The post you are reporting:
"People - the public, need to feel reassured that these young people are being sentenced enough to put them off of doing it again - the public need protecting from them."
If only the sentences included options as...
Attendance at a local Youth Cub.
Firm encouragement to attend further education, say £30/week?
Is it not odd, not to say perverse, that 'we' are so, so willing to spend, spend, spend to punish whereas we cut, cut, cut any and all positive measures?
I utterly fail to comprehend why, in any democracy, the 'citizen' is by default seen as a liability and an onerous burden upon a Government that the franchised citizenry elect.
David Davis may have been emboldened by comments here yesterday, but went much further than some here in stating that Social Housing IS a privilege.
Truely, in this, as yet a so-called, democracy we seem to elect people to the position of Feudal Overlord and with redoubled perversity term them Our Representatives.