BEWARE OF THE DOG

Oh Jamelia.  Why?  You were doing so well.  After gracefully bowing out of an increasingly hysterical music industry, and even surviving an appearance on Buzzcocks with some dignity, she's only gone and put her foot in it big time.  Political Heavyweight Jamelia has come out fighting on the issue of street crime.  Her solution?  National Service and Capital Punishment.  Big J thinks that there aren't enough deterrents to crime and that if a short stint in the army doesn't cure them, the electric chair certainly will.

Now, let's not start casting aspertions and, heaven forbid, tearing her argument apart.  However.  The evidence shows that most killings are opportunistic, heat of the moment affairs.  Very few are planned or even considered in advance.  In that case, how does a deterrent work?  It doesn't.  

So, mother of two Jamelia, why don't we use your children as a test case.  As you wave them off to fight in some war torn hell hole, you can feel proud that at least they won't be hanging around Tescos drinking White Lightning and abusing pensioners.  And hey, if the war doesn't kill them there's always old sparky should they fall off the straight and narrow.

Pop stars.  They should stick to singing really.