How lovely to see the happy crowds enjoying the splendid fireworks on the Thames on New Year's Eve! What I hope for 2012 is that we can be innovative in facing the problems it will certainly face us with.
We seem to hear of new scams all the time. Today it was that some people are buying up council flats and sub-letting them and making their pile that way. This is a criminal offence and those found guilty will face jail sentences.
Surely this is the time to stop using imprisonment as a punishment for this kind of thing? Every prisoner costs the taxpayer a great deal of money, and, what's more, when released, finds it harder, with such a record, to earn an honest penny. They should be fined, or do community service or some other punishment to fit the crime. Prison just doesn't make any sense except for dangerously violent people.
This blog is a plea for common sense in public policy. Our leaders don't seem to have any. They just make daft rules for us to follow. We need to assert our right to use our own good sense instead of ticking boxes which can only say 'yes' or 'no'.
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