Thread 29 Sunak: Borders, Barges and Bacteria

[DuncinToffee]

Thanks pointythings

previous thread
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4853484-thread-28-sunak-lords-ladies-and-lame-ducks?page=1

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66636347

"Every theft must be investigated"
Does she have any idea how many thefts get reported? There aren't enough police officers to investigate men using CSA images, but hey ho.

Honestly. This lot live in cloud cuckoo land

"She told BBC Breakfast that police "have the numbers" - and "this is about ensuring that those resources are properly diverted to what I call common-sense policing - back to basics policing"."

Ugh. Diverted from what? I bet somewhere she's started going on about "woke EDI initiatives"

They also seem to have forgotten they have been in government for 13 years again. The Home Sec making big announcements about how police are going to start investigating crime isn’t the positive they think it is.

That was a car crash for Braverman, like Sunak just rinse and repeat nonsense statements.

Stopping her illegal actions is now thwarthing justice, you can't make it up.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/27/children-reaching-uk-in-small-boats-sent-to-jail-for-adult-sex-offenders

bet Jenrick is in a state of euphoria over these reports. Is it his birthday?

we’ve become quite the sinister little island haven’t we?

Electronic tags have now been mentioned as well

I’ve just seen that and discovered that I’m still capable of outrage. 🤬

There is a thread on Braverman active, good thing I am going out.

Meeting up with Clav? 😉

Dressed as a greenpeace zombie

😂

I might pop over and fry their brains by asking if the Home Secretary thinks that other law breakers like Rishi Sunak should be locked up.

Too late. It’s gone pop.

Yes it looks like crime & punishment week.

We have 3,500 more police officers than in 2010 - despite a population increase.

The increase in recruitment is not spread evenly over the country and only a few police forces hit their recruitment targets. So we don't necessarily have all the officers we need where we need them.

Also - we've managed to more than half the number of PCSO's (ie those officers that focus on low level crime) from 16,918 to 8,263.

Special constsbles have dropped from 20,000 to 8,000.

And that's before we get in to the vast court backlog and terrible state of the court and prison systems generally.

Once again it's headlines over concrete actions.

Bugger. I’ve got 5 hrs on a coach to waste. Might start a new one. 😂

I was just reading through and then found I couldn't post. I didn't see anything particularly worthy of shutting it down, did I miss the good stuff?

I don't think it got to the good stuff but the build up was there

She doesn't want police being diverted into dealing with things like people having a mental health crisis, I think that's what she said. So they'll respond if someone nicks your mower but not if your teenager is having a complete mental breakdown and threatening to harm themselves.

Tbf, it’s a right PITA when you get home to find your house has been stolen.

I mean, yeah , I found the police useless when some old guy attached balloons to my house and made off with it.

'stop the balloons'

Someone put mine on a boat and tried to float it down the stream. Not enough water was quite effective at Stop the Boat.

Perhaps we could learn from this and drain the Channel?

He says that like it's some sort of novelty. No-one sane believes in anything else. What he is trying to signal, however, is that he's not too happy with people accused of crimes receiving a fair trial.

He might also help victims out a bit by funding the justice system adequately so that they don't have to wait years for cases to come to trial.

So now the failed lawyer claims to know more about policing than, er, the police?

WHY do we have to have this stupid, stupid person as Home Secretary? I feel so sorry for people working in the Home Office having to contend with someone so lacking in basic understanding of her job.