The Chancellor has just announced a big increase for the police force and £4 BILLION to be spent on increasing prison “places” by 80,000 !
We’re in safe hands with this Conservative government.
The Chancellor has just announced a big increase for the police force and £4 BILLION to be spent on increasing prison “places” by 80,000 !
We’re in safe hands with this Conservative government.
But we aren’t. Think about it Bill, 80,000 more prison places means we are going to have 80,000 more crims! That means the government is predicting we’re all going to be much less safe in future.
The government should be addressing the causes, not the consequences of criminality, and aiming to get the prison population down, not up.
In case it still isn’t clear, this gesture by Johnson/Sunak means the government is expecting more criminality in future.
In other words, the government is admitting that we’re all going to be less safe – our houses, cars, families and kids… any one of us is now more likely to be the victim of a crime which attracts a prison sentence.
That is the reality of this government, Bill. You’ve given them your unquestioning support for too long, and now look where it’s got us.
The Conservatives can’t make an honest claim to be the party of law and order when they’ve gutted legal fees, leaving many poor without justice. It’d be nice if some of this funding helped out in securing justice, not just in PR-positive boasting.
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