Friday - December 16, 2011

Young criminals are being given party bags of sweets on their first night behind bars.

I have notes and clippings coming out my ears. And I still managed to lose track of this item which I found last week.  Then forgot I had it.
However, as I read Richard Littlejohn faithfully, he ran the brief story in his column today. 
Isn’t funny at all. Is it?

Banana Republic
A snapshot of modern, multi-culti Britain. Paulo Franco, who is Portuguese, says he was forced out of his job as a supervisor at Britain’s biggest banana-packing factory, in Coventry, because he couldn’t speak Polish.
Although Mr Franco speaks perfect English, he wasn’t able to communicate with his overwhelmingly Polish workforce. So he had to go.

Some other managers at the factory have now downloaded iPhone apps so they can translate their instructions into Polish.
Fyffes Bananas’ spokesman Paul Barrett said: ‘You can’t ban people speaking in their own language.’
No, but you can ban people speaking English in England, apparently.
Absolutely bananas.

Also among my notes is an example of what I think is theater of the absurd.
A story in the Telegraph for which there is no link because the Telegraph did not include the article anywhere on line that I could find.
So once again Littlejohn to the rescue as he mentions a much abbreviated version in The Daily Mail.

The headline in the other paper read,

SWEETS LEFT ON PILLOWS OF YOUNG OFFENDERS FOR FIRST NIGHT IN JAIL

Young criminals are being given party bags of sweets on their first night behind bars.

Ashfield Young Offenders’ Institution, in Gloucestershire, believes it helps them settle in to their new surroundings.
The bags contain fudge, Refreshers and Polos. Why not put an After Eight on their pillow, too.
I don’t believe in treating young offenders in the same way as hardened crooks. Many of them have never known kindness in their lives — but they are there to be punished, as well as rehabilitated.
A finger of fudge on their first night inside is not the way to go about it. Don’t forget the fruit gums, mum!

He left out the fudge bars. Yum. Many of the louts came in after the summer riots so I guess a few anyway are getting some taste of being locked up.
But a spokesman for the ppl who operate the prison, SERCO, who btw also do garbage and recycled trash collection, says the young offenders “need to be treated with kid gloves to some extent to protect them from the harsher side of life in prison.”

Right you are. Give em the impression it’s a walk in the park.  After all ... who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?

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