Water Cannon

Just because a few students break a few things the Met are considering acquiring a couple of water cannons. Now I know that some students and teenagers are in need of a shower, but this is ridiculous!

What I don’t like about water cannons is the shear indiscrimination of it. Now I’m the kind the guy that the bus-nutter sits next to. Now I can imagine me going off to some demonstration, as is my right, and finding myself standing to the idiot with the loud gob and attitude. Next thing I know I’m down on my arse, soaking wet with some pimply, helmeted copper belting me with a baton.

As you are no doubt aware from my previous blogs I’m not a fan of students. I think that they are of a spoilt generation that have had everything given to them with little work and are now throwing tantrums because they are not getting their own way. However, I do support their right of peaceful protest, but I don’t think that water-cannons are the solution. If anything they will radicalise a lot more youngsters and thus increase the chances of further protest, thus making the use the cannons more likely, and so the circle continues.

No, the solution is to find those who are responsible for causing criminal damage and affray and to prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.

OK, so that means that the police will have to work harder, but, hey, that’s what they are paid to do.