Undermining the Great British Deterrent

Even after all the healthy lynch-mob foaming over the recent public disorder, at least one judge has failed to get on-message when it comes to re-bigging Britain's brokenised society. A Manchester woman who slept through the riots but accepted an item of clothing stolen by her lodger was initially sentenced to five months in prison, apparently so that she could become the district judge's idea of a better role model for her children. However, the judge at her appeal has decided to make a pettifogging distinction between people who were present at the riots and did damage, and people who were not present at the riots and did not. This distinction is so insignificant as to have escaped notice in millions of mouth-hours put in over the past week by frothing moral arbiters from the scumbag press to the Home Office, who will now doubtless unite to protect the taxpayer from time-wasting procedures of this sort after future riots.