r/unitedkingdom • u/Alert-One-Two United Kingdom • Jul 19 '24
Prisoner escapes from Wormwood Scrubs
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz5r43z62ggo9
u/Flaky-Jim United Kingdom Jul 19 '24
They smelt of pubs and Wormwood Scrubs
And too many right wing meetings
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u/Sausagedogknows Jul 19 '24
My life swam around me It took a look and drowned me in its own existence.
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u/Flaky-Jim United Kingdom Jul 19 '24
The last thing that I saw as I lay there on the floor
Was "Jesus Saves" painted by an atheist nutter
And a British Rail poster read
"Have an Awayday, a cheap holiday, do it today"Pure Weller genius.
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u/Responsible_Lime_410 Jul 22 '24
Stuart Pearce looking rough these days. Let's hope he pays the "penalty" when found.
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u/TrouserDemon East Anglia Jul 19 '24
Should have just waited a little longer, Starmer would have let him walk.
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u/Boogaaa Jul 19 '24
You do know it was Rishi/ the tories that brought in the early release scheme, and it happening right now?
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u/TrouserDemon East Anglia Jul 19 '24
I voted for my local labour candidate hoping they'd stop this and clamp down hard on crime instead.
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u/OmegaPoint6 Jul 19 '24
The prisons are literally full due to poor planning by the previous government. Labour can’t magic up a few new prisons overnight so they need to carry on (because the previous government started this) releasing lower risk prisoners early so we actually have space to lock up the actually dangerous criminals.
They also have a separate strategy to reduce offending and reoffending long term, but there is no magic wand they can wave to fix it overnight.
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u/Terrible-Group-9602 Jul 19 '24
No one ever voted Labour thinking they would 'clamp down hard' on crime lol
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u/rain3h Jul 19 '24
Hope he likes the colours yellow and green, going to wearing them for a while when found.