‘I’m a lifelong Labour voter now’: Prisoners praise Starmer after early release
One inmate said the scheme was a good idea. On the one hand, of course they would say that. Most of the people being released who aren't homeless are going to be happy about it. If you are shocked by that you have never seen a prison break film.
The way the Telegraph, any many other papers with a similar story, have written it, they’re trying to stir the poop. What are they saying? “I bet Labour only did this to get more voters?”
Let’s have a little think. We’re chronologically the furthest point from another election. This is the worst time to be recruiting new voters. Ken Clarke has always said the moment right after an election is the time to be unpopular, but even he must look at the way Labour have played it and thought, “Yeah, but don’t take the piss with it.”
Do you need to convince people in prison to vote for Labour? I’m not trying to be nasty but surely if you’re in prison you’re more likely to be a Labour person than a Tory person. That’s correlation not causation. If you’re from a less well off background you might be more likely to be driven to a life of crime. Also, if you do the kind of crimes Tory voters do you don’t go to prison. You pay back the tax you should have paid crack on with your life.
And would you risk losing so much national popular support to go after the former prisoner vote who might not be the most likely to get out there and vote anyway. Some criminals don’t vote in every election because they’re busy doing a 5-stretch, but I’m not sure they’re the most dependable voter block.
It’s just a snide way for the newspapers to imply a sinister motive behind Labour’s move other than a failing prison system.
The proof that it isn’t a conspiracy is in the newspaper article. The convicted drug dealer, who was freed from prison under the Government’s early release scheme, said on Tuesday that it had made him “a lifelong Labour voter”.
Keep doing drugs and that won't be very long.
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