The government's policies on overcrowded prisons and winter fuel payments for pensioners are hurried, simple solutions to complex problems: short term answers to long term questions.
Will they have the guts to come up with long term solutions, requiring reforming public services (and I do *not* mean privatisation!), too?
"The early release of around 1,750 offenders has started despite warnings it is "risky" and could create "more mayhem in communities"."
https://news.sky.com/story/chief-prisons-inspector-warns-of-revolving-door-as-around-1-750-inmates-are-set-for-early-release-13212129
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