New sheriffs-in-town Boris Johnson and Priti Patel are tough on crime and Brits don’t mind
THE Tories are getting tough on crime, and not before time. Our streets increasingly feel like the Wild West.
Criminals need to know there’s a new sheriff in town — and between them, PM Boris and Home Secretary Priti Patel are certainly laying down the law.Boris’s announcements — more cops, more prison places, harsher sentences and proper stop and search — have provoked the usual squeals from left-wingers looking for something, anything, to batter the new PM with.
But it’s about time we started giving police the confidence, the resources and the powers to hold the Thin Blue Line. It is true that too many of our prisons seem to have become factories that simply make hardened criminals worse. It is also true that some young offenders don’t belong behind bars and would benefit instead from genuinelythe prison problemIt is possible to do both. And the winners will be not just ordinary hard-working families, but the communities most affected by crime.. Maybe so. But if this tough approach breeds results, we don’t mind.
It’s about time the regulator was given greater powers to tackle the Silicon Valley giants who profit from hosting abusive and clearly harmful videos.With every fresh outrage, they’ve pledged to “do better”. They’ve sat in front of parliamentary committees looking terribly apologetic, their PR advisers sat nearby to ensure their bosses give just the right answers to keep the pressure off for a bit.Once Ofcom is given the power to fine, it shouldn’t be shy of using it.
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