Originally published @ 8:38 am, Thu 8th Jul 2010
No wonder David Miliband got angry during Prime Minister's Questions yesterday.
Challenged on plans to cut funding to everything associated with tackling crime, David Cameron again said violent crime doubled under Labour, deliberately ignoring the change of counting methods that prompted such a leap in statistics. The incidence of such crime fell under Labour.
Yet Cameron still repeats the lie.
Flint faced indeed.
But not tough on crime or tough on the causes of crime.
The Governor of the renewed Nottingham gaol, now for local prisoners (Notts and Derbyshire), attended a Nottingham scrutiny committee to celebrate the investment and demonstrate a determination to improve the service further.
Some strong things were said about how more could be done to bring prisoners around and the potential for renewed inter-public agency working.
I wonder how such optimism will look in a year’s time, after the focus has been lost from ambition to making fewer ends meet.
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