If David Lammy wants to wipe childhood criminal records, then someone in his Department must already have pressed the wrong button and done it. Nothing could be more New Labour than that.
Nor than the combination of this level of bleeding-heartedness (what, murder when you were 17?) with the abolition of almost all trial by jury and of the automatic right of appeal from the Magistrates' Court to the Crown Court, accompanied by digital ID and by facial recognition.
Also firmly in the tradition of the only previous Labour Government in the lifetimes of the majority of the population is increasing the cap on bus fares by 50 per cent and then expecting to be thanked for having "frozen" it when you graciously declined to put it up again. And the beautiful symmetry of this front page. It feels like my twenties again.
Net Zero freezes to death the country that discovered fire, you couldn't write that.
ReplyDeleteBut I wish that I had.
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