When will judges consider vile paedophiles’ sick crimes ‘serious’?
Joke justice
THE new sentencing review panel, briefed to slash the prison population, must command public respect.
That will never happen unless our worst criminals, including online paedophiles, are locked up.
A few lesser crooks can perhaps be adequately punished in the community and rehabilitated.
But too many truly appalling offenders are already spared jail.
The public will not tolerate an even more liberal regime.
BBC veteran Huw Edwards walked free despite possessing the worst class of child abuse images.
So, only yesterday, did another creature who shared clips of newborns being raped.
These vile individuals fuel a repugnant global trade destroying children’s lives.
Yet neither was judged a “danger”.
The Sun’s Keep Our Kids Safe campaign wants such men automatically jailed.
And National Crime Agency boss Graeme Biggar agrees that sentences ARE too lenient on online paedos.
So we have a question for the Justice Ministry panel when it vows to ensure prison still punishes “serious offenders”.
When will judges consider these perverts’ sick crimes “serious”?
Migrant woe
A STAGGERING new figure exposes the Tories’ grotesque failure on immigration.
Voters were already screaming for border controls when net migration topped 250,000 a year.
The 2016 Brexit vote gave us that power and much else.
Except last year’s total was three times that at 746,900, the highest one-year percentage rise of ANY major nation.
The Tories, like Tony Blair, convinced themselves migrant workers are an unalloyed gift for the economy.
It is not so.
Not when numbers soar to mind-boggling levels in a country paralysed by archaic planning laws and Nimbyism instead of building the infrastructure such a population surge needs.
Small wonder public services are crumbling.
Rishi Sunak belatedly tightened the rules, so numbers may have peaked.
Keir Starmer MUST get them way down.
No Minister
THREE cheers for a Labour Minister with the bottle to tell the unions “No”.
Civil servants in the PCS union want a four-day week with no loss of pay — and have concocted fantasy savings they claim would result.
Public sector productivity is dismal enough without staff spending less time in the office and more in bed.
And Pensions Minister Emma Reynolds is commendably having none of this little grift.
Yesterday she told them “we’re not living in the 1970s” — when a three-day week was imposed.
That will come as a huge disappointment to the brothers.
They recall that bleak, strike-torn decade as a golden era with their predecessors drunk on unelected power.
Let’s never relive it.