Let's Get Tough Again

Sentences of between twenty months and three years have been imposed upon some of those who recently allowed their legitimate and understandable concerns to get the better of them. One has fourteen previous convictions, including some for violence: a true testament to the effectiveness of the British penal system. All of them, and doubtless more to come, will spend a considerable period of their future in environments where violent disorder is a badge of prestige, to the literally immeasurable benefit of themselves and society at large. Fortunately, they are likely to be warehoused in conditions of sufficient squalor and boredom to ensure that whatever lessons they learn will not bring dishonour upon the cadres of the Conservative Party, the Farage Falange or any other branch of the Patriotic Legion of Sensible Moderation.