I always hate when some lefty tries to tell me how much better England is than the U.S., and tries to pawn of the lie that it’s safer. Percentage wise Europe has more assaults and rapes than the U.S. ever will. And now parents in England are taking steps like this to protect their children:

Parents are sending children to school in stab-proof uniforms to guard against knife crime, it has emerged.

They are paying a firm which makes body armour to line blazers and jumpers with a stab-resistant material called Kevlar.

The precautions are aimed at protecting pupils from knife attacks as street crime spills over into schools.

A wave of stabbings involving teenagers includes the killing of promising footballer Kiyan Prince, who was knifed just yards from his school gates in north London.

Kevlar is a synthetic fibre that can be spun into fabric five times stronger than steel and is used in armoured vests worn by British troops in Iraq.

Essex-based firm BladeRunner produces clothing lined with the material for police and security guards.

But inquiries from parents have now prompted it to modfify school uniforms.

Why would parents need to stab proof their kids clothing you ask? From the Daily Mail:

Robberies at knifepoint have more than doubled in the last two years to an alarming 175 a day, a study revealed.

The revelation follows a weekend of knife violence, including the death of 16-year- old GCSE student Andrew Holland and two fatal stabbings in London.

A study compiled from Government figures showed the number of street robberies involving blades rose from 25,500 in 2005 to 64,000 in the year to April 2007.

This means there were 175 robberies at knifepoint in England and Wales every day last year – up from 110 the year before and 69 in 2004-5.

Ouch. Now I begin to see Lionhearts point. Those Brits are also full of journalistic integrity:

David Cameron has foiled an extraordinary attempt to infiltrate the heart of his General Election machine by a Labour-supporting newspaper.

In the latest sign that the embattled Conservative leader is determined to get tough with his media critics, an undercover journalist was exposed by party chiefs in a humiliating showdown.

Emily Miller, 25, who claimed to work for a charity that helps Indian children, applied for a £40,000-a-year job as assistant to Conservative Party chairman Caroline Spelman.

She said she wanted to help Mr Cameron to defeat Gordon Brown at the next Election. But her real aim was to spy on the Conservatives’ Election plans and to help Labour win a fourth term.

Ms Miller was caught out when the Tories discovered her Hotmail email account was linked to the Daily Mirror, Labour’s main cheerleader in Fleet Street.

When officials confronted her at party HQ on Friday, she said “I have been rumbled’ and fled the building.

The exposure comes only days after Mr Cameron forced the BBC to apologise for insulting John Redwood, author of the Tories’ new tax-cutting blueprint.

It is the latest sign that he is fighting back hard following fears among Tory MPs that their inexperienced leader is being steamrollered by ruthless Mr Brown’s battle-hardened Labour campaign team.

I guess we could learn a thing or two from modern England. If we were in the Mafia.