Prisoners of Efficiency

In the wake of the accidental release of a child sex offender and (yet worse) brown asylum seeker, trade union officials and other criminals have very treacherously, ungratefully, antisemitically and un-Britishly presumed to warn prison authorities and His Majesty's Government about the state of the national punishment system. At least one convict due for release made an official complaint about the lack of any information as to where he was meant to live or how to contact his probation officer, while the prison officers' union even seems to think that individual staff members should not be blamed for systemic problems; and this despite someone conveniently low in the pecking order having already been suspended, quite possibly by those responsible for the paperwork in which the suspendee's error originated. Meanwhile, the Minister for Profitable Incarceration has put the blame on human error, rather than on the general running down of public services which the Conservatives and their little yellow chums accelerated past breaking point and which Team Starmer has no particular interest in reversing. The advantage of blaming human error is, of course, that it is soon to be eliminated along with immigrants and all other Bad Things by the introduction of the BlairCard™ digital panopticon and by the replacement of everyone on a fallible salary grade by AI bots powered from a Musk plagiarism hub.