A convicted drug dealer who has been freed six months early from his jail sentence says Sir Keir Starmer’s early release scheme has made him a “lifelong Labour voter”. The Mail has the story.
Djaber Benallaoua, 20, praised the “very good” Labour policy and boasted that he’s “gonna get lit” to celebrate his early freedom after leaving HMP Isis this morning.
He is one of 1,700 inmates being released this morning, with another of his fellow inmates insisting “I’m a good boy now” as he vowed never to go back behind bars.
At HMP Wandsworth the celebrations started early, with one group of people turning up with bottles of sparkling wine to greet people who were being set free.
The first inmates were released from prisons across the country this morning under plans to deal with prison overcrowding despite warnings that a third of those released will reoffend.
More than 5,000 are to be set loose over the next six weeks, with everyone eligible for release apart from violent criminals jailed for more than four years.
Martin Jones, the Chief Inspector of Probation, says that despite the good intentions of dealing with the crisis facing the criminal justice system, it is a “certainty” some will go on to commit more crimes.
And the Chief Inspector of Prison, Charlie Taylor, also expressed his misgivings that the overcrowding of jails had not been conducive to making them “less likely to reoffend when they come out” and that actually releasing them was “risky”.
As the sun rose in London today, the first inmate to be released from HMP Isis, Category C young offenders institution in Thamesmead, south east London, walked out with some being greeted by family members.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Victims are not being warned their attackers are being freed early under Labour’s mass prisoner release plan, Claire Waxman, the Victims’ Commissioner for London, has warned, adding some could be in danger if they do not have adequate support in place.
Stop Press 2: Watch Starmer explain the rationale behind the early release policy in a Downing Street briefing.
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The beginning or your problem, from where I’m sat, is that you’re a green.
Seeing bat-shit crazy eco-terrorists tearing each other apart is great fun.
Hoping to be eaten last by the crocodile?
We can never know when the push back started, as the issue became apparent to many or as the tomato sauce was being applied?
I’ll defend the death his right to say what he wants to say… but giving him money, that’s going too far.
Tricky one this. In general people should not lose their jobs for their beliefs, but in this case his expressed belief seems to contradict party policy, and as he had a senior position. That doesn’t seem tenable to me. Might bung in a few quid anyway as he’s clearly been treated badly and I can’t stand the Greens, and he has stuck his head above the parapet.
“The beginning or your problem, from where I’m sat, is that you’re a green.”
I have to agree LM.
And this is where I get stuck. I utterly deplore the Greens and sympathy for those caught in their internal squabbles is decidedly in short supply whatever the merits of the case.
Dr Ali will hopefully win his fight but this will change nothing as far as the Green eco nutters are concerned, they will carry on business as usual.
I will take a back of the pavilion seat on this one but best of luck to the Doctor.
Exactly my position.
According to its program, the Green party asserts that transmen are men and transwoman are women. If this guy disagrees with that, as he possibly does (he isn’t really clear on the issue), he shouldn’t aspire to be a spokesperson of this party as that’s fundamentally dishonest. Makes him a proper Green, I guess, but they’re only supposed to be dishonest to voters and not towards the party itself.
Yeah you’d think he’d want to resign if he hadn’t been fired.
Beware of Greens asking for gifts.
During the campaign for the last general election in Germany, the Greens stood on a platform which – among other things they’ve long since thrown overboard – demanded that delivery of military equipment into so-called crisis regions must immediately be stopped as part of moving towards a world with less armed conflicts. Obviously, in government, they’re now all Standing with Ukraine and have found a lot of good reasons why their erstwhile political principles are just not appropriate anymore.
According to his self-accusation, this guy has been a member of a political party which demands mandatory ‘progressive’ sex education starting as soon as the state can lay its hands on somebodies children and with no opportunity for parents to effectively disagree with the Green views on this topic, for 20 years. If he found nothing wrong with the idea that the state is to ensure that the most intimate aspects of the lives of its citizens confirm with the proper dogma during all this time, he doesn’t need to complain about authoritarianism now.
The private is not political. That’s why it’s called private.
Maybe. Is he not entitled to change his mind though?
I’ve just spent an hour or so browsing through the Green Party 2019 Manifesto. No. I will not fund your case against the party or their defence against the case.
Tried to donate £10 but apparently the universe won’t let me.
Ah well.Green party member. Karma.
In a parallel case, descendants of Ernst Rōhm are looking for crowdfunding so they can take legal action against descendants of those who were unkind to Rōhm and his SA “Brownshirts” in “The Night of the Long Knives” in 1934.
Whilst unkindness is much to be criticised, I would rather take my money, stuff it up my arse and set fire to it, than to give a groat to a Green Party politician.
Toby is perhaps to be congratulated in offering “Free Speech” support to a leading GangGreen politician.
But this, I fear, will be akin to throwing, not buns but people into the jaws of a ravening crocodile, hoping to satisfy his hunger.
Some will suppose my comment above a bit harsh.
But consider to well known comment by Caroline Lucas MP that someone taking their family to Spain for a holiday is no better than someone randomly stabbing a stranger in the street. Consider also her not infrequent trips on the airplanes she wishes to deny to others.
Or perhaps consider the long and infamous career of “Danny the Red” Cohn-Bendit, long “Leader of the Green European Free Alliance” in the EU “Parliament”. Interesting that he has written (1976) and recounted (2013) accounts of his “incredibly erotic” games (and more) with children under his care in a Frankfurt Kindergarten.
A side to Green Politics (especially in Germany) that is not widely understood.
You might even care to read “How Green Were the N(ational Socialist German Workers’ Party)? by Brüggemeir, Cioc & Zeller. (Ohio University Press, 2005)
The Greens have only one MP (Ms. Lucas), but have infected 90% of MPs from the Uniparty with their policies, as dangerous as they are absurd.
I hope Toby won’t be treating us to the defence of a transgressive Islamic Jihadi or a Member of the CCP Politbureau, next.
Fair points.
I wish you luck, but I will not be contributing.
The Green Party is just about the most authoritarian and least democratic political party in the UK. The fact that you were Deputy Leader means you support authoritarianism as long as it’s for a cause YOU believe in.
“none of us is infallible”
Au contraire, all of us are fallible, and wrong most of the time. If we operated on that premise, we’d all get along just fine
This guy is asking the wrong people for cash. How much responsibility do the Green’s take for all the climate nonsense?
Dr Ali is a regular speaker at the Battle of Ideas festival every October. He speaks then listens to the majority view in the room that there is no climate catastrophy and he enters into the debate. I may disagree with him, but he engages and for that I am grateful. I know it is tempting to laugh at his misfortune, but he is the kind intellectual opponent that we need and so I am happy to have supported him.