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Oh-oh, atomic

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You know if nuclear power is so safe and our Government is so confident about building all these new nuclear power stations and nuclear powered and armed submarines?

Then why the Hell are they running around the country impounding planes and shutting down restaurants just because a bloke who died of nuclear poisoning flew on them or dined in them?

Just a thought.

Saw Jeremy Hardy tonight. A very funny man. He doesn’t like wasps either.  His description of Scary Ruth Kelly as the Buggery Czar was a particular highlight.

Dedication’s what you need

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Roy Castle and Norris McWhirter would be proud of “New” Labour and its record-breaking efforts. I’m sure I remember as a kid watching someone on Record Breakers trying to get 40 people inside a Mini. Messrs. Blair, Straw, Blunkett, Clarke and Reid are attempting the same in Britain’s gaols:

  • 80,000 Prison population today. There are just 317 spare places.
  • 60 Pieces of legislation relating to criminal justice since Labour came to power in 1997.
  • 25,000 10-year rise in prison population.
  • £100,000 Cost of each new prison place.
  • 4,452 Female prisoners in 2004 compared with 1,804 in 1994
  • 10,089 Foreign national prisoners.
  • 78 Self-inflicted deaths in prison in 2005. There were 65 in 1997.

Tough on crime, not really all that arsed about the causes of crime.

Lord Ramsbotham, the former head of the prison service, today describes this approach as:

the Government’s headlong and self-induced race to absurdity as far as the conduct of imprisonment is concerned.

THIS, however, still remains The Best Criminal Justice Idea Floated By A Serving Home Office Minister In The World… Ever!(TM)

Hilary Benn plans to run for the deputy leadership of the Labour Party in 2007.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

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