LIKE many doubting Thomas’, I didn’t desert Labour last week but I think the case of Kai Blackmore featured in the Penarth Times two weeks back, should serve as a warning that Labour’s policies need adjusting. It shouldn’t be too difficult after leading the Assembly and Police and Crime Commissioner office for the last few years.
Contrary to your readers letter last week I think the judge had it right, I doubt if this young man’s intentions in life were to aspire to dabble with this dreadful weed, and sounding off was probably exasperation at the final ignominy of being caught and realising the bleak future. Going through school, he probably had better things on his mind, but like thousands of other Welsh youngsters has been faced with zero prospects while simultaneously being misled by approbation, heaped on a local twit operating under the pseudonym of Mr Nice, thankfully no longer with us.
No doubt many Assembly Members can attest since they took up post there’s been an unprecedented closure of factories that should be employing people like Kai, while the only factories that seem to be proliferating are cannabis factories, from media reports I understand these are run by people from outside the traditional Welsh community.
The Assembly needs to reverse this policy, and open hi-tech living wage factories, close cannabis factories and get youngsters like Kai into employment. We’ve given you another chance so shouldn’t be too difficult, now show us our faith has not been misplaced and let’s see some action.
Many youngsters have been mislead about the danger of smoking cannabis after the last New Labour administration downgraded it from Class B to Class C, having indulged this dreadful habit in their youths. If anyone is in doubt about the appalling havoc cannabis can play on the brain, look no further than the mess they left behind in Iraq, the economy this country and elsewhere there’s thousands of Kai’s in Wales and the UK, we can’t scapegoat them for a mess they didn’t create.
G Brookman
Westbourne Road
Penarth
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