firecracker
28-01-2007, 22:21
So the media knives are out for John Reid over a paedophile that wasn’t sent to jail because the jails are full. As ever, it is always one individual case at a time, which is used to blacken the Home Secretary. Endless sifting must have been used to find this particular case. And it isn’t confined to the Home Office. It happens in the NHS where one case at a time is dredged up to paint a picture of a failing Health Service. Never mind that both have improved out of all recognition in the last 10 years, or that before Tony Blair became Prime Minister, paedophiles never went to jail, because our press and media have employed an entire army of journalists and snoopers with one sole purpose in life – to look high and low in Government institutions for any story which can be construed as a bad news item, then whip up the usual media frenzy, so politician after politician can be lined up like coconuts at a shy – all earmarked for character assassination to fulfil the morbid pleasures of the press and media.
And we know why the jails are full. Thousands of people have been sent to jail for minor offences, ultimately leading to a shortage of prison places. And this has happened because that very same press and media, who now slaughter Reid, demanded their imprisonment. They, in their hysteria, demanded that the Government be tough on crime. Not sending these minor offenders to jail would have meant the Home Secretary and by extension the Government getting slaughtered as being weak on crime. The press and media got their wish, and now the chickens have come home to roost. But will the press and media accept the blame for getting us into this situation? Not on your nelly! Passing the buck when being in the wrong is the press and media speciality, ‘not me, guv’ is their mantra, and all because the press and media wanted its cake and eat it too. Who, in their right mind, would want to be Home Secretary, to drink out of a chalice poisoned by our press and media?
To counter the shortage of jails, the press, media and the Tories want more prisons to be built. But there are a few simple questions, which need to be directed at the Tories. How many prisons will be built, how much will this prison building programme cost, where will the money to pay for it come from, and where will those extra prisons be built? Prisons don’t come free of charge, and nobody wants to see a prison built literally on their own doorstep. Every prison building project gets hotly contested at public inquiries by those who live in the vicinity of where those prisons will be built, and unlike the US, Canada and Australia, Britain is a small, densely-populated country with no vast interior where these prisons can be safely built in the middle of nowhere without complaint. But the Tories have no answer to these basic questions. All they do is whinge like Victor Meldrews, and offer no solutions, simply because on crime, they don’t have any policies or ideas, just like on all the other issues, and betray their empty-headedness with silly hug-a-hoodie statements. And where can we site the first of these jails? Maybe demolish the Daily Mail and Daily Express headquarters, and build a jail there. At least, it will put that piece of land to better use.
And we know why the jails are full. Thousands of people have been sent to jail for minor offences, ultimately leading to a shortage of prison places. And this has happened because that very same press and media, who now slaughter Reid, demanded their imprisonment. They, in their hysteria, demanded that the Government be tough on crime. Not sending these minor offenders to jail would have meant the Home Secretary and by extension the Government getting slaughtered as being weak on crime. The press and media got their wish, and now the chickens have come home to roost. But will the press and media accept the blame for getting us into this situation? Not on your nelly! Passing the buck when being in the wrong is the press and media speciality, ‘not me, guv’ is their mantra, and all because the press and media wanted its cake and eat it too. Who, in their right mind, would want to be Home Secretary, to drink out of a chalice poisoned by our press and media?
To counter the shortage of jails, the press, media and the Tories want more prisons to be built. But there are a few simple questions, which need to be directed at the Tories. How many prisons will be built, how much will this prison building programme cost, where will the money to pay for it come from, and where will those extra prisons be built? Prisons don’t come free of charge, and nobody wants to see a prison built literally on their own doorstep. Every prison building project gets hotly contested at public inquiries by those who live in the vicinity of where those prisons will be built, and unlike the US, Canada and Australia, Britain is a small, densely-populated country with no vast interior where these prisons can be safely built in the middle of nowhere without complaint. But the Tories have no answer to these basic questions. All they do is whinge like Victor Meldrews, and offer no solutions, simply because on crime, they don’t have any policies or ideas, just like on all the other issues, and betray their empty-headedness with silly hug-a-hoodie statements. And where can we site the first of these jails? Maybe demolish the Daily Mail and Daily Express headquarters, and build a jail there. At least, it will put that piece of land to better use.