5 Comments

• Hywel Morgan 16th Sep '08 - 8:14pm

  It’s a fair five word summary of our policy though.

  Catching more criminals doesn’t mean sending more to jail.

• Alex Foster 16th Sep '08 - 9:08pm

  True – but that element of the policy is established policy that not up for discussion this year, and we got all those sorts of media hits in the year we discussed it. Why not comment on the bits that changed this time, rather then hop back onto the “prison is the only language they understand” bandwagon?

• Hywel Morgan 16th Sep '08 - 9:40pm

  But they were writing about his keynote speech – so I think “covering” our whole policy is fair game.

  But note the quote marks 🙂

• Chris Paul 16th Sep '08 - 10:54pm

  Chris Huhne has not only spent the iD card cancellation windfall again (already spent on the tax cut and a dozen other schemes) but also fibbed about crimes and criminals (1%?) and been at best confusing on tough on crime, or er not tough on crime.

• Oranjepan 16th Sep '08 - 11:15pm

  Chris, is it being tough on crime or the causes of it to let criminals rot, languishing without the support to help them integrate society by creating a productive life for themselves?

  Is is sensible to permanently stigmatise those convicted of actions they could have and maybe would have avoided by denying them support, and is it likely that we will prevent their reoffending by doing so?

  Break the vicious circle of crime, or perpetuate it? It’s a simple choice.