Why can't UK authorities use the same system as Singapore?

[Guru Hank]

Why can't UK authorities use the same system as Singapore? If people are convicted of violent public disorder, why can't we reinstate the system used in the Isle of Man until recently, and which is still used in former British colonies such as Singapore? Keep a birch in a bucket of water in the main police stations, and enable the magistrates to have them beaten with it by a large police sergeant. ( Under the system in Singapore they use a bamboo cane, but the birch is traditional in Britain and is said to be more painful). If this was penalty was reinstated to suppress a problem of national disorder, various international bodies concerned with European penal systems could not object. It would be a matter of national security and purely a domestic issue.

 

[RayHere]

Good thinking along with hanging drug users

 

[goodluckwithhat]

Too many to cane. I think the police need to be more vigilant in using their sticks--as my father used to do here in the States when he was a police officer. Many of those rioters would end up in the hospital before going to jail in those days. Now, once the riots are over, perhaps the police can cane the parents of these thugs for raising them to think this would be OK.....