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Apr 28
2008

Posted by richard

Something caught my eye tonight when I was quickly scanning the BBC news page: Jail over £5,500 benefits fraud

As you might imagine, I agree with that. Scam the system, take our money, and pay for it. The thing is, only a few months ago – an MP called Derek Conway did the same thing with a lot more money (something like £40,000 over three years) which he was forced to pay back £13,161.

So from this you can surmise our political system is corrupt. If you’re an MP it’s ok to abuse the taxpayers and take our money for your own lazy son, paying him for work you can’t prove he’s done. If we were a fair and just society, he would be spending about a year in prison right now, don’t you think?

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Dec 5
2007

Posted by richard

From the BBC:

Three “super-prisons” each housing about 2,500 offenders are to be built, Justice Secretary Jack Straw has said.

Following a review of overcrowding in jails, he said a building programme would take prison place numbers up to 96,000 from the current 81,000 by 2014.

About bloody time.

Maybe now we can stop releasing thugs who immediately commit more violent crimes, or rapists that only serve a year or so. Perhaps now the Justice Department can finally let the Judges do their jobs and sentence people properly instead of ‘conditional’ bullshit.

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