Personally, I believe that once a person deliberately commits
any criminal act, then s/he forfeits any claim(s) to be treated to State handouts ("benefits") of any kind (including so-called "Human Rights").
I also believe that capital crimes warrant capital punishment. Why not? After all, all the clues are there!
But all this tough talk that we are hearing at the moment is actually just so much BS. Very soon things will revert to "business as usual", effectively bribing the low-life to "be good", and not to cause too much trouble. Remember that many of the "rioters" are just kids anyway, and therefore outside of the Law in many respects.
And how is turfing council tenants out onto the street(s) going to encourage them to become law-abiding citizens (quite the opposite, I should imagine)?
If our government wants to really do something that will make a lasting difference, the first thing to address should be leaving the EU ... and thereby closing the door to the steady stream of Eastern Europeans taking the lower paid jobs. Otherwise, how can the
chavs be "put to work" (when all such jobs are already filled)?
And (lastly) has anyone else noticed how quickly "justice" (or rather the English version of it) is being meted out to the "rioters" (which is all to the good), whilst other serious cases drag on for years. Don't forget that many erstwhile "senior people" with undoubted cases to answer still remain at large, with one notable example jetting around the world expecting people to cough up £ 1,000 (or so) a plate just to listen to his sanctimonious [censored]!
