25 January 2014
Graphs at a glance:
Government policy of cutting the cost of Justice risks denying justice for the
innocent and the guilty
Being
beastly to foreigners seems to be back in vogue. At least to foreigners without
much money. In its pursuit of popularity the Tory Party proposed stopping
printing welfare leaflets in foreign languages and stop providing translators
at benefits offices for those who don't speak English.
According
to an un-named 'Tory insider' quoted by the Daily Mail, "The vast majority of voters will think
this idea is plain common sense. It is unreasonable to expect taxpayers to
spend huge sums on translators when people should be learning to read and write
English."
Maybe
the Tory insider is right about voters, maybe not. Either way, denying poor
foreigners their legal right to benefits by putting up a language barrier won't
really affect the "vast majority of voters". On the other hand, the
government's ongoing outsourcing of providing interpreters for the Justice
System will. Impairing foreigners' access to good
interpreters when they appear in courts and police stations will
affect all of us. Those voters who care little whether an innocent foreigner
gets an undeserved punishment should remember: when the innocent get punished
for a crime they did not commit the guilty who did commit the crime get away to
offend again.
A report by the National
Audit Office in January 2014 took another look at the performance of the
Ministry of Justice's attempt at outsourcing the provision of interpreters to
the justice system.
Read more here: http://www.blog.rippedoffbritons.com/2014/01/graphs-at-glance-government-policy-of.html
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