Time Off For Good Behaviour?

Visit Britain, where you would run absolutely no risk of meeting Elon Musk. You may, however, meet some other unsavoury characters. Having barely kept her seat in a landslide for her party, the Justice Secretary should now either resign or be sacked. And heaven knows what this business about Texas is supposed to be. You already get time off for good behaviour, including completing courses and so on. Unsolicited, 75 per cent was knocked off my time less a fortnight after I had been sent down. "Good behaviour," it said. Nothing to do with my enemies' having just lost control of Durham County Council, less than a mile from my cell. Oh, no. Oh no, indeed.

Still, whatever this "Texan-style" thing is, we can all guess who is going to be awarded the contract for it. Just as Reform UK moves away from being the private property of one man, the Labour Party turns out to have become that, but without the tedious paperwork. Lord Alli did not give Siobhan McDonagh £1.2 million to look after the dying Margaret. He loaned it. That was not kindness or friendship. It was putting yet another Labour politician in his debt.

Other families with illness or disability cannot dream of such provision. Although the Government itself says that there is no fraud whatever in relation to sickness and disability benefits, which I can assure you are extremely difficult to get, those in receipt of them are still to be beaten like workshy dogs. If four million people are on those benefits, then at least four million people need them, and that should be the story. If you doubt that, then try getting them. Repeatedly and without success, I have done so. While some disability benefits, the ones for which I have applied in my time, allow for and even encourage jobs, no one on those which did not is going into work. As what? Employed by whom? It is not going to happen. But this is not about that. This is about saving money by killing them. See also the Winter Fuel Payment, and the parliamentary fast-tracking of assisted suicide.

Yet look at the manner of life of the people who are preparing to perpetrate these atrocities. If Keir Starmer's Kentish Town townhouse was ever besieged by the media, then there would be photographs and footage. Where are they? And give over about "not using his son against him". It was Starmer who brought the boy into it. A boy who, at 16, Starmer had at that time wanted to be of voting age.