Jailtime for Murder now reduced to Two Years in the UK

We have now had several warm sunny days in a row here in South Gloucestershire in the good old Dis-United Kingdom - enough to induce nostalgia about rain in many residents. Despite the urge to reminisce about the joy of dull grey rainy normal English weather, Nosher and I were hard at work getting on with planting out this year's crops.
Later, whilst sat on our old deckchairs outside Nosher's shed, we enjoyed a glass of home-made parsnip wine and ruminated on the issues of the day.
'Did you hear that two thuggish yobs have been given four years' detention for murdering a man?' said Nosher.
'Yep, that means they'll be out in two years, free to murder again, having learned only that an innocent human life is now worth next to nothing' I replied. 'They will have gone inside as smirking gloating yobs and come out as violent ruthless bullies who will feel free to terrorise society until they are caught and locked up again. That's how our so-called Justice system now operates.'
'Criminals are now given more jailtime for fraud than for murder' Nosher went on 'which demonstrates the priorities of the cynical incompetent idiots who rule over us.'
I thought back to my childhood in the 1950s and 60s. In those days the trendy pseudo-liberals were telling us the world would be a much better and nicer place if only we were kind to criminals and stopped punishing them so much.
And as a result we now inhabit a country in which two teenage thugs can kill a man over a discarded chocolate bar, and for their pains they get sent to a free hotel for two years, where they will enjoy better leisure facilities than they had access to on the outside (this due to our stupid human rights legislation under which criminals have more rights than their victims).
This is the reality in the Dis-United Kingdom today. Yobs and thugs rule our streets, and our idiot and often dishonest politicians keep rolling out their standard lie that life is getting better all the time. For them possibly, but not for the rest of us.
'I don't know how Jack Straw, our current Minister for Injustice, can sleep at night' I thought out loud. Nosher gave me his characteristic 'you're an idiot' look.
'Jack Straw oozes fake sincerity from every skin pore' he said 'and almost complete indifference for ordinary people out of every other bodily orifice. He talks the now standard politico-speak, which when translated into ordinary English, means "I'm in charge, and you plebs may as well get used to it, as me and my rich friends do very well out of policies specifically designed to make our lives easier, whilst we don't give a tinker's cuss for the rest of you". That's what English politics is now all about. Greed and indifference. And lies.' Nosher ended on a downbeat note.
We sat in silence for a while, enjoying the warm sunshine and watching our crops silently growing.
'Unless this country starts producing politicians who aren't idiots' I commented, 'who have civilised values and who understand human nature, then this country will eventually become a hell-hole as violent gangs of thugs take over society and obnoxious yobs roam the streets attacking anyone at will. The rich will live in secure compounds, whilst the rest of us innocent law-abiding citizens will pay punitive taxes for the privilege of being terrorised and murdered. That's where our society is now headed for, unless something is done to change things for the better. It's almost enough to make you think that God is a terrorist.'
'Well, I wouldn't bet on the current crop of politicians doing anything effective - they're either bleeding-heart liberals who will make things even worse, or they're in bed with the rich - or both at the same time' said Nosher 'we're doomed, doomed I say, doomed!'
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