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chickenfeet ([personal profile] chickenfeet) wrote2006-10-21 02:45 pm
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What goes around comes around?

So the British government in the person of former CPGB thug John Reid is reintroducing prison hulks. Transportation to the colonies can't be far behind.
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[identity profile] kaet.livejournal.com 2006-10-21 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
As the general consensus in the UK, at least, seems to be that almost all of our former "transportation" colonies are now much better places to live than the mother country, I'm not sure that would be much of a deterant, :). I can imagine a fair sector of the population ready to steal a policemans helmet if it meant free entry into Oz, Canada, or NZ.

I didn't realise that John Reid was once in CPGB, it does make sense (once I re-read 'CEGB' correctly).

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2006-10-21 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
He was rather notorious. He was the enforcer for the CPGB when they were making a rather lucrative thing out of controlling the Student Union at Stirling.

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2006-10-21 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm surprised that anyone ever stirred themselves at Stirling from the fug of weed that used to pervade the place in the 80's...

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2006-10-21 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, before my time... Not that I was there, but I did spend the odd torpid weekend on campus.

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2006-10-21 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Anne Widdicombe was always very proud of having re-introduced the prison ships...
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[personal profile] gramarye1971 2006-10-21 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Am I the only one who finds it amusing that she also suggested using former holiday camps as prison sites? I can't quite quash the mental images of a new series of Hi-de-Hi! based on that premise...

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2006-10-21 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh gods... she was of the generation of Tories who wanted to turn the Isle of Wight into a concentration camp for people with AIDS...

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2006-10-21 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Luxury! The reeducation camps for Tories will be in the freaking Orkneys.

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2006-10-21 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't tell pshtaku...

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2006-10-22 11:53 am (UTC)(link)
I fear that sending prisoners to Butlitz would almost certainly violate EU Human Rights legislation.
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[identity profile] shezan.livejournal.com 2006-10-22 11:48 am (UTC)(link)
Next: Azkaban!

[identity profile] rhythmaning.livejournal.com 2006-10-22 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Quite barbaric.
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