• HumanPenguin@feddit.uk
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      23 hours ago

      Technically that would mean it has failed.

      I’m sure it will. But having to arrest the little shits proves the threat of jail failed to change their actions.

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    Campaign group River Action welcomed the new measures but said they would only be effective if they were used. “Without delivering actual prison sentences, it’s just theatre,” chief executive James Wallace said. “If the government is serious let’s see real jail time, not just headlines.” Consumers were currently “paying the price for regulatory failure and corporate greed”, he said, and called for an end to the “failed privatisation experiment”.

    USA is no longer a superpower. No need to be intimidated into following up our money>* horrible example.