Tories soft on Crime

[Gromit]

Kenneth Clarke, the Government's new Justice Secretary plans to send less people to prison. I totally agree with this but I am a yoghurt knitting looney leftie Pinko.

It seems to have gone down less well with Conservative leaders and presumably with Tory voters.

// Senior Tories are privately furious about being seen as soft on crime. Backbencher Philip Davies said: "Lots of Conservative supporters will feel very disappointed. Lots feel it's wrong. Many voted Conservative on the basis we'd send more people to prison, not fewer." //

http://www.mirror.co....373811/#ixzz0sQbWlFab

Do ABers who voted Tory feel betrayed by this policy, or is it just common sense?

[anotheoldgit]

Please pay attention Gromit.

bibblebub, while supporting the Mirror's report, had the nerve to accused the Daily Mail of minimising the same story to protect their chums in power.

I merely pointed out that the Daily Mail were not protecting their chums in power, on the contrary they were more vitriolic and produced a much more in depth criticism of their 'so called chums' than the Mirror did.

[modeller]

What's all this nonsense about Victorian Britain. Our society is not Victorian and our prisons are not Victorian. So why keep banging on about it there is no comparision.
In Victorian days many people had no choice but to turn to crime in order to survive.
Today with our welfare state there is no need to turn to crime to survive . Greed, Drug Addiction ,Illiteracy ,Mental Problems etc. may all be reasons for committing crime but the need to survive as in Victorian days is not an issue.