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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

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Arguments smoulder over urban firewalls

The Prime Minister will today unveil new enforcerising measures designed to contribute extra additionality to the various packages of measures already emplaced in the war on criminality.

Last week the Home Secretary announced that the Government was investigating the possibility of "urban firewalls" to enhance crime preventability in Britain's inner cities. The firewalls would constitute "an impenetrable and not prohibitively expensive barrier to criminal mobility", he said.

Each firewall would be comprised of a "decorative but durable fencing installation", similar in design to the Israeli-Palestinian child safety barrier erected in the early 2000s, which would totally surround each conurblightation and ensure that law-disobeying elements could be properly contained.

The firewalls would be equipped with regularly-spaced instant and utter crimino-incapacitatory crew modules, referred to as "machine gun nests" by the scheme's detractors. Law-abiding citizens would be permitted through the firewall once they had proved that they were not about to commit a crime, the Home Secretary said.

Today's announcement from the Prime Minister is expected to include an even more preventive measure involving total isolation for crimino-potential human resources from birth until the age of eighteen, when they will be able to choose between military service and a community penalty for harbouring evil thoughts.

The leader of the opposition, Boris Johnson, said that the Government had presided over "an unprecedented rise in criminality" which would not be solved by "crypto-Stakhanovite half-measures", while the Home Secretary responded that the present wave of criminality was a legacy of the 1979 proto-NuLibCon government.

Mr Johnson condemned the Prime Minister's "petty politicking" and said that the NuConLib Alliance would either support or oppose the new measure-packaging scheme, depending on how many NuLibLab rebels could be expected to vote against it.

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