I was on one of my regular all-is-lost trips when EX_STAB sent me this

A man from south-east London who has tackled at least 30 criminals on the street has been recognised for his bravery by the Metropolitan Police. Over the last 15 years, Vincent David Oligbo, who has been called "the pride of Plumstead" has stepped in to stop muggers, pickpockets and drug dealers.

Now on the face of it we should rejoice at the article & at Mr Oligbo’s undoubted decency, however it’s the Polices’ attitude which is phone us & we will never show up because we are too busy filling our diversity targets sort it out, that is all just so depressing

If more criminals became aquatinted with the business end of a cricket bat, not only would the police find that there resources weren’t so thinly spread, but the Courts wouldn’t be log jammed & there would be an end to prison over crowding.

Now don’t even get me started on the whole ‘taking the law into your own hands is a crime’ because that is a completely spurious argument: its our law & we all know what a criminal looks like.

The only downside to beating some felon to a bloodied pulp is in fact the prison overcrowding issue – I want these people in prison. I want more of them incarcerated. In fact the Courts should regard newspaper headlines announcing that our prisons now resemble the Black Hole of Calcutta, as an achievement to be lauded because deeply deeply unpleasant prison conditions caused by overcrowding should from part of the punishment.