Well clearly it would be (b) Graham, if it worked! But, after forty or so years of the 'softly-softly' approach of the PC 'give the scrotes a telly, pool table, gym, their own clothes, A-Level and Degree courses easy time' brigade, crime statistics show that offending is at its highest rate ever. Why don't you people see the correlation - it's as plain as the nose on your face?

I once read a comment from a prison officer whose job it was, back in the fifties, to administer the birch to young bastards - he said words to the effect of, "They never come back for a second dose". Wise words indeed.

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