UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer cancelled his holiday last week in an attempt to steady the ship after widespread riots turned the UK into Armageddon. Despite Starmer’s plane never getting off the ground, thousands of prisoners will soon be sipping a piña colada by the pool, after being released by the new Labour government to free up space in overcrowded UK prisons.
I’m not stupid. It is obvious that we need extra space in our prisons after over 700 rioters were arrested in last week’s chaos. But how is releasing prisoners early going to help? All you’re doing is swapping one troublemaker for another. How can Keir Starmer honestly say you’re safe under Labour when he’s allowing burglars, fraudsters and stalkers to roam free in your streets?
Labour can’t even say for sure if the recently arrested rioters will be released early. Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds apparently ‘misspoke’ when he announced rioters won’t be set free early – with a classically anonymous government spokesperson spamming the ‘edit’ button on Reynolds’ words. That should be enough evidence to tell you Labour don’t have a plan for prisoners. So much for electing the former Director of Prosecutions as PM. Oh, and did you know his dad was a toolmaker?
How beautifully ironic is it that the former top legal bod in the UK is letting prisoners run free? While you’re cowering away at home, fearful as your street ever more resembles a scene from Grand Theft Auto, burglars and fraudsters are cashing in on their early release – jetting off to the Bahamas before Starmer does another U-turn and sends them back to Pentonville. Even criminals know U-turns are hardwired in Labour’s DNA.
Naturally, Labour immediately defaulted to the ‘blame the past 14 years of Tory rule’ response – just as Chancellor Rachel Reeves did when she magically discovered a £22 billion budget black hole. Don’t be fooled. These problems are far too large to be the fault of any single government. Winston Churchill would have undoubtedly called Labour’s blame game an ‘inexactitude’. Magically finding there’s no money left and that our prisons are full are merely symptoms of a much bigger disease: the gaping wound where Labour’s absent plans for our country should be.
I have said it time and time again: Keir Starmer does not have a plan for the UK. Let us not forget that while we’re all busy watching our country collapse from the inside, hundreds of illegal immigrants are percolating our borders from the outside. Over 700 people arrived in the UK illegally on Sunday in no fewer than 11 small boats. That’s the third-highest daily figure this year.
Conservative Party leader hopeful James Cleverly was quite right to lay the blame with Labour’s lax rhetoric on immigration. Starmer thought he could solve the world’s problems by sitting round a table and talking. Indeed, that was his plan to ‘smash the gangs’. Clearly, he’s realised it’s not that easy to sit round a table with a bunch of criminals, the Taliban, or the Iranian Ayatollahs. With the Rwanda scheme now dead, the UK has no deterrent and Starmer’s Dragons’ Den pitch is drowning like a pig in the sea.
So these are the first milestones of this new Labour government: riots engulfing Britain’s streets, criminals being set free early, and illegal immigrants being welcomed in through the back door. If this carries on, Keir Starmer will have to be stretchered out of Downing Street just as 100-metre sprinter Noah Lyles was wheelchaired off the track at the Paris Olympics.
Surely it isn’t that difficult. If prisoners are issued with a sentence, they should serve it. Otherwise, what is the point in having a justice system at all? Confidence in our police and criminal courts will be lost. People will rob a bank one morning, knowing full well they’ll be set free in time for the 10 o’clock news. It’s same-day delivery but for criminals – watch out Jeff Bezos, Amazon Prime has a new competitor.
Joking aside, if Starmer insists on releasing delinquents out onto our streets early, he should impose community service upon every single one of them. Make prisoners give back to the communities they have damaged. I don’t want to catch wind of a local burglar lounging about in the sun in Bermuda – I want to see them out litter-picking or helping the elderly.
In terms of immigration, I refuse to feed Starmer any of my bright ideas – mainly because I’m still waiting for him to come up with a concrete policy idea of his own. Starmer became Labour leader precisely 1,595 days ago and has failed to dream up a policy that will tackle Britain’s illegal immigration crisis. It’s about time he pulled his finger out, especially when the mere mention of an illegal immigrant these days seems to spark a violent riot. You can thank Mr Farage for that one.
And with that, we arrive at a startling conclusion. So far, this Labour government has been as useful as a carpet fitter’s ladder. They have endlessly whined and complained about the country they have inherited – despite Britain being the fastest growing economy in the G7 and despite inflation returning to normal levels. All the while, Labour have let violence unfold on their watch. And how better to add fuel to the fire than adding a sprinkle of early-release prisoners?
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