3 December
2013
Last night's Panorama on the BEEB was an eye opener!
Britain has pledged aid to the tune of one billion pounds even though the is
evidence that around 15% of it is going on kick-backs and out and out fraud.
Here in the UK the DWP are chasing benefit cheats who fiddle relatively small
amounts in comparison, which of course is the right thing to do; so why are
they so insistent on giving away so much tax payers money to places where they
know fraud is not only known about but is actually the only way business can be
done? How many new hospitals, nurses, doctors, schools and teachers will that
one billion pounds buy? And what about all the people who are currently using
food banks? Surely more can be done to help those people. Top and bottom of it
all, Cameron will look good on the world's stage with such a pledge. Blair was
just the same when he was PM and even more so now he's out of British politics.
No wonder we Brits have lost faith in all of the main political parties!
Justice is
another area of concern, at least for me it is. On telly yesterday again was a
show called Caught Red Handed. Two of
the cases they showed were that of a known fraudster and a gang of armed
robbers. The fraudster had already served a jail sentence for fraud in one part
of the country and was recognised by police as soon as they saw his face on a
video recorded by one of his victims. He was arrested and went to court where
he was jailed yet again - four just four years! Where was the deterrent in the
that? there isn't any as far as I can see.
The armed robbers
targeted a jewellers one Christmas and got away with £250,000 worth of jewellery.
The manager however wasn't letting it happen again, so he installed a smoked
and dye system. Twelve months later to the day of the previous robbery they
robbers came back. The some was set off and the robbers were channelled into
the way of the dye spray. It was one of the smart water sprays. The robbers
were found in Birmingham and were sentenced to a total of 25 years inside for
the robberies they had committed.
Considering
they waving a gun around 25 years between three of them wasn't really enough.
And nor was the four years the fraudster was given. It's time the maximum was
removed from the sentencing guidelines and the minimum were put in its place.
In the States they have the three strikes rule; perhaps it's time we had a
similar systems here in the UK. But hang on a sec ...
Who pays for
all these thieving wasters to have a holiday in prison? Yes, that's right; us
bloomin tax payers. I read somewhere it costs £35,000 a year to keep someone in
prison. Perhaps it's time that once they are released they should start to pay
back that cost, from their benefits if necessary! That way crime will be seen
to have a price to be paid for the criminals. The biggest drawback is the mamby
pamby magistrates, judges and lace panty brigade would be up in arms over it.
If these toss-pots were victims of the crimes then they might actually come to
realise just how much a price the victims actually have to pay. Not just financially
but emotionally too.
And so a
photo ...
The Bull Ring, Birmingham taken from the markets side of the road.
And for a
funny ...
My brother took being sent to jail
really badly. He refused all offers of food and drink, spat and swore at anyone
who came near him, and smeared the walls with his own faeces. We never played
Monopoly again.
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