Tuesday 5 June 2012

Hardly any children haven't been mugged

On 3 March 2008, Emily Thornberry, New Labour MP for Islington South and Finsbury, was quoted thus by The Daily Mail:

"I SUSPECT THERE ARE HARDLY ANY CHILDREN IN ISLINGTON WHO HAVE NOT BEEN MUGGED AT SOME STAGE…
If you talk to kids it is the main thing they are afraid of... It is a hidden crime. Kids are robbing other kids but you don't hear about it... YOUNG PEOPLE ARE BEING MUGGED REGULARLY. WE DON'T WANT IT TO BECOME A WAY OF LIFE."
Er, Emily, 'if hardly any children in Islington... have not been mugged,' it already HAS 'become a way of life!' And the fact that it’s 'hidden' and we didn't get to 'hear about it,' well, that was down to New Labour, Emily. It was your lot who did their damnedest to keep such damning information quiet.

Anyway, Emily, answer this question for me, would you? Why are you still a Labour politician, the shadow Attorney General no less, when it was New Labour, with a bit of help from Old Labour, the Tories and the Lib Dems, that created hell on earth for our children to live in?

It's all gone quiet over there.

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