Top Cops to drop the 'Y' word...“a f***ing nightmare” says Sir Bob

Professor Rod Morgan is the chairman of the Youth Justice Board an independent ministerial advisory body on young people in the criminal justice system.

Last June 13 he asked politicians and the media to stop calling children 'yobs' and warned that Britain risks demonising a generation of young people. BBC report

'We use the word "yob" (he said) without distinguishing between very young children - who haven't chosen their parents, their neighbourhoods or their circumstances and can't walk away from them - and young adults,' he said. 'I don't think the word "yob" should ever be used in relation to young children.'

On the one hand, children represented the country's aspirations for the future in sport and music, on the other, they were being condemned by the Prime Minister as thugs in hooded tops.

That was over a year ago.

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In a document on Safer Neighbourhoods by Chief Superintendent Steve Bloomfield stated that Scotland Yard was "proactively tackling gangs and yobs across London" and was presented to the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) last week.

Cindy Butts, the MPA's deputy chairman, told top cop Kratos expert, Lord Levy's kidnapper , Sir Ian Blair, that the term was 'alienating'. Assistant Commissioner Tim Godwin agreed, saying: "I'm sorry about that. We won't use that again."

Afterwards Mr Godwin confirmed that the use of 'yobs' would not be repeated in Met documentation and was now officially banned, although Labour pledged in its 2005 manifesto to “exclude yobs from town centres”.

Giving the BBC's annual Dimbleby lecture last year Sir Ian Blair said: "Society is demanding answers and actions to deal with feral children, hoodies and yobs."

No nonsense and fewer brains, Tory MPA member Richard Barnes said: "When we hear the word 'yobs' we all know what we're talking about".

US citizen Rupe Murdoch's super soaraway Sun sez

"The Sun is campaigning to get gangs off our streets — and is not afraid of the Y-word.

We want tougher sentences for violent yobs, pressure on yobs’ parents and more action to lock up yob ringleaders.

"Blair bid to tackle yobs" ( Sun Headline yesterday)

TONY Blair last night backed The Sun’s campaign, saying problem kids should be tackled before they are even born....

There will also be a computer system to track children at risk. And parents will be told they must accept Government help.

The Sun haven't said if their bogus shoplifting story today about Bob Geldof's daughter Peaches (see pic) “I don’t do drugs, I don’t drink, I don’t smoke. I’m a good girl.” is part of the Sun's / Tony Blair's campaign.