QUEENSLAND

media is reporting that Annastacia Palaszczuk has become the most unpopular Premier since Labor regained power in 1989, after spending over 20 years cast into the political wilderness.

Obviously the main reason for Annastacia’s current popularity at an all time low, is the escalating violent youth crime that has angered the public, and simply can’t wait to vote Labor out in October.

When I was a teenager in the 1950s, youth crime was unheard of, Southport courthouse doors were closed most of the year, prisons were nearly empty because of its cold, damp convict-style existence, yet these days inmates are doing it easy, virtually holidaying in four-star airconditioned resort-style luxury.

In our day magistrates were tough and unforgiving, anybody who was stupid enough to break the law was dealt with severely, yet these days the young ones show them no respect, they swear at today’s weak magistrates, give them the one finger salute as they leave the courtroom, and get away with it.

I remember in 1957 when I was 19, I made a huge mistake by shaping up to one of those huge Southport cops, and I got a good hiding up at the police station. It was my fault, so I copped it on the chin.

Nowadays these violent youth gangs will not just shape up to a policeman, but will bash them and produce a knife, yet the courts are instructed by this totally weak Premier to keep setting these violent

young ferals free. Give the police the enormous powers of arrest they had in those days, and today’s crime will disappear. KEN WADE, TWEED HEADS