J. E. Dyer – yep, the UK’s present could be the US’ future, if the Left has its way here as much as they did there. And when that happens, it’s game over – two Europe’s will not do the world any good at all.

Invariably, the miscreant that gets a beat-down has a long record of getting away with increasingly destructive and violent acts. When police and courts are inept or impotent this trajectory of violence can only end with someone getting seriously hurt. Violent crime is out of control in The UK, especially in London – so much so that everyone knows someone who has been attacked or terrorized by criminals. I think even the liberal newspaper reporters and editors are sick of it and scared of it.

Sentences in the UK, for crimes from thievery to murder and everything in-between, are derisory. Partly this is due to the misguided sympathy of some judges and partly it is down to political interference, as Labour refuses to build more prisons, leaving no choice other than to let criminals go.

Which hardly deters them from committing further crimes in the future, of course.

Rather than sending petty criminals like this to jail (which the UK cannot do, anyway, as there is no room left in any of its prisons – seriously), can we not just give them a severe beating?

Sadly, that, or anarchy, is the end result of courts refusing to mete out meaningful punishment to criminals. Either decent citizens take the law into their own hands or there is no law at all.

You are seeing more and more stories in UK papers celebrating people that beat up robbers and other miscreants. You also see plenty of stories taking the government to task when they try to for prosecute people who defend themselves. Perhaps Brits are seeing the light of where criminal coddling gets you.