Just as ‘overcrowded prisons’ slips from media headlines like a receding tide this spectacular own goal appears to have been scored by Gordon.
A planned 38% increase in the minimum weekly pay for prisoners in England and Wales has been abandoned the day before it was due to come into force.
The rise from a minimum £4 to £5.50 for work inside jails would have been the first increase since the mid-1990s.
Go directly to jailEither news of the pay rise had been leaked and The Mail was going to press with ‘narks get more than teachers’ or this is just another monumental cock up by Brown. Nobody had mentioned it ‘til it was cancelled.
I hope there is prison rioting and the overcrowding/early release/cushy lifestyle prison service fiasco fills the media for months to come.
Let’s face it Gordon, you couldn’t manage a Wendy House. It is time to go…
