Lunacy!

The Taxpayers Alliance recently quoted the Metro newspaper, which revealed guidance given to police rank and file not to register car vandalism as a crime. It's only a bit of minor damage or theft, after all!

Then why do we prosecute a driver suspected of dropping an apple core? This is obviously a great affront to the community, - quite dreadful, quite shocking! And why, asks the TPA, do we proceed against a disabled 59 year old widow, Gwyneth Lester, for £1,200 of unpaid council tax, with the likelihood of imprisonment again? (She spent 28 days in jail last year for non-payment.)

I see, - she is a serial offender, - the full power of the law must be thrown against her! She is a serial offender because she has been burgled eight times in two years. Perhaps she has a moral case that the police only want to take and not to protect?

All these details are features of the society we have created - of feral youngsters who do damage, but are allowed to get away with it, of drug addicts who burgle the weak to feed their habit, and get away with it. Our Society seems more concerned about a biodegradable apple core than the security of a handicapped woman. The target-driven police force might well themselves wish that it was different, but political correctness is their other boss. Finally we now pay such high taxes that a 59 year old widow now feels that she must flee the country because she is paying so much in tax and receiving so little in benefit that when she protests she is imprisoned.

In the end private property seems to matter less than that of the public, and crimes against the former matter less than those against the latter!