In case you haven’t been paying attention to the Mail recently, our country has gone to the dogs. Crime is rife, morality is disappearing out the window and – heavens above – criminals are now winning the lottery, which simply won’t do.
But it’s all okay, because Big Blunkett and his merry band of lackeys are coming to save us! Apparently, the problem is that this whole “legal system” thing is just far too damned complicated, with all these different types of offences for when you do different things wrong – so why not just make every offense arrestable? Okay, it might seem a bit disproportionate for it to be arrestable if you, say, drop litter, but tt’ll just save so much hassle, y’know? And anyway, I’m sure we can trust the police to use these powers in a sensible, disciplined and non-discriminatory way.
Oooh! And! And! As everyone knows, drugs are the root of all evil in the world, so at the same time, we should test everyone (same article, further down the page), whether their offense is drug-related or not – nip the problem in the bud, so to speak! That’ll work!
Although it’s unfair that a rapist has one the lottery, he is perfectly entitled too. Life sucks.
But I don’t think we are entitled to say ex cons can’t win the lottery.
Whilst the Mail et al were all moaning about how unfair it all was that such a bad evil person could win the lottery, The Grauniad apparently had an article in it today explaining definition of the word ‘lottery’.
Gotta love the Guardian for stull like that.
Anyway, they might be out to arrest people for any crime these days, but will they ever catch Banksy?