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Politics, Covid19 and Brexit
Colin Pitchfork
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<blockquote data-quote="Danllan" data-source="post: 7658628" data-attributes="member: 8735"><p>The fact is that poll after poll shows a clear majority of the electorate <u>do</u> want there to be a capital sentencing option, but our MPs know better... or did. We couldn't have a capital option while a member of the EU, we now can and, if a sufficient number of MPs pull their act together we may get it again. But note I use the word 'option', rather than it being a mandatory thing.</p><p></p><p>As for Parole Boards... getting things entirely wrong, year in year out, between <u>one</u> <u>in</u> <u><span style="font-size: 15px">twenty</span></u> and <u>one</u> <u>in</u> <u>ten</u> times is an appalling rate! And it's one that would most certainly see a Barrister disbarred or a Doctor struck off - I can't see how they should be treated any differently when their wrong decisions affect so many lives and even see some ended.</p><p></p><p>Would you be happy to see your children cross a bridge or using a plane, knowing that its likelihood of catastrophically failing was between five and ten percent? Put like that, their failings become far more obvious. This is another reason that I advocate for a life sentence to be just that; it would remove the Parole Boards and their awful record from the equation altogether.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I'm not one for the word 'populist', it generally seems to mean a politician who advocates something that most people want, but that the commentator / critic doesn't.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Danllan, post: 7658628, member: 8735"] The fact is that poll after poll shows a clear majority of the electorate [U]do[/U] want there to be a capital sentencing option, but our MPs know better... or did. We couldn't have a capital option while a member of the EU, we now can and, if a sufficient number of MPs pull their act together we may get it again. But note I use the word 'option', rather than it being a mandatory thing. As for Parole Boards... getting things entirely wrong, year in year out, between [U]one[/U] [U]in[/U] [U][SIZE=4]twenty[/SIZE][/U] and [U]one[/U] [U]in[/U] [U]ten[/U] times is an appalling rate! And it's one that would most certainly see a Barrister disbarred or a Doctor struck off - I can't see how they should be treated any differently when their wrong decisions affect so many lives and even see some ended. Would you be happy to see your children cross a bridge or using a plane, knowing that its likelihood of catastrophically failing was between five and ten percent? Put like that, their failings become far more obvious. This is another reason that I advocate for a life sentence to be just that; it would remove the Parole Boards and their awful record from the equation altogether. Anyway, I'm not one for the word 'populist', it generally seems to mean a politician who advocates something that most people want, but that the commentator / critic doesn't. [/QUOTE]
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