Sentencing based on semi-formal Government guidelines in the wake of the recent riots clearly illustrates Tory double standards insofar as it may relate to the social class of the convicted; Tories, of course, being seen as simply reverting to type.
The news that David “Dhimmi” Cameron has defended courts for handing out tough sentences to those convicted of involvement in the recent riots will surprise no one; talking tough on crime is long established Tory deceit.
The Tory “hang ‘em and flog ‘em” brigade comes much to the fore when those at the receiving end of “justice” are working (or “not-working”) class; yet where is the Tory outrage when the accused are white or ermine collared?
And who is Dhimmi Cameron – former Bullingdon Club member – to lecture anyone on loutish behaviour anyway?
Now, whilst neither defending criminality nor criminals, it is illuminating comparing and contrasting the judicial system’s treatment of “Honourable Lords and Members” to its treatment of the “lower orders”.
The evidence suggests that sentencing all too often reflects social status rather than anti-social offence; that is, who you are – rather than the gravity of your crime, being a determining factor in the severity of the sentence handed down.
The British “justice” system should concern itself with justice, meaning that justice not only needs to be done but seen to done, in a consistent and impartial manner.
However, from the examples that follow, it is evident that “justice” is subjective – particularly when political or peer pressure is exerted.
Example 1: Earlier this week mother-of-two Ursula Nevin, from Manchester, was jailed for five months for receiving a pair of shorts given to her after they had been looted from a city centre store.
Meanwhile, expenses cheat Jim Devine has been released from prison after serving just a quarter of his sentence.
The former Labour MP for Livingston, who was jailed for 16 months in March after being branded a liar by his trial judge, was released from Standford Hill prison in Kent.
Devine had spent four months behind bars after submitting false invoices totalling £8,385 between 2008 and 2009.
Example 2: Nicholas Robinson, 23, of Borough, south-east London, was jailed for six months for burglary.
He took a £3.50 case of water from a Lidl supermarket.
Meanwhile, former Labour Party MP Eric Illsley (Barnsley Central) was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment on 10 February 2011 for dishonestly claiming parliamentary expenses.
He was released just three months later in May.
Illsley pleaded guilty to £14,000 of expenses fraud relating to claims he made for his second home between 2005 and 2008.
Example 3: Anderson Fernandes, 22, was warned by a judge at Manchester Magistrates’ Court that he may face jail for stealing two scoops of ice cream.
He will be sentenced next week after admitting burglary.
Meanwhile, ex-Labour MP David Chaytor was jailed for 18 months for fraudulently claiming more than £20,000 in expenses.
Chaytor, 61, the former MP for Bury North, admitted three charges of false accounting. He submitted bogus invoices for IT consultancy work and claimed rent he never paid on homes owned by his family.
He was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment on 7 January 2011.
Chaytor was released from prison on 26 May 2011, having served just 4 months of the sentence.
Again earlier this week we learnt that two men were jailed for four years apiece for using Facebook to incite riots.
The pair, Jordan Blackshaw, 21,and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan, 22, both of Warrington, admitted using Facebook to incite disorder, although none actually resulted.
Meanwhile, former Labour Party MP Elliot Morley (Scunthorpe), who pleaded guilty in Southwark Crown Court to two counts of false accounting involving over £30,000, was sentenced in May to 16 months imprisonment; it is widely anticipated that he will be released during the autumn.
Furthermore, former Conservative peer Lord Taylor of Warwick was jailed in May for 12 months for falsely claiming £11,277 in parliamentary expenses.
Taylor, who was Britain’s first black Conservative peer and a former barrister and radio and TV presenter, listed his main residence as a home in Oxford, which was owned by his nephew, while he actually lived in a flat in Ealing, west London.
Pundits speculate that Taylor will not serve his full sentence and will be released in time to celebrate Christmas.
There is a very important point here.
If it is right and proper to sentence a person to 5 months imprisonment for receiving a pair of stolen shorts – probably having a value of less than £10, then how can 16 months be appropriate as a sentence for a former MP responsible for the theft of over £8,000?
Similarly, if a sentence of 6 months imprisonment is justified for the theft of £3.50 worth of mineral water, then why just a 12 month tariff for a former MP who stole over £14,000?
Where’s the proportionality, where’s the justice?
It well may be true that society needs to send out an unambiguous message to rioters and looters in the form of stiff sentences – but that is equally true (if not more so) in the case of those in positions of trust – such as politicians and “bankstas”.
What’s good for the working or “non-working” class goose is equally good for the white or ermine collared gander.
This is clearly a sentiment that David “Dhimmi” Cameron, of notorious Bullingdon Club infamy, doesn’t appreciate.
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Justice in this country stinks it depends on wich category you are in .If you are a politician,some one with money,some one with influence or of colour you can get away with murder.But if you are no one inperticular and white there is no justice at all.
Let’s also not forget the fraudsters still sitting in the House Of Greed.
Is it appropriate that a lad receives a referral order for stealing a bottle of wine from an already ransacked shop? Yes I think it probably is though reminiscent of a much earlier time.
But is it appropriate that the millionaire David Cameron steals from the taxpayer in order to have his wisteria cut or his mansion house mortgage paid. No. But what happened to him? Well nothing. In fact he is rewarded for his larceny.
During the riots I noticed one of the shops that was looted was a Bang and Oufsen outlet. The first thing that occurred to me was not how awful (as it was)but that they are only after a quality TV like they saw Gerald Kaufman charge the taxpayer at a cost of £9000 so he could keep up with the news as an MP. Gerald, you could have bought something for £100 from Tesco for that. But still he sits in Troughminster having been re elected by sheeple, some of whom will have rioted no doubt.
The biggest crooks still sit in the Houses Of Treason.
Some of us still remember Kenneth Clark being found out buying wine and charging it to the taxpayer.
Some background for the man in charge of Justice?
Them & us……..
No change there then,
& never will be as long as the
sheep continue to vote for them.
Like shooting yourself in both feet,
then trying to run a marathon….
& expecting to win.
The reasons for this complete lack comparisons for criminal offences is because in reality very little crime is punished. If it weren’t for the terrorist riots the sentences our MP’s were being awarded would really only be a grumbling point in the pub.
However our liberal elite (sic) having being used to not punishing people is now in dire panic as the public clearly don’t want just punishment they want retribution.
So we have this knee jerk panic of appeasment without comparing degrees of criminality and an ordered fair scale of punishment. Hence the absurdity you rightly point out.
Liberalism has been caught out for the insane sick ideology it is.
As we all know they are not fixing the root problem of our race orientated riots, instead they are disaffected ‘yoof’ riots….or ‘protests’ in the warped universe of the BBC.
My worry is that we will have lots of ‘stiff’ sentences handed out,but these will not stop the next round of riots and so the liberal elite and media can point their fingers at sentencing and the ‘right wing hang ’em and flog ’em brigade ( me ) and proclaim ‘look see it doesn’t work!’. ‘Let’s reach out to them’ they will cry, ‘let’s lavish money on them’, they will cry.
And so the cycle will continue, and Great Britain will continue in it’s travels toward third world status.
The Christian thing to do would be to bring back the death penalty, for murder, and flogging for violent delinquent youths, including those in the class-room. I will be giving chapter and verse on this in a forthcoming sermon, God-willing. It is essential for us to return to Christian standards if we are to return to a more sane and normal society. I pray God that we soon do.
Reverend, you are so right! “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth”, and the Ten Commandments, and the Bible itself, have been completely undermined in society by the rise to power of the avant-garde leftist “intellectual”. Heaven help us, they have even powerfully infiltrated the synods and Church councils. I would not be afraid to include the present Archbishops of Canterbury and York in that category too. This wave of socialist laissaz-faire completely ignores the fundamental fact of universal human nature, which is that strong morals and laws produce a strong society, weak morals and laws produce a weak society. I think our incredible payments of foreign aid are loving our enemy enough – we are now handing them the loaded gun to shoot us with! Jesus’s ministry in Jerusalem was prompted by a need to oppose corruption in the rulership of the temple. This is only my own opinion, but I firmly believe that if Jesus came back today, he would be on the side of the BNP, because to be otherwise is to hasten the downfall of Christianity, Christian society in Britain, and law-and-order itself – exactly as we are regularly having to witness all around us. And it’s getting worse by the year.