Larry Williams Drive

I don’t blame you if your first reaction to National’s boot camp idea was to roll your eyes because, well, this is hardly a new idea from National is it?  They ran it out at the 2008 election, then closed the camps. They tried it at the 2017 election, but never got a chance to do it because Winston chose Jacinda. And frankly, it is a pretty old fashioned idea that gets trotted out by conservative parties pretty frequently.  But, hmmm... it might be worth hearing National out on this. It sounds like they might have the right idea to make it work this time around. First of all, we know we need to do something. We have a problem. Kids out ram-raiding at 2am, kids beating up young victims on video for social media fame, a 14 year old robbing a Queen Street jewellery store with a hammer. These kids need a circuit breaker. We don’t want to leave them with their families; parents who don’t mind or don’t know that they’re out in the middle of the night are not doing a good job. But we don’t want to send them to jail