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I’m really struggling to believe this, but there is no indication so far that it’s a hoax. According to the Sunday Herald, Big Blunkett wants to charge wrongly imprisoned people £3000 per year for the privilege of staying at her majesty’s pleasure. The reasoning?

[Blunkett's] spokesmen in the Home Office say it’s a completely “reasonable course of action” as the innocent men and women would have spent the money anyway on food and lodgings if they weren’t in prison. The government deems the claw-back ‘Saved Living Expenses’.

On White Rose, Perry De Havilland is amazed that Blunkett has managed to amaze him. In the Samizdata comments, Andy Danger gets it right:

Blunkett makes a very interesting case study for the statist whose mind is so warped that it leads him to come to ideas a six-year-old could recognize as horrible. There’s some sick moral inversion that goes on in the brain of someone like that where the people exist as grist for the government mill rather than the government being a construct of the people. Any psychology students feel like writing their thesis on Blunkett? I think the world could benefit.

Blunkett does indeed seem to be evil.

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