I have just read on open council network that Tesco had applied for an alcohol licence, and an ATM license, according to the article, permission was granted with conditions attached.
In an ideal world, yes, more tax would be directed to the justice system. Because a lot of suspects don't get a fair trial and wrongly convicted. Often they'll have a long list of previous, so police are picking the low hanging fruit. And because legal aid solicitors and barristers' pay is now so anaemic, they simply don't have the time to work a case and defend it properly. So you probably see more people behind bars than there should be.
It started with Brown and then got way worse with Cameron, when he essentially tried to turn legal aid firms into giant call centres and put the contracts out to tender. Even since then, the system gets squeezed more every year.
You pay tax to fix problems
you underfund stuff my faking tax cuts and the breakdown of the system is what you get
there are no cheap or easy fixes. It will take money and time - and people lack patience
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