No, of course not.
But if we returned to the situation whereby we could safely
assume that almost everyone convicted deserved to be, and where there was far
less crime anyway due to proper policing, then no one would be suggesting this.
We could also have proper sentencing, and a proper regime
for the far fewer people who would be in prison. None of whom would be in for
less than the four or five years of a Parliament despite having been convicted
of the gravest violent, sexual or drug-related offences.
However, if we did not implement a ruling of the European
Court of Human Rights, then what would happen? What would it, or anyone else,
actually do?
Labour Party policy has always been against votes for
prisoners. The last Government was utterly uncompromising on the subject. Quite
right, too. But the party in favour of it is now in office.
Might this be yet another issue on which Ed Miliband and Jon
Cruddas could establish themselves and their party as the voice of mainstream
Britain?
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