Commit actual violence like drunken MP Mike Amesbury — decking a voter, then battering him on the ground — and you get ten weeks, suspended on appeal.
Instead, asylum claimants hit a new record of 108,138 last year, more than a third arriving by small boat.
Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood fancies a Texan scheme which could see her scrap early release altogether unless lags EARN it.
The rest are still in the system or given the nod already to start new lives here, to which they should not be entitled and for which they brazenly jumped the queue.
Incredibly, his lawyer actually tried to deploy two-tier justice, telling the judge that Amesbury faced a “second sentence .
