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Must be a big market for the goods being stolen-ie,people who will buy the stolen goods.Why does this market exist?
More whole shows please!!
Cost of living crisis plus decimated police force equals shoplifting epidemic. Both caused by the Tories. 🤣
Is it really too hard to understand that currently a generation is growing up that sees day-in day-out that there are no consequences for your criminal behaviour if you're just rich and powerrful enough? That's the world we created for them, that's the social role models we are setting.
nah, it's been going on since labour's 'soft on crime' mantra
Disaffected and impoverished citizens pushed for survival; yeah they will steal. No surprise
the class division and and poverty in a country with huge amounts of wealth held by a few are the main issues. honestly, it don't even matter how far back the generational wealth goes. until we come together and accept that we are ALL the inheritors of ALL is society's wealth, and that no individual can ever create wealth on his own and thus the wealth belongs equally to all. we will continue having these problems until a fairer redistribution happens. which i don't see ever happening since even or labour party is now just a tory with a red rosette on. and our left media are neo-liberal mouthpieces. yes even JOB unfortunately. i was disappointed by how softball he was in his interview with Keir Starmer Kid Starver)
If you can get Way with it go for it after all the government is robbin g the country cant beat them join them they cant lock us all up . Up the the torys
This is what happens when trillionaire billionaires multiply, using our resources, and the number of Food Banks increases for the working class 😢😢
In these times….nothing wrong with a 5 finger discount i feel
But if JRM can have a top hat…why cant I?
Its the inequetiable distribution of basic needs and certainly wealth
How is shoplifting hard to prove? There's 450 million CCTVs across this nation, how is it difficult?
Shoplifting is hungry people stealing steaks to feed their starving family.
Also this is a right-wing moral panic.
Well done mr Meldrew. You’ve got it off your chest and you will sleep better tonight!😂
Interesting story about shop lifting. Here in the US we have the same problem…but I remember being in J-Burg in 2002 & EVERY store was locked & bared. If you wanted to come in you would have to wait until the shopkeeper opened the door. Where I previously lived I saw tweakers stealing needles from the bins at my local Farm store. When I reported it they said the same thing….they know it’s happening but don’t try to stop it. And farmers need to be able to buy the needles so they have to stock them w/o being under lock & key. A world gone crazy.
Yayyy finally! Brit living in Bahrain here. I'm soooo happy to find this full show. Please please upload more full shows, I've watched every single short clip haha. Avid fan here
You are the best presenter ever., please never leave. You always tell it the way it is.
More full shows!
I want some compensation from the Sentinelese for eating my great great great great Grandfather.
Three strikes and a life sentence, no matter what the offence, commit three offences and you get life.
Police on the beat, back to community policing. Visibility, funding for services, education, build back the fabric of community, eradicate poverty
Police on the beat, back to community policing. Visibility, funding for services, education, build back the fabric of community,
Started from stopping discipline in schools, and making smacking kids illegal.
love this LBC. Well done, always wanted to 'watch' him even though I DO LISTEN live too. Catch up 'thing'. Thanks for this format. BRILLIANT. Well done LBC.
The lack of charm, charisma and honesty is the reason why Labour fail to win General Elections 🙂
I am a Swede who has wor,ed a lot in UK. 15 years ago i got the chance to look in tne history book of a friend's son history book. I was shocked in the proud way the colonial period was described. I have often been thimkimg about this when Brexit been discussed and the exceptionalism that I feel i see in many areas. This will never be fixed without correcring the description. I think this applies to many former colonial states but UK is so affected in tne society and in someway tbe old description legitimate it today.
Shoplifting drug addicts sell meat and alcohol from supermarkets in the pubs near where I live. Joints of meat, steaks, bottles of spirits, Champagne etc
Half the price –
I have often watched the short bits of James show and love the way he presents. As for the shop lifting I think the UK is liveing in the last days of its empire. I was born in the UK just after WW2. and left 26 years later. The negative changes in the country I grew up in are excelerating, and all the politisions are just hoping it will last till they collect their pensions and head for the coast. I am not sure what the solution is, but I don't see how more growth and the introduction of AI is going to help.
….we've had 13 years of this scourge of shoplifting….the tories have alot to answer for…!!
Following an adult shoplifter in 2023? Sounds like a great way to get stabbed.
US slavery ended over 150 years ago. Five generations have come and gone since then. Most of us are fully supportive of helping the chronically impoverished in our current society, using current means of assistance. But to turn focus back to the Victorian era to try to determine beneficiaries and victims? Absurd. And by the way many families in the south were bankrupt by the end of the war as the confederate government took everyone’s’ savings to finance their campaign. Most families in the south received pardons signed by President Lincoln for having owned slaves and fought on the side of the south. Are those pardons abandoned, rescinded, cancelled?
How much does rent cost? How much does it cost to buy a home? Electric bills? Petrol? Weekly groceries?
How many shops are understaffed and underpaid staff? What are the employment opportunities for youths?
What economic policies have been implemented in the past 5 years that have benefited the middle or working class?
This is the same exact story told from the same perspective of “nobody is doing anything about it” and we need more policing and harsher penalties for these “gangs”.
How low have we sunk that the answers to austerity policies and tax cuts for the rich and their companies is more police.
Same arguments and solution American has been pushing.
Is it fair to say most shoplifters are…well…non-white?
Tory hate will help, people are desperate
I used to work in the UK in the 2000s and then missed it a lot for years. Now I don't. What have you become? 🙁
The police are NOT interested and even if there is a conviction we have WEAK courts judges that are to SOFT there is NO DETERRENT
It's not really a surprise that these soulless Tory "machine men" don't give a toss about what they've done to small bands in regards to touring Europe. . It's still an incredibly sad state of affairs though. 😔
FINALLY
I’ve always been a thief, I can’t help it, I’m from a family of thieves.
No actually, historically capitalism was the result of (a) the invention of '0', (b) double entry bookkeeping (in Italy), (c) the emergence of the exchange (first bourse in the world @Antwerp), (d) the legal embodiment of property rights (low counties, have first shares in the VOC), (e) central banking (in Amsterdam) and the global export of the capitalist system by England to the world, upon the Glorious Revolution leading to a copy/paste job from capital & system from the Dutch Republic to the UK.
The solution is to move.. Leave the country. What else is a government going to listen to when they so easily miniplate the public into supporting anything? I live in Japan and have zero regrets.