I fought the law, and the law won.

It’s quite often that I moan about politics and the law, but rarely that I write about it, as in my world, time is often spent pondering the world of fluffiness. But, this morning, I have awoken early, dropped my phone in a cup of water (I know, who drops a phone in a cup of water) and I am cut off from the rest of the world. So therefore, I have decided to use the time connecting in a different way. Yes, I could have used the time to do the washing up, my laundry or begin painting my lounge (my mission for this weekend), but meh...

Yesterday the news reported that Karen Matthews has been released from prison after serving only half of her sentence (for the vile kidnapping of her daughter); not only that, but the Daily Mail wrote ‘Matthews was given a full makeover including a new hairstyle before her release to prevent her being recognised in the street’. Well, isn’t that jolly lovely - Yet another criminal who is clearly made to repent for her crimes. What message is this sending out? Break the law, commit a crime, and get a new hairdo. Yes, completely deterred – well done British justice system. Oh, and as you can’t hear me ranting in my lounge right this second, please read with a slight hint of sarcasm.

Maxine Carr is yet another example of a heinous criminal (the soham murders) that benefits from the tax payers pocket. It cost £250,000 to provide her with a new identity, including a new passport. Now, when I got married, I had to pay nearly £100 just to update my surname on my passport, the government didn’t offer to help me pay the fee. After my divorce, I considered returning to my maiden name, which would mean another £100 to change my passport back. So honest, hard working and law abiding citizens pick up their own bills, whilst evil, black hearted sadists get it paid for them...and people wonder why there is nothing ‘great’ about Britain anymore.

Things in my world are pretty black and white most of the time, which I know is not the best way to be. However, if you commit a crime that encroaches on another person’s human rights, you deserve to have yours taken away. Why should we pay to protect these criminals? I don’t remember receiving a letter from Scotland yard asking if I mind contributing to these (insert very bad word here)’s rehoming.

When I was younger, an ex of mine was found in my parents front garden with a knife at stupid o’clock in the morning. Of course he was arrested, but I was pretty freaked out. When calling the police to find out if he had been released, I was told that I wasn’t allowed to know, as that would be against his human rights. The fact he had a knife and was stalking underneath my parent’s car, in the early hours of the morning, was clearly acceptable behaviour.

There are no deterrents to crime. If you murder someone, and take their life, you are generally looking at ten years prison sentence. After all, we like to reward ‘good behaviour’ with early release. Good Behaviour? If someone has ended anothers life, what possible good behaviour can redeem this factor? Take Jon Venables for example. He was released on lifelong parole for the murder of Jamie Bulger, only to be rearrested years later for Child Pornography. Reoffending criminals are costing the tax payer £10 billion a year, and yet the justice system fails to learn from this.

The UK’s economy is in a disastrous state. Law abiding and hard working citizens are struggling to pay their own bills. The cost of petrol is going through the roof, rendering many helpless without their transport. The cost of groceries has rocketed, with even ‘Tesco’ now being considered an expensive option. Wages have not reflected the cost of living increase, with many incomes earning the same as they did three years ago, but based on the rising costs, are now worst off. And yet, the only people to benefit in today’s world are:

a)    The criminals, who pay no bills to the state whilst kept her majesty’s pleasure.

b)    The job dodgers, who decide that working isn’t for them, as after all, why work when everything is given to you for free.

c)    The baby machines, who just keep popping out sprog after sprog. Figures for 2009, the latest year available, record 138 births to women who already had ten kids.  Two had their 16th child and one her 17th. Together, they could be raking in £22,000 a week – around £1.2million a year – in benefits.

d)    Non-travelling travellers, who when being moved on from an illegal site here in essex, were offered council homes, but decided that this was not enough. The fact that people on the waiting list for years cannot even get a home like these offered, is clearly not humble pie enough.

So excuse me, if I pay my taxes with gritted teeth, I don’t apologise that I have as much faith in the justice system as I do a cement swimming costume, but seriously, the government need to step in, stop pussy footing around the issues and actually attempt to make Great Britain ‘great’ again.

Exhale held breath at this point.