Education and Policing Bills

Just for a change.

So, who will propose the following amendments:-

- Restoration of grammar schools, but on the German Gymnasium model?

- Restoration of O-levels in place of Thatcher’s GCSEs, at least for the most academic pupils?

- Raising of the minimum age for jurors at least to 21, and restoration of a minimum property and/or educational qualification for jurors?

- Restoration of the pre-1968 committal powers of the magistracy?

- Abolition of stipendiary magistrates?

- Repeal of Thatcher’s Police and Criminal Evidence Act?

- Restoration of the pre-1985 prosecution powers of the Police, i.e., abolition of the Crown Prosecution Service?

- A return to preventative policing based on foot patrols, with budgetary sanctions against recalcitrant Chief Constables who fail to implement this?

- Police Forces at least no larger than at present, and subject to local democratic accountability, most obviously though Police Authorities, although with the mind by no means closed to the idea of elected sheriffs?

- Each offence to carry a minimum sentence of one third of its maximum sentence, or 15 years’ imprisonment where that maximum sentence is life imprisonment?

- Cannabis to be reclassified as a Class A drug, with a crackdown on the possession of drugs, including a mandatory sentence of three months for a second offence, six months for a third offence, one year for a fourth offence, and so forth?

- Every effort to root out pornography of every sort, but with a recognition that there cannot be a “free” market in goods and services generally, but not in pornography, as well as alcohol, drugs, gambling and prostitution?

Not David Cameron, that is for sure.