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I love GBOWR. Best bog read ever. Give Norris a knighthood.
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Just realised he already has one.
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Dear Mr & Mrs ,
Why did you never take the time to teach your child basic morality?
As a young man, he was in a gang that regularly smashed up private property. We know that you were absent parents who left your child to be brought up by a school rather than taking responsibility for his behaviour yourselves. The fact that he became a delinquent with no sense of respect for the property of others can only reflect that fact that you are terrible, lazy human beings who failed even in teaching your children the difference between right and wrong. I can only assume that his contempt for the small business owners of Oxford is indicative of his wider values.
Even worse, your neglect led him to fall in with a bad crowd.
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I was at a meeting today with someone who's husband is a magistrate. He received an email saying that everyone involved in the looting/riots must be given a custodial sentence, followed by a message saying that they would be making additional room in UK prisons to allow for this (not sure how they plan to do this as aren't they already overcrowded?).
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...Even worse, your neglect led him to fall in with a bad crowd.
There’s Michael Gove, whose wet-lipped rage was palpable on Newsnight last night. This is the Michael Gove who confused one of his houses with another of his houses in order to avail himself of £7,000 of the taxpayers’ money to which he was not entitled (or £13,000, depending on which house you think was which).
Or Hazel Blears, who was interviewed in full bristling peahen mode for almost all of last night. She once forgot which house she lived in, and benefited to the tune of £18,000. At the time she said it would take her reputation years to recover. Unfortunately not.
But, of course, this is different. This is just understandable confusion over the rules of how many houses you are meant to have as an MP. This doesn’t show the naked greed of people stealing plasma tellies.
Unless you’re Gerald Kaufman, who broke parliamentary rules to get £8,000 worth of 40-inch, flat screen, Bang and Olufsen TV out of the taxpayer.
Or Ed Vaizey, who got £2,000 in antique furniture ‘delivered to the wrong address’. Which is fortunate, because had that been the address they were intended for, that would have been fraud.
Or Jeremy Hunt, who broke the rules to the tune of almost £20,000 on one property and £2,000 on another. But it’s all right, because he agreed to pay half of the money back. Not the full amount, it would be absurd to expect him to pay back the entire sum that he took and to which he was not entitled. No, we’ll settle for half. And, as in any other field, what might have been considered embezzlement of £22,000 is overlooked. We know, after all, that David Cameron likes to give people second chances.
Fortunately, we have the Met Police to look after us. We’ll ignore the fact that two of its senior officers have had to resign in the last six weeks amid suspicions of widespread corruption within the force.
We’ll ignore Andy Hayman, who went for champagne dinners with those he was meant to be investigating, and then joined the company on leaving the Met.
Of course, Mr and Mrs Cameron, your son is right. There are parts of society that are not just broken, they are sick. Riddled with disease from top to bottom.
Just let me be clear about this (It’s a good phrase, Mr and Mrs Cameron, and one I looted from every sentence your son utters, just as he looted it from Tony Blair), I am not justifying or minimising in any way what has been done by the looters over the last few nights. What I am doing, however, is expressing shock and dismay that your son and his friends feel themselves in any way to be guardians of morality in this country.
Can they really, as 650 people who have shown themselves to be venal pygmies, moral dwarves at every opportunity over the last 20 years, bleat at others about ‘criminality’. Those who decided that when they broke the rules (the rules they themselves set) they, on the whole wouldn’t face the consequences of their actions?
Are they really surprised that this country’s culture is swamped in greed, in the acquisition of material things, in a lust for consumer goods of the most base kind? Really?
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I think you're on the wrong forum...
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I was at a meeting today with someone who's husband is a magistrate. He received an email saying that everyone involved in the looting/riots must be given a custodial sentence, followed by a message saying that they would be making additional room in UK prisons to allow for this (not sure how they plan to do this as aren't they already overcrowded?).
Magistrates can't impose custodial sentemces. I call bulllshit.
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The NHS is not, never has been, and never will be safe with the Conservatives
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/aug/10/nhs-waiting-times
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^ brilliant! Love it and so true. We're up in arms about the shocking looting, basically kids running off with trainers and laptops and demand 'something be done'. Yet politicians continue to lap the cream and bankers still arse around with squillion pound bonuses after screwing the country's economy for several years. They're all wankers, the kids included, we just shouldn't forget those higher up the financial food chain...
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wrong - they can and do
And they can, and do, refer cases to the Crown Court if they think a longer sentence than they can impose is required.
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Labour set up the creepily named Co-operation and Competition Panel (CCP), which can force NHS authorities to give money to private firms.
Lansley has supposedly been forced to retreat from his NHS privatisation plans, but he has actually revved-up this Labour privatisation board.
The obscure quango has become one of the Tories' main weapons to hack away at publicly owned hospitals.
At the same time the panel issued a "general review on commissioning," demanding all NHS primary care trusts stop trying to look after NHS hospitals and give more cash to private ones instead.Some trusts told the panel they thought NHS hospitals were "better value for money."
The panel told them this was no good - they should make decisions "regardless of price."
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I was at a meeting today with someone who's husband is a magistrate. He received an email saying that everyone involved in the looting/riots must be given a custodial sentence, followed by a message saying that they would be making additional room in UK prisons to allow for this (not sure how they plan to do this as aren't they already overcrowded?).
If 800 custodial sentences are dished out the prison population (England and Wales) will rise by 1%.
Not sure that helps much, but it might give you an idea.
By the way, a real term increase of 1% (over a few days) is enormous.
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