Michael Howard - 11 Reasons Not to Vote for Him - Reason 2

2) THEY’RE RIGHT – ALL TOO OFTEN CRIME PAYS.

Wrong – It may well be the only wage some of them will ever get, but crime doesn’t pay them or society. What it pays out is in broken homes, fatherless children, brutalised young people and massively over-stretched social services. By using a statement like this, Howard shows his hand early. By his every speech and utterance he seeks to create a “them-and-us” society, the old adage of “Divide-and-Rule" mentioned above. They're not citizens, they're the “muggers”, the “murders”, the “burglars”, the “rapists”, the “criminal”, the “wrong-doer”, we're the “victim”, the “law abider”; all these stereotypes figure heavily in his speeches. WE are afraid to let our children walk to school because of THEM. WE fear intimidation from THEM, the hooded youths as we walk home at night. WE feel powerless and insecure against THEM. WE’RE Decent, hard working people; THEY’RE yobs and drunken hooligans. He creates a picture of a nation of US’s cowering in our front rooms, doors locked windows barred whilst THEM, the bacchanalian hordes, this idea of a “feral” nation of youth, destroy the citadel. It’s a method he’s used countless times in the past and right up to the present day to deflect eyes from the horizon of what he really stands for. Like the red-tops, he’s not looking for solutions, he’s looking for revenge and as long as he can keep us cowering in our beds with his scaremongering he stands a chance of getting it too.