Criminals To Be Given Softer Sentences

The genuinely conservative MP Philip Davies said to David Cameron:
“The millions of people who voted Conservative at the last election in order to make him Prime Minister did not do so in order to see a reduction in the number of people sent to prison or to see those criminals given softer sentences.
If he really wants to reduce the budget of the prison service, may I suggest that he starts by taking Sky TV away from the 4,000 prisoners who enjoy that luxury in their cells”.

Kenneth Clarke, Secretary of State for Injustice, smugly brushed off the public’s fear of crime as “out of proportion” and talked of prison cuts.
He is in a long tradition of gutless Tory ministers who have followed noisy promises to be tough on crime with reduced sentences and hamstrung police forces.