Castle Point MP Bob Spink today tackled Gordon Brown during Prime Minister’s Questions on the controversial proposal to open a education establishment for anti-social youths on Canvey Island.
Referring to problems of youths, who had been expelled from mainstream schools terrorising local residents, and what he feels has been a lack of consultation with the locals regarding the setting up of the new school, Mr. Spink asked “Does he (the Prime Minister) agree that people should always be properly consulted and that the location of the establishment should be very sensitively and carefully considered?”
In reply the Prime Minister stated “No one should be expected to suffer and that is why we have created neighbourhood policing units that handle responsibility for anti-social behaviour as well as dealing with crime.
It is why also we are targeting those families that he is mentioning, whose lives are so chaotic that they’re disrupting the lives of those people around them.
No pensioner, in particular, should be expected to suffer from that, and that’s why next month we’ll be announcing new measures to help those people who are victims of anti-social behaviour, so that we can get quick action to them as well as deal with the problems at source.
So I hope he can be assured that we are taking what action is necessary but recognise this is a problem for many people in the country.”
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