#LeadershipDebate points missed (or deliberately avoided by Johnson): we don’t know all the facts about this case yet, and we won’t know for some time - the inquest could take up to 2 years. We don’t know why Khan killed, or what, if anything could have been done differently 1/
to prevent it. Let’s have an enquiry, not a witch hunt. Secondly, there is no justification AT ALL for cutting the early release tariff from a half to a third of sentences for all sentences over 4 years that carry a maximum life sentence; that‘s just trying to look tough 2/
on the backs of other prisoners’ suffering; if prisoners have engaged with rehabilitation & turned their lives around, why should they be punished for what Khan did? How will keeping them in for another few years keep public safe if they get released then with the same lack 3/
of supervision and support? The prison education, probation and monitoring services have been cut to the bone, & overcrowding in prisons is inhumane - prisoners don’t win votes unless politicians are promising to be tough on them - but that makes re-offending MORE likely, 4/
which makes the public LESS SAFE. Is that what we want? People are being released from prison with nowhere to live, given £47 & told to get on with it. Any guesses how people cope faced with that situation? No prizes. Corbyn spoke the truth last night. Johnson lied & used our 5/
son’s death to make political capital. Wake up Britain: this man is a fraud. He’s the worst of us, & he’s taking you for a ride. You may think the options open to you in this election are not entirely to your liking. Me neither, but I’ll be voting least worst option: anti-Tory 6/
For all our sakes, and for the future of the country, please, please do the same.
