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From the newspapers
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/wealthy-son-hired-dad-78-30602462
“A mother was left injured in a horrific revenge attack when her lover hired his retired father to help ‘sort her out’ after she refused to have sex with him.
Alex Craig, 36, and his 78-year-old father Francis Craig carried out the attack when Alex dumped Luana Dougherty. Luana’s daughter Carlee, 16, and her boyfriend Finn McBride were also injured.
The court heard [that] Craig snr, a retired builder, arrived at Miss Dougherty’s house on March 19 and went on to threaten Carlee by saying he would kill her as he pulled her hair and threw her to the ground.
Craig jnr then kicked Miss Dougherty, a mother-of-two, twice in her ribs and repeatedly kicked Finn McBride, 16. During the attack, he also threw a bicycle, pool balls, and an electric fan at the teenager.
Miss Dougherty, a community support worker from Cheshire, was left with bruising to her ribs, a cut to her right arm, and a cut to her lip. Carlee suffered a bump to the side of her head and a bloody nose while Finn suffered cuts to his knees, a bite mark under his left arm, and a split lip.
…at Chester Crown Court they admitted affray and were each sentenced to 18 months in jail suspended for 18 months.“
[Daily Mirror].
In what world are the above offences suitable for suspended sentences, looking at the deliberate and premeditated assaults, and the injuries? Crazy Britain, 2023.
Of course, routine over-sentencing in other cases is one factor that has led to a shortage of space in the prisons.
There is a sense that this country is not far from “anarchy” or, better put, societal breakdown. The urban jungles are the worst areas, of course.
We are living pretty much on the edge now, to a greater extent than is generally understood.
Incidentally, I have just been reading the memoirs of Gorbachev, which came out in the mid-1990s. He says that, in Stavropol region, southern Russia, of which he was effectively in charge before going to Moscow as a candidate-member of the Politburo in or about 1980 , they had exactly the same problems— petty and not so petty crime, and arguments around sentences, community penalties, and as to whether prison was the right punishment in less serious cases.
This is the kind of treachery taking place in schools.
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If this war both continues and continues to escalate, Kiev will eventually cease to exist except as a blackened ruin. Stop the war now. Stop funnelling arms and ammunition (and money) to the Kiev regime.
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Well, you live and learn. I should never have thought that Karachi was as green and lush as that; looks like England. Maybe outside the main city, and/or in hills. I do not know. I know that Karachi is the 12th-largest city in the world (20M inhabitants) and that much of it is rather bare and dusty. Obviously not all, though.
PMC Wagner, aka “The Musicians”.
As someone once wrote about the (I think) Conservative, or maybe also Liberal Party MPs, after the First World War, “hard-faced men who had done well out of the War“.
Ah…just pinned down that quotation: Stanley Baldwin, and the correct quotation is, apparently, “A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war“, referring to MPs elected in 1918. Baldwin was quoted in the influential 1919 book by J.M. Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economic_Consequences_of_the_Peace].
Bournemouth
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23694543.letter-the-town-centre-looks-like-wasteland-filthy/
“After visiting Bournemouth town centre today, I came away feeling shocked and sad to see what has happened to the town since I last visited and felt the need to vent my frustration.
I consider myself a local despite no longer living in the area.
I am 34 and lived in Christchurch for most of my life.
I loved regular day trips or nights out in Bournemouth.
The town was always so vibrant with lots going on, great shops and restaurants and always felt very safe.
I moved up to Scotland five years ago and have just returned to Bournemouth for a visit.
What the hell has happened to this place? There are barely any shops left, with many boarded up.
The town centre looks like a wasteland and is filthy.
A high proportion of people walking around the town centre seem to have a drink or drugs problem.
Quite frankly there is no centre to visit anymore and the issues with drink and drugs make the place have an unpleasant and uncomfortable atmosphere.
I just don’t understand what this council are doing but it genuinely disgusts and saddens me.
Simply having a nice beach and gardens is not enough of an attraction with such a rundown town at its centre.
Growing up I was always so proud to live in such a beautiful place.
Now I couldn’t be happier that I no longer live here and after my experience this week I doubt I will ever return to the area again.
What a shame.
SAM GRIFFITHS
Elgin, Scotland“
[extracts from a letter to the Bournemouth Echo newspaper]
Bournemouth is about 17 miles from my present home. I remember, just about, being there (from Berkshire) with my family on occasional days in the early/mid 1960s. My memories were of somewhere safe, white, English, sunny (we visited on odd days in the summer), with clean streets and buildings (mainly hotels and apartment buildings), a beach not too crowded, bright yellow double-decker buses.
I also spent a few days there in the 1980s, as a kind of unofficial add-on to a Soviet dance ensemble (my then girlfriend was interpreting for them); I cannot now recall which dance or ballet group it was, but one of the well-known ones. The hotel was a quite decent 3/4-star place, with an unheated outdoor swimming pool. All the Russians opened their windows and looked out when I jumped in and swam in the cold water at about 8 in the evening, after dark.
I also visited the place another time, also early 1980s, when I and my then girlfriend swam with the ex-wife and children of the poet, Yevtushenko. I blogged about that years ago. The grandmother of those children had a wooden bathing hut on a semi-private beach in a pleasant area of Bournemouth; also a nearby home.
Bournemouth is appalling now. I almost never go there. 20+ years ago, it was still not too bad, though nothing like what it was like in the 1960s anyway. I drove there a few times in 2000.
By 2009, when I had to go there and nearby a few times, the downturn was pretty obvious. Large numbers of foreign persons, mostly non-white. Part of that would be the number of language schools there (genuine or otherwise), and also other higher education institutes attracting foreign students. That is far from being the whole picture, though.
As for drugs, I have never had any connection with them (unless you count the cannabis-smoking bourgeois dropouts etc I knew in the mid-1970s, or the DEA agent to whom I was introduced at the Federal Courthouse in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1990, and who showed me the real evidence in a trial that was going on: a sportsbag filled with vacuum-packed cocaine, the packs looking like supermarket coffee packs, but transparent, containing white powder, packed hard). Worth USD $250,000 wholesale, apparently.
However, Bournemouth is apparently now a drugs hotspot.
Sad. Bournemouth is not alone in becoming a dump. Torquay and many other towns, previously rather nice, are no better.
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A “conspiracy theory” that may not be completely impossible, when you look at times, dates, and the behaviour of Trudeau’s mother.
Interestingly, Justin Trudeau was, it is said, a passenger on at least one flight of the aircraft owned by Jeffrey Epstein, the now-deceased Jewish rapist, supposed millionaire/billionaire, and Israeli intelligence asset: see also https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/08/11/the-jew-epstein-and-prince-andrew-the-british-royal-family-has-another-scandal-maybe-its-time-to-just-get-rid-of-them/.
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How pathetic and despicable are those two cowards scared of getting wet feet! A generation of bloody wimps!
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That horrible thug and his father should have been thrown into a jail for, at least, 5 years! They should also have been forced to pay a large fine (£10.000) as some kind of compensation to the poor woman they beat up and her family.
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Claudius:
That is Britain in 2023. People who should be punished not really punished, while others getting far-too-long sentences.
There are many people prosecuted and/or severely punished who really should be dealt with (if at all) by minor fines, or loss of profession, e.g. those occasional women (sometimes teachers) aged 20-50 prosecuted for having sex with teenage boys. [cf., though decades ago, Madame Macron in France!].
I mean, is that really something to be regarded as “criminal”, as distinct from mere bad behaviour? As for the complainants, I think that they are just silly, in most cases. Had I had such an experience aged 16 or 15, I should have just regarded it as a life-experience and moved on. No doubt there are real cases that should be prosecuted, but I should think very few.
Then of course there are those such as Jez Turner, Alison Chabloz, Piers Portman, prosecuted and (in those three cases) actually imprisoned for petty “non-offences” such as satirizing Jewish behaviour, and prosecuted after a campaign by malicious Jews.
On a more general note, in the UK there are many people who get sentences of several years for all sorts of things, when (bearing in mind “licence”, i.e. parole, after a half of the sentence is served) a year (i.e. 6 months) would be enough, in most cases. There *are* dangerous persons, and really persistent nuisances, and they are different. The public must be protected. They, though, are a minority.
Pre-WW2, sentences for even (rare) violent crimes were often more lenient (superficially) than they are now. Bank robbery etc. However, the prisons were *far* harsher then, on the whole.
The problem Britain now has is that the perception is that almost everything, even an offence of violence, or breach of trust embezzlement, will result in a “let-off”, more or less. That does weaken social order.
These are not-easy questions.
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Very good observations Ian. Yes, the social order in the UK and the USA has been destroyed. I do not know of any Western countries with such high rates of crime and a useless police force (particularly in the UK). Obviously, all this is part and parcel of the awful decadence of the White race.
The German thinker/philosopher Oswald Spengler saw this with remarkable clarity slightly more than 100 years ago. However, he did not take into consideration the Jewish role in “die Untergang des Abendlandes”; something for which he was rightly criticized by Alfred Rosenberg.
Still, his monumental work, “The Decadence of the West” is very important and valuable.
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Claudius:
I once had a fine collector’s edition of (as it is usually called in the Anglophone countries) The Decline of the West. Specially bound dark blue leather, and double-size. In English. From about 1925. Sadly lost, along with most of my library, 14 years ago.
UK society is holding together mainly via almost-dissolved glue: race, class, habit, custom, convention, principles etc. A big jolt, and the whole country would fall to pieces.
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Looks like Bournemouth is becoming a real dump then! Perhaps those polling companies who predict Bournemouth East will fall to Labour at the next election are being accurate in their estimates?
The story is pretty much the same all the time. If foreign types start to move in, said town normally gets to have a crime problem, then other foreigners move in and a Tory town goes to pot and starts to vote Labour in sufficient numbers for a Labour council to be elected and eventually a Labour MP as well.
Labour always represents the excrement holes.
The moral of this story is either vote Tory to scare these foreign types off or, if you really can’t stand them vote Lib Dem or not at all.
Voting Labour only encourages these types to move to a nice town and then ruin it.
To think that as recently as 1980’s and 1990’s the Tories used to regularly hold their party conferences in Bournemouth.
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John:
A former Marines officer I once knew told me (30 years ago) that the southern/southwest coastal towns such as Poole and Bournemouth were declining partly because many younger (and other) persons on the dole in horrible places such as Manchester, Liverpool etc were migrating south, and that they were relocating because, if you are going to be on the dole and/or engaged in petty criminal activity, you may as well do it in a relatively pleasant town where the weather is milder etc.
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With crime being so rampant we need to model our criminal justice system in the direction of Singapore if not exactly then certainly more in that direction.
Criminal miscreants get stern treatment from their courts:
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime
They have hung two drug dealers in the last week and another drug dealing scumbag is due to get a one way bungee jump at 6.00 AM sharp in Changi Prison tomorrow. That will make for five executions this year.
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Good observations John. You should be in charge of the Home Office (or, at least, someone like you).
To put it simply, if the punishment does not fit the crime, the deterrent does not exist and the scumbags who are naturally predisposed to commit all kind of crimes feel encouraged to do so knowing that: (A) The police is useless (B) The legal system is very much the same (C) The sentences are ridiculously lenient.
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This guide to sentencing policy in Singapore and the principles which underline it is an interesting read:
https://www.agc.gov.sg/legal-processes/sentencing-in-singapore
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Yes, limited prison capacity is being misused to imprison many who simply should not be there. This country should hang its head in shame for having political prisoners. Its utterly hypocritical for us to criticise Putin and his regime when we also have political prisoners.
Prisons are expensive and should be used to house inmates that are a real danger to the public. Incarceration is supposed to be utilised to incapacitate people who pose a dangerous threat to society so that they can’t continue to commit criminal acts on the outside and harm yet more people.
I suppose the self-proclaimed ‘party of law and order’ has sacked prison officers, failed to invest in probation services, as well as defunding the police and the courts so that the judicial system has ground to a virtual halt.
No point in having tougher sentences if you can’t catch criminals in the first place due to less police officers being employed etc.
Justice delayed is justice denied as the saying goes.
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Still, why do we need police officers, prison officers, probation officers, courts with judges and magistrates, immigration officers and a Border Force?
These are just very expensive elements of the state itself and hey, ho, libertarians like the ‘modern’ Conservative Party (whatever nonsense that is supposed to mean) should do away with them in the interests of ‘reducing the size of the state’ and saving money to give away as tax cuts even though these public services are the most vital elements of the state and without which no real state can exist in the first place.
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John:
The System requires the bare minimum of such State servants in order to maintain its power, but priority is given to protection of System coinspirators (MPs, the “royals”, “celebrities” etc), not the general public. Same as with transport. The ultra wealthy travel (as does Sunak) everywhere by helicopter, private jet etc, so roads are not a priority (and they have big Jeeps and Range Rovers etc to cushion them for any extra part of the journey). Trains are of little interest. Buses likewise.
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How much of a contribution to global emissions do helicopters make? I know that private jets in particular are bad in this respect as are plane journeys. People who use planes regularly and private jets in particular should be penalised rather than ordinary holidaymakers who only use them once or twice a year.
Having a party leader and PM journeying around in private helicopters and private jets all the time is setting a very bad example to we lowly plebs, is very expensive to the public purse and simply doesn’t come across well in a cost of living crisis.
Politics is about 70% substance and 30% image. The optics of this are appalling. It really is no wonder they have a significant polling deficit of around 19% on average.
Also, why does he get so ratty with journalists about this when he is interviewed about it? Losing your cool in public is not good for any politician let alone an unelected PM.
This is going to be exceptionally difficult to turn around and will be even more so with that type of behavior:
https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk
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John:
Your proportions are wrong. In contemporary UK politics, image is 99%, substance 1%, thanks initially to Blair, but mainly since then to David Cameron-Levita, George Osborne, Iain Dunce Duncan Smith, Priti Patel, Suella Braverman, Boris Idiot and many others.
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Yes, the proportions are worse than I said. Politics has always been like that but in this country in particular it has got worse since the Blair war criminal creature came onto the scene to such disastrous effect in 1994.
Now, even the 1% substance figure is dwindling.
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Thank you! I would like to think I would make for quite a good Home Secretary. Yes, a sufficent deterrent element to sentencing policy is not a luxury extra but vitally important.😃😃😃
If we introduced hanging for drug dealers as in Hang ’em High City/’Disneyland with the Death Penalty’ ie Singapore I would estimate that the hangman’s noose would have to be used thousands or hundreds of times for the first year or so but the message to potential traffickers would be a strong one and would get through to them pretty quickly after that thereby enabling us to reduce actual executions to a few dozen or less per year soon afterwards.
Common humanity would then reign and this scourge of drug dealing would start to be tackled seriously, the safety and security of law abiding people in society as a whole would be improved and a significant contributory factor to other crimes being committed ie drug abuse would be lessened.
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Of course, just as in Singapore, executing drug dealers by itself wouldn’t work so the death penalty would have to form, as it does there, a part of a comprehensive multi-pronged approach to the drug abuse situation involving virtually the entire society using tough sentences for traffickers with rigorous enforcement of them, anti-drug abuse education in schools and in society more generally, stringent border controls so that fewer drugs enter the country for the traffickers to distribute, etc.
https://www.cnb.gov.sg
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