rugbymatt

Do you want to read my opening part of my post again?

I make no distinction, i am saying that this is atrocious, if you think that it is acceptable because it is what goes on then thats you opinion, mine is that its atrocious and unacceptable. I pay the same council tax as Blenheim Palace for my 2 bed cottage and get no assurance from the Police that i am safe.

sassenach

and ofcourse everything reported by the bbc is taken as gospel ,for christ sake its a newsagency and no doubt these things happen but they happen everywhere .

MartinLuther

You missed John Major's government then.

They were losing so many prisoners in transit that it started a housing shortage

rugbymatt

The Home Office has responded to the claims and admitted that there are major issues, it has even admitted that the reports are correct and that they are working frantically to plug the holes.

So lets see, BBC claims its true, agency admits guilt, yet they are all talking crap. Not really logical is it?

sassenach

no its not acceptable ,but the thread is the usual brit bashing and how low can it go crap when in reality its no different anywhere else .Why in my book would the OP post such garbage but for any other reason to antagonise and to show to himself and other wannas that its better elsewhere when in reality it isnt .
And as far as i know the the australian police make no undertaking to make you safe and neither has the brit police either .They are as strapped fro cash as any other government agency .

rugbymatt

Not sure how an Aussie can be an OZ wannabe but thats not the issue.

I agree that this is going on everywhere and have never said that any country is free of crime, i was bought up in the Middle East and crime was very rare there, but that was because the penalty for it was savage, did it make it a safe place to live? No.
The issue is that the HO is responsible for doing a job, if it is dome badly or ineptly it should be addressed. Its the same with any business, agency, department the world over.

But again, the issue in hand is the failings of that agency!

JackTheLad

One thing that confuses me in Australia. I read in the paper statements like:

The man was sentenced to 30 days prison for assault. No conviction was recorded.

or how about this:

http://www.theage.com.au/news/Nation...254025076.html

I mean, whats the point of that? He was convicted of indecent assault, but they decided "not to record it". Why not? You are either convicted or you are not. Whats this 'convicted - but we will all have collective amnesia' concept.

What a stupid stupid idea. But I read it every day. "Convicted - but not recorded".

So anyway, what was your point about the UK with convicted criminals without criminal records

JTL

arkon

Err, yes it can, come and live here!

arkon

Your the one that needs to see a shrink. I can't think of anyone else anal enough to keep trawling the net in the hope of finding something to bash the UK with and then writing it up here, longwinded and with links to where you foundd the rubbish as though by putting a reference it somehow gives it more weight whilst making you look all clever and sophisticated at the same time.

Blunders like this happen all the time here, so often infact it's hard to remember what they all are. Just today there were 2, one something to do with the ADF and the other to do with ferries. If I could be arsed to look like a simpleton I would spend the next hour searching for them on the web and put links to the stories to make myself look all big and clever too.

Wol

For God's sake - why don't you two just meet up and have a fistfight <g>.

Every country has its good and bad points and only a fool would deny it. Arkon has had many bad encounters with the local fauna and has written it up as he sees it. Good for him. I suppose one way of replying *is* to paste hundreds of references about the UK but this actually *is* a forum for we anal retentives to post about countries outside the UK!

The OH

been on a conflict management course, Vash?