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  • WEDNESDAY APRIL 26 2006 12:00 PM

UK Home Secretary 'Loses' 1,023 prisoners

A UK politics story just to show our lot are as bunglingly useless as their American counterparts.

The UK's Home Secretary Charles Clarke (the man responsible for the safety of UK citizens) is being urged to resign (again) today after setting free 1,023 foreign prisoners instead of deporting them, as the law requires.



Clarke has lost something, and I'm not talking about his razor.

Of these 1,023, there are a number of murderers and rapists. Under UK law, foreign prisoners are immediately deported following completion of their sentences, provided those sentences last for 1 year or more. EU citizens are deported if they have served senetences of 2 years or more. Clarke's 'mishap' has left dangerous criminals on the streets, most likely unemployed and living off benefits paid for by law abiding tax payers.

But it's alright-


'I do apologise. I have apologised, I continue to do so'
-Charles Clarke



Well, that makes it OK then.

Clarke has also admitted that 288 of these offenders were released into the community after Clarke's office were informed that this was happening, and yet they failed to do anything about it. He also admits that his department have no idea where these people are.

Um... resign???

 

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mmm

mmm

I'm lost
March 2006

APR 26, 2006 12:06 PM

I love a news report with added ear wiggling! biggrin

Between him and Miss Condescension herself Patricia Hewittgetting a good NHS cornholing today, I really have become exhausted with this crappy excuse for a Government...

... good Lord, I've become my Father... surreal

Drusyle

Drusyle

HOPEFUL

Fort Lauderdale, FL

APR 26, 2006 12:14 PM

The ear wiggling did it for me too..

ZPO

ZPO

Roy, WA
July 2004

APR 26, 2006 12:15 PM

Oops...

If they are living on the dole shouldn't they be reasonably easy to track down?

FearTheReaper

FearTheReaper

NEWSWIRE

I'm lost

APR 26, 2006 12:29 PM

Flinty said:
I love a news report with added ear wiggling! biggrin

Between him and Miss Condescension herself Patricia Hewittgetting a good NHS cornholing today, I really have become exhausted with this crappy excuse for a Government...

... good Lord, I've become my Father... surreal



Made me laugh.

gothi

gothi

United Kingdom
December 2004

APR 26, 2006 12:34 PM

He's lost how many? Perhpas a look down the back of the sofa might produce some results whatever

There's a worrying trend in the UK for people to start talking about voting for the BNP and I'm talking about average people here, not right wing neo-nazi's.

This latest incident will only encourage more to start looking at the BNP as a viable candidate frown

attn_ho

attn_ho

Brooklyn, NY
February 2004

APR 26, 2006 12:44 PM

oi. thats craptacular news.

mmm

mmm

I'm lost
March 2006

APR 26, 2006 12:44 PM

gothi said:
He's lost how many? Perhpas a look down the back of the sofa might produce some results whatever

There's a worrying trend in the UK for people to start talking about voting for the BNP and I'm talking about average people here, not right wing neo-nazi's.

This latest incident will only encourage more to start looking at the BNP as a viable candidate frown



That's right. The extreme Right will often profit richly from the fumbling of the Middle-ground. It just seems that the only policy the Government is consistently upholding nowadays is that of fucking up wherever and whenever they can, then telling us to like it.


[Edited on Apr 26, 2006 by Flinty]

Nokturn

Nokturn

United Kingdom
April 2006

APR 26, 2006 01:31 PM

Yeah Gothi you're right- its very worrying, especially considering what almost happened in France a few years ago.
And another guy today who was let out on 'good behaviour' from his murder conviction was done for raping some kid like a day after he was released.

Good work Mr. Clarke.

If only he could waggle responsibility away as easily as he waggles his ears... skull

FrankMask

FrankMask

Saint Paul, MN
June 2003

APR 26, 2006 01:49 PM

I'm not much for public executions, but there is a small, violent kernel deep inside my heart that feels that incompetence like this should be rewarded by having a shot put through the back of your head, which would then be struck off and put on a pike outside the city gates as warning.

mat8drb

mat8drb

United Kingdom
October 2004

APR 26, 2006 02:10 PM

They're calling it Black Wednesday today: this loss of 288 prisoners since he took office, coupled with the already mentioned Patrica Hewitt's second failed speech this week to a group of disillusioned medical professionals and the shocking revelation that Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott had an affair with a woman 23 years his junior.

Shocking, because of the all of the people who were in Blair's government in 1997, would you have really picked out Robin Cook, David Blunkett and John Prescott as the studs? Er... No.

Nokturn

Nokturn

United Kingdom
April 2006

APR 26, 2006 02:22 PM

But Mat- the girls LOVE that two-jabs mentality.
If it moves... bang it! skull

TheQuestion

TheQuestion

United Kingdom
August 2005

APR 26, 2006 02:25 PM

It's the thought of all the Daily Mail readers clapping there hands and saying "I told you so" that makes me want to puke .

CaptainJonny

CaptainJonny

United Kingdom
April 2006

APR 26, 2006 02:25 PM

Good to know we're in safe hands......
That is utterly appalling.

tubaart

tubaart

Fulton, MO
November 2004

APR 26, 2006 02:33 PM

Interesting number 2**10 - 1 (not prime, though)

captainoats

captainoats

Bronxville, NY
September 2005

APR 26, 2006 02:56 PM

I'm amused by anything that proves your average European government is no less bumbling than its American counterpart. Maybe if I'm lucky, Silvio Berlusconi will give a press conference today,

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