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I'm an American, and haven't followed this closely. I have read the articles you mention. His main point was that if the Tories have been in power for 11 years
by iudqnolq 7y ago
I'm an American, and haven't followed this closely. I have read the articles you mention.
His main point was that if the Tories have been in power for 11 years and haven't even brought up changing the law on early release it's disengenuous for them to argue that it's Labor's fault. If they had cared about the issue, they would have done something about it, goes his argument. You don't seem to address this.
He further argues that Johnson's comments plagiarized his. If he wrote comments that the Tories wanted to publicize, wouldn't that contradict your assertion he never criticizes labor? Furthermore, you don't seem to address the plagiarism issue; if Johnson plagiarized the tweets it doesn't matter how well written they were.
- makomk 7y agoThe Tories did change the law on early release, in 2012. They just didn't retroactively extend the sentences of prisoners who'd already been convicted and sentenced. Also, hiw whole complaint was that the Tories didn't publicize his comments and their correct, anti-Tory spin. Finally, the only evidence given of plagarism aside from the fact that both debunked the same claim is that they both linked to the same explanation of how parole worked for extended sentences - which is literally the first result when Googling for the topic. They weren't worded the same, weren't making the same argument otherwise, and the original blog post certainly didn't mention anywhere that Labour had made any of the claims it was debunking.
- iudqnolq 7y agoThanks for your response. I don't know enough right now to know if you're right, and I'm not interested in doing the research necessary to find out today. I may well have been wrong. Have a nice day.