Friday 6 April 2012

Allow Me The Indulgence Of A Little Heresy…

…but maybe we’ve got it all wrong. Maybe it’s not the EU that’s at fault.

Maybe it’s really our own elected officials and public servants? Maybe, as Patently points out, natural selection is simply at work?

Take the case of the fortuitously-departed Toulouse murderer’s wretched father (a convicted drug dealer):
Mohamed Benalel Merah has said he wants to bury his son, who reportedly had joint French and Algerian citizenship, in Algeria.

His
accusation that the French authorities deliberately chose to kill his son rather than capture him has caused indignation in Paris.
Now, in the UK, this would result in a ‘no comment’ or an expression of sympathy from politicians.

Not so in France:
"If I were the father of such a monster, I would shut my mouth in shame," said French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe.
Encore, encore!

Meanwhile, as Teresa ‘Kitten Heels’ May wrestles with the tricky problem of Abu Qatada and the ECHR refusal to let us deport him, Italy just shrugs and boots out their guy anyway:
… Italy was yesterday hit with nothing more than a relatively small financial penalty after it defied a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights and deported an Islamic fundamentalist to Tunisia.
The court, which had said the man could not be removed until his case had been heard in full, only awarded damages and made no order for Rome to retrieve the man and take him back.
Viva!

It seems that it’s not just ministers at fault now, though. Even when they want to resolve issues, they are stymied by the civil servants nominally under their control:
The Government's own experts have said David Cameron's plans to toughen punishments for Britain's most prolific offenders could force crime up, not down.

In a fresh embarrassment for the Prime Minister his officials are unconvinced by his proposals to give more electronic tags and longer curfews to the thousands of career criminals currently being let off with a slap on the wrist.
Their job isn’t to be convinced; it’s simply to carry out his wishes! We elected him, not them!
'Given a limit on the overall level of resources available for probation services, and the need for sentences to remain proportionate to the seriousness of the offending, delivering top end community orders may cause a number of primarily rehabilitative requirements to be substituted for primarily punitive ones,' it says.
Get with the programme – no-one gives a damn for ‘rehabilitation’. We’ve had years of it, and it hasn’t worked.

Time to try punishment again. And time to elect people who don’t simply shrug and say ‘Nothing I can do – EU rules, y’see…’.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

"If I were the father of such a monster, I would shut my mouth in shame," said French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe.

You are right - over here the lefty twats would be consulting community leaders, making political capital,scoring points and spunking millions in more grants, more workshops, more victimhood enhancing DJ/Selecta courses and more power to race-mongering fuckwits.

Got to love the French (and the Italians in this instance) - they are proud of being French and take no account of racial origin in counting citizens.

Time for sentences given to be served in full, life to mean life, build more prisons, outsource some to the Congo and Somalia, get out of the ECHR and free the judges to sentence independently of guidelines - monitoring the loony ones of course.

swanseajock said...

I am very anti-EU, but I have to agree that it is our craven politicians and law makers who will not stand up the anyone. Kick Abu Qatada and his type out and "worry" about his legal action regarding his "Human Rights" when they are in the foreign prisons that they should have been in a long time ago

blueknight said...

Because the Human Rights Act is open to interpretation and the likes of Cherie Blair make a nice living from making challenges under it.
Does something like that happen in France and Italy?

JuliaM said...

"Got to love the French (and the Italians in this instance) - they are proud of being French and take no account of racial origin in counting citizens."

If we did the same, we'd undoubtedly have fewer issues. But there's now too much of an industry involved.

"I am very anti-EU, but I have to agree that it is our craven politicians and law makers who will not stand up..."

Ditto!

"Does something like that happen in France and Italy?"

Human nature being what it is, I suspect it must, but they seem to have far, far less traction. I wonder why?