Post by buccaneer on Sept 14, 2024 9:11:26 GMT
Alice through the looking glass. He's looking to reward criminality now.
Can't get a house, do a bit of bird and the keys to a new house are yours!
Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, is always bursting with ingenious new policy ideas. But this latest scheme may be his most inspired yet.
He wants to let criminals jump the housing queue.
Apparently, the Mayor believes that prioritising former prisoners will make them so grateful, they won’t reoffend – thus cutting crime. A flawless plan.
Well, almost. Unfortunately, I fear that law-abiding Londoners may be a tiny bit miffed at being bumped to the back of the housing queue, just to appease convicted criminals.
And so, to get to the front, they’ll turn to crime themselves.
Thanks to Labour’s helpful new early release programme, it should be pretty painless. Commit crime, spend couple of days in cell, collect keys to new flat from Mayor. Job done.
Obviously they’ll need to avoid any crimes that would carry a lengthy sentence. For example, going on social media to post their opinions on asylum policy. Still, they should be fine if they just do something minor. Dealing Class A drugs, say. That should see them out of jail and into a new house in no time.
I was sorry to read, incidentally, that Diana Johnson, the minister for crime prevention, had her purse stolen this week at a conference on policing. Happily, I hear that Mr Khan has thought of a way to get it back.
He’s going to announce that, if the thief returns the purse, he or she will be given a penthouse in Chelsea.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/14/sadiq-khan-mad-new-plan-crime-insult-law-abiding-londoners/
Can't get a house, do a bit of bird and the keys to a new house are yours!
Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, is always bursting with ingenious new policy ideas. But this latest scheme may be his most inspired yet.
He wants to let criminals jump the housing queue.
Apparently, the Mayor believes that prioritising former prisoners will make them so grateful, they won’t reoffend – thus cutting crime. A flawless plan.
Well, almost. Unfortunately, I fear that law-abiding Londoners may be a tiny bit miffed at being bumped to the back of the housing queue, just to appease convicted criminals.
And so, to get to the front, they’ll turn to crime themselves.
Thanks to Labour’s helpful new early release programme, it should be pretty painless. Commit crime, spend couple of days in cell, collect keys to new flat from Mayor. Job done.
Obviously they’ll need to avoid any crimes that would carry a lengthy sentence. For example, going on social media to post their opinions on asylum policy. Still, they should be fine if they just do something minor. Dealing Class A drugs, say. That should see them out of jail and into a new house in no time.
I was sorry to read, incidentally, that Diana Johnson, the minister for crime prevention, had her purse stolen this week at a conference on policing. Happily, I hear that Mr Khan has thought of a way to get it back.
He’s going to announce that, if the thief returns the purse, he or she will be given a penthouse in Chelsea.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/14/sadiq-khan-mad-new-plan-crime-insult-law-abiding-londoners/
