Peter Blexley

And so when you have people going into prison for short-term sentences, as you mentioned earlier, you're right, that becomes almost a college of criminality.

They get better connected with fellow criminals and they come out determined to offend again.

Long jail terms, stricter regimes and discipline.

We lack discipline across society as a whole.

And I'm afraid we're a lot worse off.

So what would you have done with the killers of Jamie Bulger, for example, that two-year-old?

That's different.

Yeah, it's an extremely serious crime and they deserve to be locked up for a long time.

Same as we've just had an appalling case in the UK of gang rape where a liberal, woke, fluffy, idiotic judge didn't even impose any jail time.

on the young people that did that, the monsters that did that.

And this kind of woke fluffiness is getting us nowhere.

In fact, it's getting us to increasingly lawless streets and increasingly fractured society where our streets are covered in litter, graffiti, crime, knives, shoplifting, and much, much worse.

Yeah, I joined the Metropolitan Police Cadets at 17 years of age, having largely flunked my education foolishly.

And when I got into the Metropolitan Police Cadet School, I suddenly thrived on the discipline.

I had former military physical training instructors.

Literally, you don't lean on a wall because they would say, right, Blexley, down for 10 press-ups.

And or what wasn't an option of a reply.

And I respected those men.

and became incredibly fit, incredibly disciplined, as did the overwhelming majority of the cadets, be they boys or girls, that surrounded me.

And it churned out a lot of very decent human beings.