Tough on crime
Thus spake The Right Honour(less)able Tony Blair when he breezed into No.10 all those years ago.
And tough on the causes of crime, too. I was never entirely sure what he meant by that, he didn't explain it fully, but in hindsight that would become the norm.
Last night I caught the end of a TV show, that seemed to be about people getting nicked for doing various nefarious thing. One bloke had stolen a car from a 95 year old man. Ignoring the fact that the 95 year old man was probably not going to be the best driver in the world and that removing the car from him was probably a public service, this was a crime, and a fairly serious one at that.
They caught the guy, luckily, and not so luckily for the rest of us, gave the 95-year old his car back to carry on his death and destruction on the roads.
Do you know what the punishment was for stealing a car? A £40 fine. Let me repeat that to let it sink in. His. Punishment. For. Stealing. A. Car. Was. A. £40 Fine.
A £40 fine!!!!!! Sorry, I had to repeat it again. If this car thief had driven his own car at 35mph in a 30mph zone past a speed camera at 2am he would've got a £60 fine!
What a stupid, stupid, stupid place we live in when you can be fined more for exceeding the speed limit by 5mph at 2am, than for stealing a car.
No wonder there is crime everywhere. It's hardly a deterrent, is it? So much for tough on crime... the cause is the fact that there's no bloody punishment, so much for tough on that, either.
Still, Blair he won't care, he's leaving soon giving us the unwanted, unelected and unEnglish Gordon Brown in charge.
Wonderful.
And tough on the causes of crime, too. I was never entirely sure what he meant by that, he didn't explain it fully, but in hindsight that would become the norm.
Last night I caught the end of a TV show, that seemed to be about people getting nicked for doing various nefarious thing. One bloke had stolen a car from a 95 year old man. Ignoring the fact that the 95 year old man was probably not going to be the best driver in the world and that removing the car from him was probably a public service, this was a crime, and a fairly serious one at that.
They caught the guy, luckily, and not so luckily for the rest of us, gave the 95-year old his car back to carry on his death and destruction on the roads.
Do you know what the punishment was for stealing a car? A £40 fine. Let me repeat that to let it sink in. His. Punishment. For. Stealing. A. Car. Was. A. £40 Fine.
A £40 fine!!!!!! Sorry, I had to repeat it again. If this car thief had driven his own car at 35mph in a 30mph zone past a speed camera at 2am he would've got a £60 fine!
What a stupid, stupid, stupid place we live in when you can be fined more for exceeding the speed limit by 5mph at 2am, than for stealing a car.
No wonder there is crime everywhere. It's hardly a deterrent, is it? So much for tough on crime... the cause is the fact that there's no bloody punishment, so much for tough on that, either.
Still, Blair he won't care, he's leaving soon giving us the unwanted, unelected and unEnglish Gordon Brown in charge.
Wonderful.
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