The UK really is in trouble when towering intellects like this Tory MP are in charge of the country.
The Member of Parliament for Cornwall, Scott Mann, was ripped to shreds online after he suggested that "every knife sold in the UK should have a GPS tracker fitted in the handle".
Where to even start with this?
There are over 66 million people living in the UK. If each one of them had even just one knife each, the cops would still be responsible for tracking an impossible amount of information.
Only a Tory could look at the data correlating knife crime with living in poverty and think that spending an inordinate amount of cash on tracking literally MILLIONS of knives is the best way to tackle the problem.
Anyway, dear readers, the Jouker is pleased to reveal that Scott Mann is currently being ratioed into oblivion on Twitter for his bizarre suggestion.
Last we checked he'd had 350 retweets and over 3,400 responses...
Here are a few of our favourites.
Have you got much in the way of a plan for how the police monitor the movement of the UK’s, let’s say 300 million knives?
— Tom Peck (@tompeck) March 14, 2019
There's definitely a weapon here and it's not the knife https://t.co/i7frppk51k
— Dr Brooke Magnanti (@belledejour_uk) March 14, 2019
*going to work as normal, taking cutlery with me for my packed lunch*
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) March 14, 2019
Police slam me to the ground, tasering me in the nuts:
"YOU'D BETTER BE FUCKING FISHING, SON OR YOU'RE GETTING LOCKED UP FOR A LONG FUCKIN TIME"
I love the way Tory MPs all seem to think we're living in a Philip K Dick novel when it comes to the existence of non existent technology that suits their mental policies, while simultaneously wanting us to live in 1955 in their retro fantasies about British values. https://t.co/oRmLdlxGSp
— Malcolm Tucker (@Tucker5law) March 14, 2019
If we're attaching GPS to weapons, we should stick one on you, mate. https://t.co/YHByz7mmxK
— My Actual Face (@redrichie) March 14, 2019
Why stop with knives? Let's install gps trackers on every fork too
— Wild Geerters (@classiclib3ral) March 14, 2019
I don’t think the main problem with stabbings is not knowing where the knife is.
— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) March 14, 2019
I've got this folks... pic.twitter.com/BeWCjOOm94
— Matt Buckland (@ElSatanico) March 14, 2019
Fwiw I quite like it when MPs come out with mad policy ideas they’ve clearly just imagined up 10 minutes ago https://t.co/81BEeKIy9Z
— Abi (@AbiWilks) March 14, 2019
You’re not the sharpest gps tagged knife are are you?
— Graham Love (@GLove39) March 14, 2019
Why stop there? GPS trackers in EVERY KITCHEN IMPLEMENT. If you're carrying a spatula on the tube you better have a bloody good explanation. https://t.co/RaWh9CFDOK
— Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley (@lottelydia) March 14, 2019
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