THIS is Funny- £3000/Year for Wrongful Imprisonment

[Mr Manifesto]

David Blunkett, according to this (http://www.sundayherald.com/40592) article, thinks those who have been wrongfully imprisoned should be charged £3000 a year for the priveledge of being locked up. I mean, all that food and lodgings doesn't pay for itself, now, does it?

Someone tell me that the Sunday Herald makes this stuff up. I don't want to live in a world that has loonies like this in charge of the British Home Office.

[Matabiri]

Originally posted by Mr Manifesto
David Blunkett, according to this (http://www.sundayherald.com/40592) article, thinks those who have been wrongfully imprisoned should be charged £3000 a year for the priveledge of being locked up. I mean, all that food and lodgings doesn't pay for itself, now, does it?

Someone tell me that the Sunday Herald makes this stuff up. I don't want to live in a world that has loonies like this in charge of the British Home Office.

I think there's something about being Home Secretary that instantly turns people into evil, bigoted fascists.

The Blunkett-o-matic (http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/other/blunkett.php ) is not a joke. He could have said any one of these things.

[Tony]

That's fuct-up, If anything the government should be paying the wrongly imprisoned.

[iain]

Every time we have a new Home Secretary these days, I think he can't be as dodgy as the last one, and every time I'm proved wrong.

First we had Michael "something of the night about him" Howard. I thought he was bad until Jack "boot" Straw came along. Pah. Mere amateurs compared to David Blunkett.

[Jaggy Bunnet]

Isn't Britain Great?

Not sure which is worse:

The fact the Home Secretary wants to charge them for board and lodgings; or

The fact that the compensation paid for the mental trauma of spending 25 years in a cell is £0 (according to Paddy Hill on Radio 5 this morning). The only amount paid is what you could have earned if you weren't banged up - nothing for trauma, distress etc.

[Jaggy Bunnet]

Originally posted by Tony
That's fuct-up, If anything the government should be paying the wrongly imprisoned.

Wonder if the former Camp X-ray detainees will be getting a bill for their board and lodgings? :p

[Mr Manifesto]

Jack Straw- that's the guy who said don't give money to the homeless for their own sake, wasn't it?

[iain]

Originally posted by Jaggy Bunnet
Wonder if the former Camp X-ray detainees will be getting a bill for their board and lodgings? :p The accommodation was basic, but the personal valet service was superb.