Is this a justice system?

Verity

This is another step in the deconstruction of Britain. The insult is immense. But the people are helpless to do anything about these continued assaults on our society. They were passive to start with and failed to draw the line. Now, they can't. Try to complain about this and they will slyly label you a "racist". All this NuLabour skewed terminologoy has spread like the toxin it is and it's too late to try to fight it because it has seeped right into society over these past 11 years.

If David Cameron announced that the Conservatives would take us out of the foul HRA, they'd get in by a landslide.

Fergus Pickering

We can't do anything but wait for cameron. I hope he's up to it. I remember feeling like this in the late 1970s when the country was despised and derided just as it is now. As I said, I hope Cameron's up to it.

J H Holloway

Never mind the Blair era, deep within the Labour movement they do not believe in locking people up. Hence the lack of new prison places.
They don't believe in the traditional family - hence the perverse benefits system that discourages marriage and children.
They don't believe that there should be limits on immigration - just ask Blunkett or the clown on R4's WATO the other day.
Cherie Blair has recently gone on record as saying she doesn't think women should be in prison full stop and she's working away at campaigning for prisoners to be paid the national minimum wage.
They're still as red in tooth and claw, but this time they are middle class metropolitans who quiver with rage and hatred of Middle England and conservatism.
Two more years of this, and an economic downturn and it will be the Conservatives back in with a 150 majority.

RW

"He was jailed for three-and-a-half years last July, but walked free last month." Yassin Nassari was released 17 days early, after already having spent 413 days in prison on remand before being sentenced last July. No doubt the story will run and run regardless, for all manner of reasons, but careful reporting does matter.

Verity

J H Holloway - Well posted!

Verity

Yes, they still loathe Britain, J H Holloway, and they still have that smug, raised eyebrow smirk of self-congratulation when they contemplate the destruction they have done to our country. The creation of a totalitarian state where everyone is dependent on the government is well underway.

Frankly, I don't think Cameron's the man to lead the fight back. Number one election promise, above all others, should be the Human Rights Act, incorporated into British law so Cherie could earn a crust. Millions of socialist voters hate it as much as do the Tories, UKIP and the BNP.

Caroline

Judging by these early comments, perhaps C.Housers don't know that 'early release' (according to yesterday's news) in this particular case is 17 days. Usually it is 18 days.

Ian C

If David Selbourne's piece this week had touched on such detailed idiocy it may have been a worthwhile use of space in the magazine. Yet the only governemnt policy he touched on (and then to recommend it) was ID cards. It is this sort of thing that will make Brits either leave or take the law into their own hands. Political idealists we can deal with, we can argue with them logically. Stupidity and incompetence we cannot. The balance of powers in the hands of the executive have got to become better restrained within the British Constitution

Gordon Buckman

Is it time we spoke to Nick Griffin et al? Maybe get us out of this 'centrist' political thinking...