Conservative want higher sentences for failure to decrypt child pornography

[Ken Brown]

I think people are missing the point. A hanging and flogging call is the
traditional ritual prelude to a bid for leadership in the Tory party.
Especially when from someone who by Tory standards is regarded as wet. 
Letwin's comments weren't meant for the likes of us, or even for
paedophiles, but for the blue-rinsed vampires who will gather at the
Tory conference in a few weeks. If you can bear to, wind up the action
replay in your head and try to remember previous autumnal offerings from
Thatcher, Heseltine, Howard, Portillo, and whatever that bald
Yorkshireman was called. the present guy. (For some odd reason I can't
remember anything at all about Ian Duncan Smith from before he became
their parliamentary leader) All of them have stood up and ranted while
the BRVs drooled. And all we got for it was some rather odd laws about
music with repetitive beats. 

Even if Letwin understands the implications of the points he made, he
will have no intention of implementing them. As a policy proposal it is
no more to be taken seriously than the Old Labour habit of promising
nationalisation and welfare reform. Or the New Labour habit of promising
to ban hunting and cigarette advertising and do something about cars.  
Although as far as I can tell the redder & greener ends of the Labour
party have never actually believed their parliamentarians when they say
such things & it just makes them even more suspicious of the leadership,
while the BRVs seem to fall for it every time and get off on the hanging
& flogging promises. But then us lefties have always enjoyed criticising
our so-called leaders in public, while the Tories seem to think that
unseemly public displays of spineless loyalty are character-building.

Ken Brown

John R T Brazier wrote:
> 
> John Brazier wrote:
> >> Seriously, though, doesn't their think tank actually have
> >> anyone on board
> >> who can explain a few of these issues to them?
> 
> David responded accurately:
> > Since when have the facts or technical reality ever had anything to do
> > with the way such people formulate policy?
> 
> You're absolutely right, it's just that I now believe that we have the first
> example where (given the document is only 3 pages) the Opposition has
> produced a higher drivel/page ratio than even the Civil Service! Astounding!
> We don't need an election now, the 'Conservative Party' has as little grasp
> on reality as the 'Labour Party'.

And if you think this is the *first* example of such a thing you have
lived a very sheltered life! This is just business as usual

 
> TTFN
> 
> Prune