Forum Topic

Knife advert

Earlier today I watched a TV advert for Huusk knives.Given today's trial and another stabbing in Croydon,do forum members think it's appropriate that knives which look more like combat/zombie ones than kitchen ones are advertised on national television?

Ben Gemmingen ● 105d27 Comments

Great,what does elba know that i dont. His solution noted as "ban the sale of non-kitchen knives. Blunt the tips. Invest more in youth services and in prevention" The first is not going to stop people getting knives. Secondly to blunt the tip shows he has never use a kitchen knife and the third idea is what we all know. And no,ive no solution myself to stopping it other than putting the fear into some by actually giving someone a 5 year sentence for carrying rather than saying it and not doing it.

Julian Pavey ● 98d

Yes, a damn good thrashing would sort things out.

David Burke ● 98d

https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/tvfilm/idris-elba-our-knife-crime-crisis-bbc-one-review-b1207917.html

Philippa Bond ● 98d

Do you mean Reform?

Brian Coyle ● 101d

Forget prison sentences and stints of community work. They turn the offenders into local heroes.Instead, just bring back the birch to everyone found carrying a dangerous blade without a damn good reason for doing so.

Roger Talbot ● 101d

Yes I think you and Philippa are on the right lines, also a lot of onlineharmful information doesn't help.

Janice Evans ● 102d

Yes, and parents could be more aware and pro-active and accept more responsibilty for what happens in their own home?

Keith Iddon ● 102d

Intervention much earlier with constructive activities for the youth of today to do instead of hanging around on street corners.  Cutting all the free after school sports and music and youth clubs hasn't proved to be a saving at all.There also aren't enough facilities nowadays since all Britain's infrastructure is crumbling from lack of investment and maintenance.  When it starts to fall down it gets sold at a knock down price to the man who knows a man.  The worth is lost and the money is not invested in the youth of today or the country.

Philippa Bond ● 102d

They don't care as have heard they do expect to die during these attacks so a prison sentence means nothing and possibly threat of a death sentence would still not stop some of them, so security at all venues, locked doors, returned home safely.

Janice Evans ● 102d

Prisons in England and Wales are almost full. The prison population has been higher than the "uncrowded capacity" since the 1990s. The government has released prisoners early, delayed court hearings, and used police cells as overflow capacity. The backlog in courts handling the most serious crimes in England and Wales has reached an unprecedented high and is likely to rise further still.Some 73,000 trials were unheard at the end of September 2024, around twice the figure in 2019. The system is broken.  I didn't wear my skean dhu for Burns night!

James Roy ● 102d

A two year mandatory prison sentence for wrongful carrying a knife would put an immediate stop to this killing spree.But only a Government free of woke has the means to impose such a measure, and there is one in waiting.

Denis I. Fox ● 102d

The police can be trained to spot healthy tanned people who have enjoyed a nice holiday in the sun.

Steve Taylor ● 102d

Off white, better not come back with a tan this summer then !

David Burke ● 104d

Roger and Steve are both 100% spot on

Georgina Flint ● 104d

"The Southport killer sentenced today had links to Rwanda."He is the British-born son of Rwandan immigrants, and there is no indication he has even been to that country. Clearly something went badly wrong with his mental health while growing up in this country, and it is a tragedy for all concerned that he was not sectioned and put in a secure facility for the mentally ill before he committed his atrocity.

Richard Greenhough ● 104d

“What is needed is more Stop And Search. And more coppers on the streets to do it.”Totally agree. And you can’t just blame the likes of Amazon. Any kid who really wants to do some harm could just as easily take a knife from his parents or carers or grannies kitchen, surely? The police need to clamp down on gang warfare and Stop and Search would be a good start.

Steve Taylor ● 104d

The TV stations don't give a toss about what is advertised nowadays, Ben. They're desperate for money.What is needed is more Stop And Search. And more coppers on the streets to do it.As each year passes, so the number of stop and searches decreases dramatically.And bollocks to the woolly-minded liberal do-gooders who complain that too many off-whites are being searched. It's obvious they're the evil bastards who do most of the  stabbings.

Roger Talbot ● 104d

Oh no, I've just visualized a polar bear on a melting glacier!

Philippa Bond ● 104d

No it's not but perhaps after watching some of the other daytime ads , they'll start saving up for funerals,buy private health care and limited edition coins of past Royals.Bring back ads for Smash ,Tunes and Fox's Glacier mints !

Ben Gemmingen ● 105d

Maybe Anna's discovered there are other countries of the world?Since so many children aren't actually going to school and that this is a big problem since the pandemic perhaps that isn't a good enough excuse.

Philippa Bond ● 105d

The ad falls within current guidelines,is shown during school hours so schoolkids are unlikely to see it (their words not mine)and was reviewed last year but will be again if sufficient numbers complain.There's a lot of complaints online about the knives losing their sharpness,non delivery, a scam company etc but that's not the (unavoidable pun alert)! point.

Ben Gemmingen ● 105d

Anna talking out of her arse as usual.

Brian Green ● 105d

So what did the ASA have to say about it? And what, if anything are they going to do about it? Surely you asked them?

Brian Coyle ● 105d

AK on topic as usual.She'll be missed I'm sure.I've no idea what the answer is,who does?Any old blunt kitchen knife would do some damage.Sharpened spoons are used in prisonsI rang the ASA who said a lot of people had complained about this ad.

Ben Gemmingen ● 105d

No its OK to have knife adverts ben,everything is now soughted. Knife crime is going to fall now because You just need two forms of IDs instead of one to purchase such. Signed Y COOPER

Julian Pavey ● 105d

I will post back in February.  All for now folks.

Anna Kirkpatrick ● 105d

Learn how fear & rage can in fact be and have been  instigated. Look up www.educate-yourself.org/cn/americanmcinbaghdad29may03.shtml genocide can be  done with electronic frequencies. 'Electronic slaughter in Rwanda' The Southport killer sentenced today had links to Rwanda.

Anna Kirkpatrick ● 105d