My column this week is about how crime is thriving under this government of "law and order", as a result of catastrophic institutional collapse.
If you are ripped off by a conman, don't expect justice.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
If you are ripped off by a conman, don't expect justice.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
It's the same across the board: the bodies supposed to protect us from crime have been cut to the bone by 11 years of austerity and simply can't function any more.
It's party time for conmen, rip-off employers and landlords, river polluters, waste dumpers and profiteers.
It's party time for conmen, rip-off employers and landlords, river polluters, waste dumpers and profiteers.
It's got so bad that I can't help beginning to wonder - could this be a cynical strategy?
You talk big on crime, but let it proliferate, driving frightened, insecure people into your arms.
Crime and insecurity favour rightwing demagogues.
You talk big on crime, but let it proliferate, driving frightened, insecure people into your arms.
Crime and insecurity favour rightwing demagogues.
As for the "efficiency" of austerity, how is it efficient to spend half the day in a phone queue listening to The Four Seasons, only to talk to someone in a call centre who can do nothing more than forward your complaint to an office with no capacity to handle it?
How is it efficient to find yourself in a labyrinth of institutional buck-passing, with no means of talking to anyone with the capacity to act, no means of holding them to account, no means of even discovering whether your complaint is being processed?
It doesn't matter at what point you encounter the regulatory system in the UK.
The experience is always the same:
Nothing. Works. Any. More.
The experience is always the same:
Nothing. Works. Any. More.
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