Reid again uses headlines to make knee-jerk policies

i read this morning about how John Reid was going to register paedophiles online, which i thought was another knee-jerk reaction to bad policy while reading thelastboyscout blog he sort of summed it up better than me so here is what he has to say.


Doesn't John Reid learn anything?He has been in the lucky position of not having his department rediculed for nearly a week, so he feels obliged to present another half-baked, off the cuff, opportunistic policy idea.Last week, at the time of the Birmingham terror raids, captain chaos John Reid opportunistically used the situation to call for the increase in the amount of times suspects can be detained.

So it came as no surprise this morning that following the imprisonment of three men yesterday for the planning of a horrific sex attack over the internet, that he has used this judgement to grab another headline.

This time the Home Secretary has said that he wants to make paedophiles put online identity details, such as email addresses, and chatroom nicknames, on the Sex Offenders Register.Now, this would be a step in the right direction, if the whole idea wasn't fatally flawed.In fact, it doesn;t just have one flaw, but many.

For a start, it's John Reid's idea so it's destined to fail.

It would also be practically impossible tomonitor, as it possible to create a new net id within seconds.Besides how on earth does he hope to keep a track of paedophiles over the internet, when he can't even keep track of them when they do sign the sex offenders register.Take my advice John, sort out the problems of the Home Office first, before you start coming up with even more flawed initiatives.