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So last night I attended the Longford debate... - 2008/11/13 09:55
with Jon Snow, Ian Blair (the cop who has just lost his job), Helena Kennedy QC and Baroness, Phil Wheatley boss of the prison service (who I respect) and others.
"Can we build our way out of the prison crisis?".
In Church House, which is magnificent and was, I gather, the House of Commons during the second world war.
Not much of sense was spoken actually.
Nobody addressed the lack of accountability amongst police and judiciary (with Blair there who would, apart from the odd dead Brazilian or tragic mother or falsely convicted TV host murderer or ...).
Nobody pointed out the role of the meeeejah in prison overcrowding - it's a good story...
Nobody mentioned government by tabloid headline as expressed in the lyric Shami Chakrabarti...
Nobody spoke about the need for secure mental hospital accomodation...
It strikes me that either nobody in authority really cares or they are all incompetent.
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