Tory MPs Jonathan Gullis and James Sunderland, who served in Iraq, Bosnia, and the Falklands during his time in the British Army, have proposed a Desecration of War Memorials Bill.
The proposed legislation, aimed at enabling police and courts to more easily prosecute those who damage memorials, is due to be considered by the House of Commons on 23 June. Mr Gullis recently wrote on his website:"Desecration of memorials that remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice so we can enjoy the freedoms we have today is repugnant".
He added:"At present there is no specific law to protect these important monuments and unless £5,000 worth of damage is done, it is incredibly hard to prosecute."Therefore I will be putting forward this bill to bring about a clear custodial sentence and fine for such heinous acts." Charlie Gilmour, the son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, was jailed for 16 months for violent disorder during the 2010 student protests in London.
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Should be 30 year
Putin's CCCP... 10 years for aknowledging your own history..
How about put them in jail for the same amount of time the war lasted.
Have they supported 10-year jail sentences though? The quote in your article says that they are 'willing to work with' the Government (would it honestly make a difference if they didn't against an 80 seat majority in Parliament?) on creating a new offence.
10 years for vandalism of a war memorial.Beat a child to death suspended sentence or a few years
How many years sentence for al lthe unessacary deaths by this government for not locking down earlier
ABSURD STUFF from UKLabour 10 years for vandalising war memorial 5 years for killing by drink driving, etc, etc Get your priorities right guys Keir_Starmer DavidLammy This is just plain absurd.
Credit where credit is due.
Priorities of course as BAME labour members are marginalised & nothing done about labourLeaks
So what ?
Understandable, it can’t be replaced & insults our veterans that fought for us to have rights Veterans
So we're just going to make up and change shit as we go along now are we?
UKLabour In what way does that punishment fit the crime?...
There is some remains of decency in the Labour Party. Thank you!
It (criminal damage) already is 10 years. This is gesture, knee-jerk politics
i guess they were right to not vote yall cryptofascists in
This is a big yikes
You punish protestors in UK and support riots in Hong Kong. DoubleStandards hypocrisy
Own up...who voted Keir Starmer? O dear o dear AngelaRayner what will you do now. Own up who voted Tory?
I think we have all gone mad, come on you don’t give murderers 10 years
'The 'March of the Volunteers' is the national anthem of the People's Republic of China, including its special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau.' [Source: Wikipedia] So it is to be expected that all Tory and Labour members STFU regarding 'law and order' in Hong Kong.
This is stupid and ridiculous! Memorials are not worth prison term of 10 years!
Yet war criminal Tony Blair walks free. Amazing.
Pathetic. Memorials mean more than the lives of the living obviously. Prison should only be for the most henious of crimes such as murder, sexual crimes, abuse etc not petty criminal damage
How absolutely ridiculous, sounding a little bit North Korea
How do you justify 10 years of jail for vandalism.? Some people murder and only receive 8 years.
Harsh
Ridiculous. Manslaughter sentence isn't that long
What about a firing squad
LeaveTheStatues They are part of our heritage and culture. Instead of tearing them down educate people.
More fake news ? sounds like it 😡
Well i am surprised, fair play to Kier, corbyn would of pandered to these scummy bastards.
This some Blue Labour crap.
Femi_Sorry
What about for collusion with a foreign state (RussiaReportNOW) & for telling bare-faced lies while an MP?
Silly populism.
Don't say it do it, ffs you guys talk make threats but deep down you shut up and run into you little corner scared thats some people might get offended. If you don't have the guts quit.
The same for the pricks protecting it while giving Nazi salutes?
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How come SKY NEWS Australia is more HONEST and IMPARTIAL than you ?
That’s a little light on the sentencing. Could have been 30 to life. They got off easy.
They didn't actually say that did they? The shadow minister said that they would support having specific legislation. That's very different to supporting 10 year sentences.
Great News
Blimey for the 1 time ever I think I’m going to agree and say this is the right thing form the Labour Party . This decision must have upset many labour voters if I think it was a good thing !
Does that mean most of the violent BLM protesters will be locked up? Brill news.
Starmer wanted benefit cheats to be given 10 years, says it all.
sylviamayingham Can we extend that to statues and police who stand idly by as they’re dismantled conservatives BorisJohnson MrMasonMills Boris needs to grow a spine like Maggie he’s getting more like May daily and a disappointment DVATW darcybbc
It should be an act of treason and the penalty should be death.
The Labour Party strategists currently.
Personally, I think they should be made to clean it all up and pay for any damage caused. They should also apologise for vandalising. Doesn’t need a mad sentence
This is nuts, people who actually inflict harm on living people get much less, if anything. Rapists get less.
What a joke
Wow what about the criminals in the house of commons
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But let the sex offender roam free eh
Just cut their fucking hands off
Same applies to prevalent black on black knife crime? Hmmmmm
Umm... ?
No ones asking for Labours permission.
Anyone caught send them to Syria to live, nowt there to destroy, morons !!!
Good
That is a joke. Murderers get lesser sentences. And paedophiles!! WTF is going on in this fu*ked up country.
About time Labour did something right.
Creating laws that will disproportionately affect young people. I will LEAVE labour if this happens. You don’t need harsher sentences when the world has opened a dialogue on community solutions to combat MINOR crimes!
What about MPs of all political hue supporting the investigation of the cowards who murdered our loved ones over 45 yrs ago? Isn't equality in a country's judiciary system meant to be THE standard of a 'Democracy'? If that's the case, the UK is seriously lacking! birmingham_live
Keir_Starmer pleased to hear Labour will support this. If we can’t honour our war dead then we have lost the soul of our country.
What about the mobs caught violently attacking people yesterday
If your handing out higher sentences for damage to property than damage to people then the criminal justice system has failed.
They realise not all voters are black or Muslim now their trying for the white voters to late Labour are dangerous
Back dated by 10 days
Moderates being dirty for fascists again.
Bad move labour, leaning towards the people who were throwing nazi salutes while 'defending' a Churchill from themselves is not a good look. Don't throw away what ethics you have to try and appeal to a middle ground that isn't equal.
And the fuckers that attack the Police for just doing there jobs...
Absolutely ridiculous. Rapists spend less time in prison. Most of them never even get jailed.
How long for those behind Grenfell?
What about the white supremacist thugs attacking the police? Oh right... manipulative media Shocking ... not Labour, you are a travesty to what Labour stands for
Hmmm....questionable response
Could we not send those guilty to Russia and one of those reputable prisons hidden away in the far north - they could come back after a stretch of being taught right from wrong ?
Good nice time to see that the Labour Party has a back bone now that idiot corbyn and his accomplices are back in their box
What?
Good.
Start with this one desecration of the Cenotaph and burning our Union Flag where is he who is he someone must know him the scum who urinated near PC Keith Palmer memorial discussing low life Jail
pritipatel BorisJohnson THATS NOT ENOUGH davidkurten MediaFilth should be ashamed of the biased lies they are spreading and these guillable snowflakes are ignorant in believing - can change history and in time I will be ashamed of those “today” not of those 76 years ago
Wow they are actually doing the right thing for once
Best post I've ever seen from scumnews
I’m just here for the lefty tears.😂😂😂😂😂
Make it 5 years for every demonstrator on the street without planning ascent.
Keir_Starmer this can't be true surely? Do you want Labour to survive as a party that is really an alternative to the Tories? I've always voted Labour & I rate my MP DawnButlerBrent but I won't be able to if this is the best you can do around anti-Black racism.
Labour will support the gov in introducing prison sentences of up to 10 yrs for those who desecrate war memorials. Churchill statue being a war memorial... badenpowell too? RobertClive? EdwardColston? Can we have rational discourse before knee-jerk politics? EndRacism
It's 'virtue-signalling' to right-wingers. A stupid gesture that solves nothing. Embarrassing. There is absolutely no need for a specific law to punish the vandalisation of war memorials with draconian jail sentences. It is already an offence to vandalise public monuments.
so sexual assault perpetrators get the same max sentencing as vandalising.... makes sense Keir_Starmer
Completely support this!
Deport them for life or hang them be a better idea
Can we make sure paedophiles and rapists get at least 15 years or even better, life for their heinous crime?
This is an idol threat! You don’t even get that for stabbing someone.
What does urinating against a memorial for a murdered hero police officer get you?
Should be 10 years in prison for racism around the world if founded guilty and that means Boris Johnson would be in prison by now
That must be a lie
Starmer is determined not to rise to the bait. Not sure of the ins and outs but if Labour are going to have a shot then he’s right.
NeishaWong In a jail in Afghanistan
Isn’t the Criminal Damage Act maximum 10 years anyway. So the law is there already, just needs the criminal courts to be given sentencing guidelines. Easy as that !
defacing a war memorial should be a life sentence, after all the soldiers lost their lives in the war
Did they get the idea from North Korea or the CCP? Pay for the damage sure, but how the holy fuck is kidnapping them and holding them in a cage moral?
They won't get 10 years, or anything like it. You need to ask what the *minimum* sentence in this proposed Bill would be? Judges seldom impose the maximum sentence for a crime. Even when they do, the convicts serve only a fraction of the time in jail.