Crime & Punishment and the hypocrisy of the liberal left

They're a funny bunch, lefties. They love nothing more than to push their chests our and strut around like peacocks, telling us how 'progressive' and intellectually 'forward thinking' they are on ways to stop crime and 'rehabilitate' the misunderstood (read: criminal scum). Yet, there are always exceptions to the lefty rules.

Under the politicised Home Office since Labour got in, we've seen vast sums of money go to 'consultants' and hand picked 'experts' and University Professors who have put crime under the microscope with the aim of finding out why people commit crime. Any outcome is possible for the government, except one: that human nature is such that there will always be people who, in the absence of a deterrent, will fuck people over.

We've had restorative justice, we've had tagging, community sentencing, money pumped into education and work placements, we've had lighter sentencing and all the usual liberal left shibboleths - all these 'solutions' have come out to play.

The outcome? Obvious. It's been an abject failure and Britain is now one of the most violent countries in Europe, with more recorded violent crime than South Africa and with a society that is bereft of civility. The country is breaking up before our eyes, and all Labour can do now is stick their collective head in the sand and pretend it isn't happening. God forbid that right wing Tories were right all along!

Ronnie Biggs. Not a young misunderstood wide boy cunt from Kennington; should therefore rot in jail until he's 203. According to Guardian reading progressives.

What do we have now? Rampant knife and gun crime, high homicide rates and assaults and rape at unacceptable levels. If a woman is raped (or even gang raped) and stabbed to death or if someone is kicked to death in the street, amazingly, the perpetrator if sent to court by the left wing Crown Prosecution Service and found guilty will receive a fake, invented sentence of around 10 years on average.

I say fake and invented, because the sentence bears no semblance to reality - that sentence is inevitably reduced by around 60%. So the worst form of scum imaginable (and there's a growing pool) often only do 5 years or so in their hotels for the worst crimes. Except...

Except, of course, if the perpetrators: a) belong to the white working class (the most hated of groups by liberal left Labourites) b) committed their crimes before the advent of colour TV and the Sweeney. Can anyone tell me Jack Straw's reasoning for refusing to accept the parole board's recommendation for the Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs?

The man is on the verge of death and is about 80 years old. He's fucked. Can't he spend his last few days with his family? Has he not, in comparison to worse scum that commit worse crimes these days, done enough Turkey?

According to Guardian readers, no. More than half of 'G' readers in that paper's poll think he should not be released. Source. I bet you if he was 40 years old, black and lived in Hackney, the poll would show the reverse - for then, of course, he would be the victim of social disadvantage and inherent British racism.

Weirdly enough, it was the Home Office Minister (Jack Straw) who refused Reggie Kray's release. Was that because he was 'wholly unrepentant'? No. He was repentant actually, as any source on the subject shows.

So why did he refuse Kray's release, even though he served more than his entire, original sentence of 30 years?

Reggie Kray was released in 2000, having served 31 years for the murder of a low life gangster. That's 1 year more than the 30 year tariff set by the judge in 1969. When you consider that the circumstances and factors involved in the crime for which he was committed, and if you then consider the sorts of crimes that go before courts now, I think it fair to say that 31 years is a fucking massive sentence.

The sort of sentence that would never be instituted against anyone now, regardless of how sick their crime and regardless of the innocence of the victim. There's no mistaking it - the Establishment have absolutely no time for white working class villains or anti-heroes of the '60s.

There's no sympathy factor there, no liberal impetus for supporting them or seeking the understanding of their communities. I needn't add here that B&D are in no way favourable or biased towards any persons who break the law, particularly on serious matters such as murder or violence.

But there's a clear bias here and it's political. I would not mind so much if hefty sentences and an absence in leniency were applied across the board, but it isn't. Meanwhile the Establishment and the liberal media search for new ways to avoid punishing the guilty properly (outside of ancient people like Biggs) and the only solutions that are discussed by people on Question Time, BBC broadcasts, Channel 4 broadcasts and consensus wet Tory pussies are solutions that involve a total absence of punishment.

The Lib Dems want to empty all the prisons of criminals who committed non violent crimes and simply ask them to sweep up some litter and wear a tag. Anyone who asks for anything severe to happen are regarded as swivel eyed loons.

The world has gone totally insane - we need to take the power back from liberal traitor scum, it really is as simple as that.