To think Brexit could make the country safer with better punishments

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Disclosure, I voted remain but today this story broke the camel's back as it were:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6608935/Ex-Westminster-public-schoolboy-strapped-naked-frame-caned-24-times.html#article-6608935

A British lad dealt drugs to his friends while in Singapore and now he's going to get 24 lashes while tied down. People in the comments say that Singapore is one of the safest countries in the world because people there are scared of the effective punishments.

So I'm starting to think one side benefit of leaving the EU is that we won't have to explain ourselves to anyone else if we decide to reintroduce similarly effective punishments?

Obviously people would need to support it but polls up until recently showed a slim majority in the UK supporting the death penalty for certain criminals so we could hold a referendum on these types of things.

Wow - NO - I wouldn't want to go back to barbaric punishments! And the abolition of judicial corporal punishment in the UK had nothing to do with the EU. Birching was abolished in 1948 (except for violent disorder within the prison system itself, where it was abolished in 1962). We did not enter the EEC till 1973.

Is this Priti Patel trying to work out if her views on reinstating the death penalty are going to fly post Brexit?

m.youtube.com/watch?v=_5aodBfdFTA

What a terrible hate filled country we're turning into.

Can't you just post this shit on the dm comments? Why infect mumsnet with mindless rightwing stupidity?

^ this

It's so fucking depressing that people genuinely think like this. Do you apply the same to bringing up children too? Should we bring back the cane and the slipper into schools? I'm old enough to remember when that was still a thing.

...if you want to tackle crime to make a country safer, you need to fund the police, education and social cohesion.

Guess what the Tories have consistently defunded over the past 30-ish years and the last 8 in particular? It's got sod all to do with the EU. Fuck's sake.

Here's the real answer ^

This must, surely, be a "joke" thread.
A very bad taste joke if ever there was one.

Oh for goodness sake OP do some basic research! Norway has the lowest reoffending rates in the world and one of the most humane prison systems. No birching, whipping or chopping off of body parts.

Frankly those calling for the kind of punishments that cause pain and humiliation strike me as no better than criminals.

And stop conflating the EU with our UK sentencing!

Cant wait to have fewer human rights, excellent, being back child labour, flogging, death penalty and all the other horrors that social campaigners spent a couple of hundred years campaigning against. Thanks for the good wishes OP, one might think you'd welcome sharia law, oh, but . . .

Why not bring back the stock while we're at it? Seems like some people would get off on throwing tomatoes at petty criminals.