UK Govt. Announces Crime Rate Down - So Why Are Our Prisons More Overcrowded Than Ever?

Yes, it's official.
The latest Home Office crime figures show that overall crime is down, although they do have the honesty to admit that violent crime is still rising.
At the same time prison overcrowding has reached such extremes that more and more inmates are being released early, because otherwise there'd be standing room only (which would go against their human rights, of course).
Do our politicians think we're all cretins?
A rising prison population (against the backdrop of a rapidly increasing use of community sentences) cannot possibly be reconciled with claims that the crime rate is falling. Even allowing for the fact that those convicted of violent crimes are likely to get longer sentences than your average shoplifter, this does not account for the disparity.
The only possible rational conclusion is that the crime figures have been fiddled in some way.
In an age when democratic politicians and their henchmen have taken upon themselves the role of deciding what the 'truth' should be for the rest of us, this should come as no surprise.
After ten years of Blair and Campbell spinning themselves into the never-never land of made-up reality, it is entirely predictable that Blair's long-time sidekick Gordon Brown should be entirely at ease with running government in the same disreputable manner.
Are we fooled? Not a bit of it!
Would Dave 'The People's Toff' Cameron manage things any differently?
Somehow I doubt it, but we will have to wait until after the next general election to find out. If Brown wins we might as well all jump into the North Sea and be done with it.
Meanwhile, those of us who still retain any sense of dignity and self-respect try to ignore the precipitious decline into barbarity that now characterises our country, as we look in disbelief at the impaired mental abilities of those people who think they're running the place. Conceit and self-deceit have never sat more happily on the shoulders of self-interest.
More from overthegardenfence soon.