Crime & Punishment and the hypocrisy of the liberal left

They're a funny bunch, lefties. They love nothing more than to push their chests our and strut around like peacocks, telling us how 'progressive' and intellectually 'forward thinking' they are on ways to stop crime and 'rehabilitate' the misunderstood (read: criminal scum). Yet, there are always exceptions to the lefty rules.

Under the politicised Home Office since Labour got in, we've seen vast sums of money go to 'consultants' and hand picked 'experts' and University Professors who have put crime under the microscope with the aim of finding out why people commit crime. Any outcome is possible for the government, except one: that human nature is such that there will always be people who, in the absence of a deterrent, will fuck people over.

We've had restorative justice, we've had tagging, community sentencing, money pumped into education and work placements, we've had lighter sentencing and all the usual liberal left shibboleths - all these 'solutions' have come out to play.

The outcome? Obvious. It's been an abject failure and Britain is now one of the most violent countries in Europe, with more recorded violent crime than South Africa and with a society that is bereft of civility. The country is breaking up before our eyes, and all Labour can do now is stick their collective head in the sand and pretend it isn't happening. God forbid that right wing Tories were right all along!