Oh, well that's jolly good of you, Jack.
"I have always recognised that, while necessary as a temporary measure, it was inherently unsatisfactory and potentially damaging to public confidence in justice."
What is even more damaging to public confidence in justice, Jack, is the fact that your half-arsed programme meant that 80,000 criminals were released early. 15,000 were categorised as violent offenders and 2 were terrorists. Furthermore, from those released on ECL, 1,500 of them went on to offend again, including a number of rapes and murders.
This government bangs on about it's excellent record of lowering crime. It pledges ungodly amounts of money to pointless schemes like this Broadband nonsense, and yet it seems to have forgotten to invest in our prisons. To my mind, this is a massive thirteen-year failure of government.
It's hard to argue with Dominic Grieve's assertion that, while Chancellor, Gordon Brown "choked funding for the prison cells the Home Secretary had asked for to provide the capacity required to meet official projections of the prison population."
Anyway, moving on.
We haven't executed anyone in England since 1964. I'm starting to wonder why. I won't apologise to all you Human Rights activists out there. I am of the opinion that those who commit the most heinous crimes automatically waive any Human Rights afforded them. Of course, that's not to say that they shouldn't receive a fair trial.
I believe there is an argument for bringing back the Death Penalty. I believe that where evidence against an individual is forensically and scientifically unequivocal, the option of sentencing that individual to death should be left at the discretion of the Judge. I don't know whether or not the penalty of death would act as a deterrant, and I'm not sure that it really matters. What's important is that the vast majority of law-abiding folk in this country would see that instead of Judges passing somewhat ambiguous sentences to serious criminals, something decisive was being done about serious crime.
We are far too concerned with the Human Rights of individuals who forever chip away at the morals and values that made our country great.
It's about time someone did something about it.
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