Early Release

The Tories have a nerve. It was they who introduced the current extraordinary provision whereby every sentence is cut in half the moment that the judge or magistrate pronounces it.

Of course, Labour has had ample time to repeal this, and instead to introduce the sort of short prison sentences for low-level offenders (low-level, that is, unless you are among their victims, who are overwhelmingly poor), as in other countries, so that they are no longer too hardened to care by the time that they are imprisoned.

But, for that, we will need to replace the Labour Party with something better.