PORRIDGE

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I usually start the day with a warming bowl of porridge but the BBC tends to start the day worrying about those tender souls doing Porridge! Yet  ANOTHER story given prominence this morning by the BBC advocating the idea that we must stop sending people to prison. This is a recurrent theme and it is being pushed remorselessly. The BBC seems unable or unwilling to make the connection that the reason we have more people than ever behind bars (albeit in soft liberally run prisons) and that reported crime has fallen to a new low may be in some way related! Check out the 7.32am story (No link yet)

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2 Responses to PORRIDGE

  1. Jack Bauer says:
    July 19, 2010 at 11:52 am

    If a person was abolutely determined NOT to pay the BBC pollicence tax, and to ignore any court orders or fines..

    What would happen to them evetually?.

    I’m thinking BBC would get them sent to prison.

    Am I wrong?

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  2. Tony_E says:
    July 19, 2010 at 12:21 pm

    They can’t make the connection because it isn’t exactly true. I had may car window broken and radio stolen. The excess on my insurance is £200, the radio worth £150 and the glass a snip at £15 from the scrapyard. Therefore I don’t need a crime number and the crime is never reported.

    This is mirrored across society in all number of ways. Real crime and recorded crime are absolute strangers. (Murder somehow isn’t reported in the stats).

    The police seem to be constantly busy and the police bloggers are regularly complaining about their regular ‘clients’.Less crime there? Not likely.

    The Police attitude towards normal members of the public is often seen to be less than helpful and that also discourages people from getting the police involved where they can cover their own loss in economic crimes like theft and vandalism. Go to the police station to report being driven off the road for example, or report a hit and run accident, and they give you  ticket to produce your documents before they will take a complaint.

    This of course leaves the BBC in an awkward spot. If the crime figures are right then prison works, if they are as misleading as I claim then the Labour party totally failed to make any headway in 13 years.
    Heads I win, tales you lose.

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