The BBC has a piece from shadow boy pixie home secretary Yvette Cooper praising Labours record on crime whilst in power :

Labour should be proud of its record on crime – Cooper

Labour should be “proud” of its record in cutting crime, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper has said.

Followed by a nice little puff piece with many uses of tough, strong, communities, cracking down, Tony and Gordon.

As is typical of the BBC, there are no quotes from anyone but Labour in the article, although (to be slightly fair) they do mention that Sadiq Khan was slightly less flattering of Labours performance a few days ago.

Now, how I wish someone would hack the webste and run the following which is much more appropriate for Labour’s record on crime :

Labour should be proud of its record on crime – Cooper

Ex-Labour MP David Chaytor has been jailed for 18 months for fraudulently claiming more than £20,000 in expenses.

Chaytor, 61, the former MP for Bury North, last month admitted three charges of false accounting.

He submitted bogus invoices for IT consultancy work and claimed rent he never paid on homes owned by his family, the court was told.

Eric Illsley, the first sitting MP to face criminal charges over the expenses scandal, was sentenced to a year in prison yesterday – 24 hours after it was confirmed he had finally quit Parliament. On the same day, the former Labour MP Jim Devine was convicted of fiddling his Commons expenses. He will be sentenced in about four weeks.

Illsley pleaded guilty in Southwark Crown Court last month to £14,000 worth of expenses fraud over three years, in relation to his second homes allowance.

SCUNTHORPE MP Elliot Morley is set to appear in court today.

Mr Morley will appear at City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court charged with two offences under the Theft Act in connection with his parliamentary expense claims.

Former Labour MP has been convicted of fiddling his expenses. Jim Devine, who succeeded the late foreign secretary, Robin Cook, as MP for Livingston, was found guilty by a jury at Southwark crown court on two charges of false accounting, involving false invoices for cleaning and printing work totalling £8,385. He was cleared on a further charge relating to a £360 bill for cleaning.The former backbencher, of Bathgate, West Lothian, was the first MP to stand trial in expenses scandal. He will be sentenced at a later date.

European Court DNA rules against the UK’s excessive DNA data retention

The rapid expansion of the DNA database in Britain was halted yesterday by a damning ruling by European human rights judges that the retention of the profiles and fingerprints of more than 850,000 innocent people was unlawful.The unanimous ruling by the European court of human rights scuppers Home Office plans to extend automatic retention of DNA samples to those arrested for low-level offences such as traffic violations and littering and for the Europe-wide sharing of records. The national DNA database contains profiles of 4.3 million people who have been arrested by the police in connection with “recordable” offences that carry a potential prison sentence.

UK court rules against government in indeterminate jail term cases

The Queen’s Bench Division of the England and Wales High Court ruled Tuesday that the continued imprisonment of two inmates serving indeterminate prison sentences without the means to prove their rehabilitation constitutes arbitrary and unreasonable detention and is therefore unlawful.

An indeterminate sentence, also referred to as an imprisonment for public protection sentence (IPP) , requires an inmate to demonstrate to the Parole Board that he or she is no longer a threat to society to become eligible for release after serving a minimum sentence.

IPP sentences were introduced as part of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 [Sec. 225 text] and became effective in April 2005.

Unfortunately, one could continue this theme at some length given the complete and utter set of authoritarian twats that was the last government.

Perhaps someone will compile a full set one day as a warning to anyone thinking of voting for them next time around.

Finally, in case you have already forgotten just how slimy Labour were, the following video is still very much worth watching :
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I still maintain that the Conservatives should have had the balls to use this on TV as a Political Broadcast rather than relegating it to YouTube.