[dighton]

Lords Woolf and Irvine desperately need to be burglarized.

[BlessedBeGod]

Un-damned-believable.

[anobjectivist]

Britain's new approach to lower crime rates:

Make crimes like burglarly unpunishable!

I bet they can't wait until people can rape and pillage without being labeled "criminal."

[ECM]

"The more crowded prisons become the less able they are to educate and to deal with the causes of crime.”

Ahahahahahahahaha!!!

[Consort]

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

"I don’t accept that people are disturbed at first-time burglars or even second-time burglars..."

Oh, really? Send them to my house and we'll let Lord Irvine see how many holes I put into them with my .44 magnum. Burglars don't get a pass at my house.

[ao98]

Incredible,

Lord Chancellor's Department HQ: general.queries@lcdhq.gsi.gov.uk
Court Service: customerservice@courtservice.gsi.gov.uk

Selborne House
54-60 Victoria Street
London SW1E 6QW, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44-(0)20-7210 8500

[RicocheT]

Lords Woolf and Irvine have seen "A Clockwork Orange" a number of times and enjoyed it immensely.

[APBaer]

But Lord Irvine *IS* a burglar:

"Scores of works will be removed to decorate Lord Irvine's luxurious official Palace of Westminster residence which he will move into in April following refurbishments worth £650,000.

Earlier this week it emerged that £189,000 had so far been spent on furnishings. But the "looting" has been condemned by art critics and has infuriated political parties."
BBC
Feb. 20 1998
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/58674.stm

[neutrino]

“I don’t accept that people are disturbed at first-time burglars or even second-time burglars - where there are no aggravated elements in the burglary - not going to prison.”

If his meaning were that the first time burglar wouldn't make it to prison, I might agree; alas, I fear that isn't his meaning at all.

[BlazingArizona]

Lords Woolf and Irvine desperately need to be burglarized.

You have to have once been British to really understand what's going on here: the class system at work. Lords W & I are the equivalent of our Beverly Hills elite - except that to gain their exalted status, they didn't even need the minimal talent it takes to star in a few action movies or get lucky on an insider-trading deal. Woolf & Irvine live in places shielded from crime by battalions of bobbies - who are now armed, because that's what it takes to shield the rich in today's London.

"Tabloid readers" is British liberal shorthand for working-class white conservatives, the equivalent of "redneck". Lords Woolf & Irvine are using their pet burglars to conduct a fox hunt, with the "tabloid readers" as prey.