Ban Hoodies?

There is a petition on the Downing Street website calling for hoodies to be banned for sale in the UK.

Hoodies have already been banned at Bluewater Shopping Centre, in Kent. Prime Minister Tony Blair backed the ban. John Prescott described hoodies as "intimidating uniform".

The banning of hoodies, and proposals to widen such bans, have been growing in recent times. In 2005, a youth was handed an ASBO which banned him from wearing a hoodie. Disciplining him, or tackling the cause, would have been more effective.

I wear a hoodie. I am not a chav. I disklike chavs because of the way they act, not because of their clothes sense.

People also seem to have lost the plot. Banning sale of hoodies will not stop people wearing them. It will probably just result in a black market, which would be quite amusing!

If society actually did something about chavs directly, rather than banning their clothes, we would get somewhere. Some shopping centres in Manchester resisted a similar proposal in 2005, saying they would rather deal with individuals than eject everybody.

Banning hoodies to stop people from hiding is unlikely to work, there are still things called hats and helmets. A simple "hats off" policy would be far more sensible.

I wonder what chavs will wear if hoodies get banned? I hope they move onto suits and ties, then things get interesting...