Crime and Policing

Part of Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day] – in the House of Commons at 1:40 pm on 8 September 2010.

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Photo of Toby Perkins Toby Perkins Labour, Chesterfield 1:40, 8 September 2010

My right hon. Friend is making a powerful point about the contribution of the Liberal Democrats. Many people have wondered whether this Government would be any different if the Lib Dems were not involved, but are we perhaps now starting to see how they are involved? When we look at the cuts in policing, the decision to put yobbos on to the street rather than in prison, and they ways in which the Government are on the side of the criminals rather than of the police, we can see that the lily-livered Liberals are indeed making their contribution to government, just as people were beginning to wonder what they were doing.