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Although the horrible news tonight of a 6 and 7 year old being stabbed to death is not the usual teenager stabbings, it doesn't detract from the fact that something needs to be done in the UK concerning knife and gun crimes. Why can't governments get really tough on these thugs and impose a 5 year prison sentence automatically for 'possession', and that 5 years means 5 years and not half off for good behaviour. The incentive for good behaviour should be that they would get something added on to the 5 years if they misbehave in prison. For using a knife or gun that doesn't result in death should command a ten year sentence, and I am an advocate for bringing back the death penalty for certain crimes, ie Murder of children and Policemen etc. Why can't 'Life' mean just that? If not call it what it is, 14 to 15 years, and then on with your life whilst the grieving families arec the ones that really suffer the 'Life' sentence.Don't talk to me or any other victim of crime about 'rehabilitation', I just want the scum off the streets of Britain.

Instead of this idiot inept government cutting back on the police, they should be investing in more police, many more police. Where will the money come from? Well, what about increasing taxation on the very rich. Let's face it some people in the UK who have just had their tax cut from 50% to 45%, by an unfair government of vested interests, should actually have their tax increased to 55%. They can readily afford it. Multi millionaires have a duty to their fellow countrymen and women to shoulder their fair share of the burden that, at the moment, is only being borne by working people that are really struggling to make ends meet.

The people who really produce the wealth of any country are working people. The government that we have in Britain at the moment favours 5% of the population. They try to fob you off with, 'oh we can't do that, they'll all leave Britain' - Rubbish. Germany and France have a fairer tax system and their entrepreners haven't deserted their country. Much of the profits of these 5% don't actually stay in the UK anyway.

The subject of my first novel "Every Day's a Monday" was based on real events when I was imprisoned in the Middle East on false charges. In prison a brute of a man said to me one day, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face you English pig!" I replied, "You'll be sorry". To which he asked , "Oh yeah! Why!". I in turn replied, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well"