Re: Charles Clarke and foreign prisoners


"Flying Rat" <me9@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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

Couldn't disagree with any of that. But it's not really the point of my
original question.

Why is it a national scandal when foreign prisoners are released at the end
of their sentences, when British prisoners get released at the end of their
sentences every day and no-one seems to think there is anything out of the
ordinary about it? Is it just Daily-Mail fuelled racism to think that there
is something worse about having foreign ex-cons roaming the streets (which
seems to provoke outcry) than having British ex-cons roaming the streets
(which happens all the time and is just accepted as the way things are)? Or
is there something more to it than that?

Yes, the foreigners could, and maybe should, have been deported. But if they
are not deported, then I can't see how it creates a situation any worse than
what we have when our home-grown criminals are released at the end of their
sentences.

Adam


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