Just a quick plug for a spoof article I wrote about the sentencing of rioters.

http://www.thenewsgrind.com/news/uk-news/dyslexic-x-factor-hopeful-jailed-for-trying-to-form-trio-on-facebook/

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Like it!!

Prison governors a bit twitchy about getting a couple of thousand extra prisoners all of a sudden. And no doubt some of the regular lags are looking forward to having a few "lowlifes" to beat up.

All those moral murderers and thieves. They'll probably be gutted that they were stuck in a cell while their colleagues were helping themselves to freebies.

More like a few soft kids who got carried away and are now way out of their depths.

Good article in the Telegraph about appointment of next Met Commissioner.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8713300/Chaos-hits-search-for-new-Met-chief.html
When applications closed there was only one candidate (Hugh Orde) Cameron and May were not keen so extended deadline to allow time to do a bit of arm twisting. I could see this getting very interesting if Orde fails to get the job.

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We're all right now. Tony Blair (who sits aloof, like General De Gaulle, to be recalled to save the nation) has weighed in

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... f-comments

"My sports foundation", "civil liberties people got in my way.

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Is the implication (in that article) that these riots are something prisoners look down on the way some crimes are? Funny how bank robbers are seen as heroes and that it's some kind of magnanimous crime to stick a sawn-off shot gun in the face of someone going about their job. Someone who might have a young baby at home. Point a gun at them and people like Littlejohn write misty eyed articles about how these criminals were REAL tough unlike youths today blah blah.

I'm told there is an informal heirachy within prisons, with (as you said) armed robbers near the top, and nonces at the bottom.

Unless.....

as a social worker friend of mine told me....

"They reckon sex cases get a hard time inside. Not if they're six foot four and twenty stone they don't. Nobody goes near them then."

Still no apologies as Mr Blair rewrites history (again) and denies any blame for Britain's social ills

England is NOT in moral decline, blasts Blair as he claims both Tories and Labour are wrong about reasons for riots


What Blair said was that a very specific section of Britain requires a very specific solution. Not bad for Blair for a change.....

Of course the strawman builders at the Mail are working overtime.....

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I find it increasingly rare to agree with anything that Blair says, this was an exception.
His statement came across as a fresh breeze of (err) common sense after a week or so of tabloid inspired bullshit.

If the mail readers in their Surrey villages have anything about them, they'll open their net curtains and realise that things are not as broken as their paper would suggest.

They might also question how Norway isn't "broken" after their recent gun-rampage, and why Britain wasn't broken when white cabbies and ex-con bouncers went off on gun rampages.
Though I suspect this last point stretches matters a bit.

I agree Bones... to be frank if there is anything that to me signifies 'Broken Britain', it is the articles/comments in the likes of the Mail. Really, all I see, in the main, are horrible people who want to maintain double standards so they can maintain their privileges while looking down their noses at the less fortunate.

If anything can break a country then sheer hypocrisy wins hands down in my eyes.

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To no-one's great surprise, all the "shut down the internet" stuff turns out to have been pure spin.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/au ... r-facebook