Labour have made an outrageous announcement (Image: PA)
What on earth’s happened to feminism? When I was growing up feminism was all about demanding equality with men – equality of opportunity, equal pay and equal treatment. But it seems that feminism has lost its way and is suffering an identity crisis.
When it comes to being sentenced by the courts, feminists are no longer arguing that women should be treated the same as men – they are arguing that women should be treated more leniently than men.
I was brought up to believe that everyone was equal before the law, and surely if someone commits a crime, it shouldn’t matter if that criminal is male or female they should all be treated the same by the courts.
And yet the so-called feminists in the Labour Government have announced that they are going to ensure that fewer female offenders are going to be sent to prison. Two thirds fewer.
As it happens, women offenders are already treated much more favourable by the courts than men anyway. According to Government statistics, for every category of offence a male criminal is more likely to be sent to prison than a woman for committing the same crime and is much more likely to be given a longer sentence.
As a result, only around four percent of prisoners are women – and yet feminists are now demanding that even fewer female criminals are sent to prison.
This is outrageous.
Because of the existing bias in sentencing, it means that the only women who are sent to prison are either very serious or very persistent offenders – despite what you may hear from those in the soft on crime lobby.
According to the House of Commons library there are 2,788 female prisoners in the country. The question is which of the women in prison do these fake feminists think should be released?
Is it the 1,025 who are in prison for violent offences? Is it the 410 in jail for drug offences?
Perhaps it is the 630 in prison for theft and robbery. Maybe they want to release the 126 locked up for sexual offences or the 67 in jail for criminal damage and arson, or the 56 in prison for possession of weapons. Once you start adding all these up, there aren’t that many left.
So let us reject this ridiculous idea of having even fewer women sent to prison and let us get feminism back to where it should be – demanding equality not special treatment – and let’s ensure that more criminals are locked up, be they male or female.
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Who is running the country? Does anyone know? I was expecting to find out this week at Labour’s party conference, the first one since they swept into office.
There’s certainly a lot vying for power. The omnipresent, former civil servant, , now earning more than the PM; Lord Waheed Alli, he with fingers in lots of pies; Dale Vince, green energy magnate and former funder of ; Labour’s reliable pay-masters, the unions; or least likely, himself.
I thought we might see a confident PM in Liverpool, stamping his authority on the after his victory. Instead we got a typically weak Starmer, who left early, missing the conference vote on the which he lost.
His speech, apart from the sausage/hostage gaffe was forgettable and full of mindless platitudes. By the way, how does anyone mix up “hostages” and “sausages”? I thought he had spent too much time with !
I’d have thought that after 14 years in opposition, he would be announcing some headline -grabbing Labour policies. Instead the fire was provided by trade union leaders, with Mick Lynch, General Secretary of RMT, calling for a sweeping expansion of union powers which seems likely as is introducing a new workers’ rights bill and more than half the party’s 404 MPs get cash from them, having received £1.8m since May.
Labour’s conference was a really bad start for a new government mired in scandal, and it exposed Starmer as someone who just wanted to be Prime Minister for the status it brings and not because he believes in anything. This lack of direction is why others, unelected others, will be providing it.