Re: Charles Clarke and foreign prisoners

In article <44536378$0$2587$db0fefd9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Adam says...
Now don't get me wrong here. I'm no fan of Charles Clarke. I think he's an
evil *** who should certainly resign for a great number of reasons.

But unless I'm missing something, I can't see how this latest business with
the foreign prisoners should be another reason for him to go. As I
understand it, all these prisoners had already served their sentences before
they were released. If they weren't foreign, they would just be released at
the end of their sentences and that would be the end of it. Many of them
would re-offend, but that's just what happens when criminals get out of
prison. Surely having a few foreign criminals who have served their
sentences doesn't put anyone at appreciably greater risk than all the
British criminals who have served their sentences?

Or am I missing something?

Adam



yes.

This isn't about Clarke. As much as Cameron apologists are trying to
trap him for it, it's about fat, lazy and incompetent civil servant
culture. The same high income sector who are generally Tory to a man.

The head of the department who bungled this was recently promoted. The
civil service is a job-for-life club where incompetence is rewarded and
lack of performance a virtue.

Clarke didn't let those people back into the community without any
follow-up to their sentence. Civil servants did. It's those bungling,
overpaid and incompetent people who need deporting from their cushy
offices, pensions and private healthcare plans.

FR
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