Priti's latest dalliance into badly constructed legislation, the

"Statues have feelings too Act"

is notable for all the obvious reasons below.

But I'd like to point out some lesser-known facts.

Since 1851 we've had ~ 30 criminal justice acts (add data crimes etc.)

...cont
Uk average age is 40.1 years.
Of the 30, 23 have been within most lifetimes.

Off the 23, 15 have been introduced by Priti and her ilk. That's 65%.

Take out "genuine modernisation" like data and internet legislation; it's 90%.

Remove money laundering; it's 100% Priti and Pals.
To a good approximation Priti isn't tough on crime so much as tough on wood pulp.

Let's be fair. There is context.
On the one hand she's prioritising statues over women while her PM is investing in Nukes.

On the other hand, all this aggression must be having a result.
How could we judge that?

Well presumably we're criminalising more people by applying senseless and overzealous laws to things less important than the crimes we have already?

So the prison population must be growing like #Covid19?

And it is.

And so that means crime is falling?
Nope,

Actually you'd struggle to believe this has any effect but populist meat to throw at the masses.

We'd be better off firing Priti and any successors. All they manage to do is load prisons with more people who are not reformed.

I wonder who profits from those contracts.

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Unique among foreign secretaries in ignorance and stupidity.

#Raab yesterday, while defending an indefensible bill which hands statue damage a longer sentence than rape...in the NEXT SENTENCE, undermined everything Churchill stood for after the war.

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“In the centre of our movement stands the idea of a Charter of Human Rights, guarded by freedom and sustained by law.”

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Explanation follows.

SHORT MEMORIES
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Vaccines, budget and Brexit, only 1 is good news.
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Sources⏬
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What could have been achieved if they'd instead solved it?

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