While in this thread and discussing the PC attitudes prevailing especially at the FA against Luis Suarez what is hilariously funny though is that the government eight years later have missed some logic and are thinking or repealing the anti smacking law.
Current legislation, enforced under the Children Act 2004, says parents are allowed to smack their offspring without causing the "reddening of the skin".
Previously they could use "reasonable chastisement", with a judge deciding whether they had overstepped the mark. However, since the 2004 amendments the decision has been left to social workers.
Lammy said a lot of parents in his constituency had been left confused by the changes and were reluctant to physically discipline their children in case they were contacted by social workers.
He added:
"The law used to allow 'reasonable chastisement', but current legislation stops actions that lead to a reddening of the skin
– which for a lot of my non-white residents isn't really an issue."
The politician said parents in Tottenham had to raise their children "with knives, gangs and the dangers of violent crime just outside the window", but "no longer feel sovereign in their own homes" because of the laws.
Lammy has set out his support for changing the smacking laws in his book, Out of the Ashes: After the Riots.
The law only applies to a certain part of the population skin reddeners which is racist.
Ol 'arry has got more than just bungs to contend with down Tottingham way by the sound of it.