demonising the young ? The thing I love about the IWCA, who have a couple of Oxford Council seats, is that they're about the only people on the left who a) think that a fear of crime may be rational and not just the result of reading the Daily Mail b) understand that the poor are the ones who suffer most Wonderful to see that your election is moving you towards the reality-based community - and keep up the good work ! Eleven arrests ! ASBOs ! And you sound so pleased ! Surely those ‘difficult young people’ who attack an elderly person’s flat must be victims of something - the Iraq war, perhaps, or Mrs Thatcher … and aren’t ASBOs just a way of demonising the young ?

The thing I love about the IWCA, who have a couple of Oxford Council seats, is that they’re about the only people on the left who

a) think that a fear of crime may be rational and not just the result of reading the Daily Mail
b) understand that the poor are the ones who suffer most

Wonderful to see that your election is moving you towards the reality-based community - and keep up the good work !

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