Loyalty Cards

You might be interested to know a bit about the Community Loyalty Card, first pioneered in Wilmslow in the 1980s after a disturbing flood of workshy Liverpudlians and other aliens into what was a very successful community. You do know, Tom, that access to healthcare and other services is dependent upon good citizenship. There are Top-up Value Points on the Card for good community behaviour, proactive self-health care, voluntary work, etc. And these points can easily be squandered by lapses into antisociality. It really is your own responsibility if this happens—we treat you like adults; it’s not a dependency culture anymore. This is the responsibility society.
And you have rights only on condition that you share the duties of every other citizen of the community. The new laws allow us to maximise the efficiency of social relationships and meet our targets which aim to protect the decent majority and make war on the degradation of communal life.

But it’s not just changing the law; we’re changing the culture, and that’s where our educational programmes come in, which I might do a little post on later. We do try to deal in carrots rather than sticks. It’s a 21st century methodology.