Keir Starmer has handed prisoners a 6.6% pay rise at a cost of £4.4 million despite depriving 10 million pensioners of their winter fuel allowance because money is so tight. The Telegraph has the story.
Some 85,000 prisoners in England and Wales will get £1 extra a week in their basic pay, which averages about £15, equivalent to a one-off, above-inflation increase of about 6.6%.
The Prison Service said the pay rise recognised that prisoners’ wages had fallen behind inflation during the eight-year freeze since their last wage increase in 2016.
Governors of all public sector prisons in England and Wales were sent a memo in September, just two months after Labour came to power, telling them to raise the wage rates, according to Inside Time, the prisoner newspaper that revealed the increase.
They could choose between an across-the-board rise or bigger targeted increases for the lowest paid. The extra money appeared on prisoners’ wage slips and canteen sheets from October.
However, no announcement was made as Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, prepared to unveil her Budget, with its record-breaking £40 billion tax raid.
It followed July’s announcement stripping more than 10 million pensioners of their winter fuel allowance.
Explaining the decision to raise pay, a Prison Service spokesman said: “Earning money for honest work is vital in helping offenders stay on the straight and narrow, which ultimately protects the public.”
They said prisoner pay had remained unchanged since 2016 and the “modest” rise came at no additional cost to the taxpayer, as it was being funded from existing Prison Service budgets.
A Ministry of Justice source added that pay motivated prisoners to attend work and education, helping to reduce their risk of reoffending, while higher pay may reduce the risk of prison debt, which can spiral into violence.
Offenders can work in jail workshops, where they produce goods such as clothes and furniture, and in prison support roles such as washing dishes, preparing meals and cleaning laundry.
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Looking at the polls it seems that increasing numbers of people are waking up to the fact that anything that Labour touches is toxic. Economy, energy, education, immigration etc. They literally haven’t put a foot right.
Just wait until the formal recession hits and unemployment shoots up. Labour will then be sub 20% in the polls. Reform will be the main beneficiaries.
Reform already are.
The only question remaining is how to get the Student Union party out of Westminster. And make sure we destroy the Tory party on the way
Don’t forget Whitehall, the deep state that you can’t vote out. Doomwatch is on tonight on TPTV. It often reminds me of Yes Minster the way they clash with officials.
I think the Tories are doing a good job of destroying themselves – as are Labour.
That this government would be nothing but Wokezilla on the rampage was the plan from the start. This mirrors a political plan brought forward to the German Greens by a so-called independent journalist when it became clear that their governing didn’t exactly make them more popular with the electorate (before the coalition collapsed): You have until the next election to ram through whatever of your policies you can. Make sure to use this chance to save a planet!
It’s clear to me that this government does not have a constructive plan at all: just a laundry list of destructive policies compiled by immature, intellectually and morally bereft, grievance apparatchiks. In a sane world they would be jailed for what they are doing.
bankruptcy beckons
16 year olds to get vote ? Did I get this right ?
But… reports from both sides of the Atlantic say that Gen Z – those under age 25, have turned away from the Left towards conservatism.
Giving 16 year olds the vote, might not produce the outcome the Labour-loonies hope.
Contrast this:
Now repeat with rejuvenated faith: Two-tier justice is nothing but right-wing conspiracy theory!
In case your faith in that wasn’t rejuvenated, a Crown Prosecution Service near you might have to have an interview with you.
But the marine is white, and male he needs to check his privilege. Whereas Mr Rudakaba or whatever is a diverse and beautiful but opressed man who was just expressing his frustration with the cultural insensitivity shown to him by those little girls dancing to Taylor Swift.
As our betters tell us we are bad, white colonialists who must pay for the colour of our skin and our ancestors.
Laurie’s reference to those who pleaded guilty to their on-line ‘offences’ got me thinking. I’m just wondering whether the PM’s references to them as ‘criminals’ before a trial may have had a subliminal effect on their plea. Just a thought.
they pled guilty because to do otherwise they could have been held on remand in jail for months or even years awaiting trial, this was how the Government and judiciary got away with what they did. including having the blood on their hands of the man who killed himself.
But as they have no conscience they don’t let it worry them
What if his language is unrelentingly negative?
“So what are you in for then?”
“For unrelentingly negative language.”
“Didn’t know that was a crime.”
“Nor did I, until the police came to arrest me…”
In an attempt to appear reasonable, stating that he was speaking up against illegal immigrants only and not the legal ones invites the idea that protesting against legal migration and being very negative about it is wrong and not to be allowed.
But who are we kidding. There really is no free speech in Britain. It’s an island of serfs who didn’t know they were serfs but some are beginning to realise they are.
“Unrelenting negative” = free speech.
is Buffy paying costs?
Is Buffy short for Buffoon, I wonder.
Well, she’s run away from Twitter in the last couple of months, so there’s that.
I expect Buffy Williams will be resigning.
Can the police sue the CPS for wasting police time? Can Jamie get compensation for wasting his time and damaging his mental health given that is all the rage these days. I understand that the elite were using remand as a punishment – look at what the DemoTwats did to the J6 political prisoners given that many were still on remand when Donald released them. However, they should have gone before a jury of their peers.
HURRAH FOR FSU
And well done that man. The f***ing state of things, it makes me sick.
Well stood up for yourself, Royal Marine.
Meanwhile Sir Two Tier bleats on about the far right from a position of cognitive bias well toward the far left.
Human rights lawyer and former DDP who cares not one jot for the human rights of legitimate protestors leaned on by Plod to plead guilty to avoid months on remand.
Not for nothing is the law known as the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Thank you so much Free Speech Union team. You’re our guardian angels.
Excellent. It shows the value of juries – “we the people” have had enough of this nonsense.
This is fantastic news! Well done to the Free Speech Union lawyers and all involved in the fight to obtain justice for that veteran warrior.
It is salutary to think that if Lord Toby hadn’t founded The Free Speech Union, that former Royal Marine Jamie Michael wouldn’t have had a chance against the Leftist/ Globalist/ Marxist “Common Purpose” Subversives pervading our entire government, society and legal system.
It’s scandalous that many protestors were induced to plead guilty. It’s not dissimilar to the plea bargains system which puts so many people in gaol in the USA.
You should be able to plead not guilty without an adverse effect on your sentence
Well done to the Jury who found him Not Guilty.