This could have come from the mouth of Tony Blair himself or any one of his Home Secretaries.
Draw attention to an “injustice” to a “victim” or against the “law abiding majority" and then drum up ill-informed public support for a change in the Law or procedure – change that never had been necessary until this incompetent, mindlessly tinkering New Labour Government assumed power.
Before slamming (to use a word much beloved of the Press) judges or the criminal justice system, just bear in mind which Government enacted the “soft” sentencing laws and some of the procedures that have to be applied.
Everything this New Labour Government touches turns eventually to dust.
Loss of confidence in courts taking legal system into dangerous terrain