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Nearly three thefts a minute are being reported by shops amid a growing shoplifting epidemic, official figures show.

Shoplifting hit a record high of 530,643 offences reported to police in the year to March, a 20 per cent increase on the previous year’s total of 444,022.

The rate of shoplifting is nearly double the rate two decades ago, according to the figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)

This isn't a problem according to many on the left.

Self-service doesn't help the situation, of course. Especially when the till is sited right at the back of the shop.

Yet in Norway, when the road you are driving along comes to a fjord, so you drive on the ferry and go upstairs for a snack during the twenty minute crossing, they don't bother to staff their shipboard canteens any more. They just put all the cakes and sandwiches out, have a coffee machine at the end, and you go to the self checkout and tell the machine what you have taken, and pay.

Greggs have implemented this, but without the paying bit.

"Police raid on 'Epping migrant hotel protester': Suspect is arrested at his home as a ring of steel is put up around two taxpayer-funded asylum seeker centres amid fears of riots"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14937239/Moment-police-arrest-Epping-migrant-hotel-protester.html

“I’d got home after a peaceable day chanting racist slogans and politely throwing bricks at the police. I was innocently typing a tweet advocating setting fire to immigrants when the police arrested me. The vicious, fascist thugs.”

It's another egregious example of two tier policing. Totally different approaches taken to people who commit a crime compared to those who haven't.

Comments like that will get you cancelled.

It’s “members of The Legally Challenged Community”

Q. Why did the lawyer cross the road?

A. I can't tell you for legal reasons.

{narrator : he was immediately sent to jail for contempt of court, under a super injunction, for that answer}

Nearly three thefts a minute are being reported by shops amid a growing shoplifting epidemic, official figures show.

Shoplifting hit a record high of 530,643 offences reported to police in the year to March, a 20 per cent increase on the previous year’s total of 444,022.

The rate of shoplifting is nearly double the rate two decades ago, according to the figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)

This isn't a problem according to many on the left.

Really? Who on the left says it isn't a problem?

I think it's the formulation whereby if you don't repeatedly opine that it's one of the very gravest issues we face, and a definitive sign of the country going to hell in a handcart, this equates to saying it's not a problem.

Just read that this year UK government will borrow 140 billion, of which 110 will be needed to cover interest on existing borrowing!

Why is no-one talking about this?

Kemi had a go and then got shouted down by simpletons. The Tories have to go into the election being the party that tells the unvarnished truth to voters. It may or may not work but something has got to change or we're heading for ruin.

What's interesting is that for every £25bn the government cuts out of spending there would be another £6-8bn cut from the debt interest bill due to falling inflation and bond yields. Labour chose this when they decided to add £60bn per year to government spending, they've pushed up inflation with unnecessary tax rises to pay for their spending binge and gold plated pay rises for the public sector which has resulted in a huge interest bill, falling bond prices which means the BoE quantitative tightening scheme becomes more expensive.

The UK is in a vicious cycle of tax rises not yielding enough resulting in higher borrowing which drives bond prices down as the government increases supply and round and round we go. Someone has got to say enough is enough, tell the pampered public sector fatcats they're out of a job, sack 1m of them within two years, cut the benefits bill by 20%, axe the triple lock, taper the state pension for retirees with more than £40k in private income and probably bring the 45p rate down to £50k and push up the 20p rate to 23p.

Fundamentally we need to start thinking about living within our means and that means for a lot of people things will become more difficult and a lot of people will have to sacrifice an extra holiday or buy a smaller car because they can't afford to do it any longer. That's the truth of where we are as a nation.

Nearly three thefts a minute are being reported by shops amid a growing shoplifting epidemic, official figures show.

Shoplifting hit a record high of 530,643 offences reported to police in the year to March, a 20 per cent increase on the previous year’s total of 444,022.

The rate of shoplifting is nearly double the rate two decades ago, according to the figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)

This isn't a problem according to many on the left.

Self-service doesn't help the situation, of course. Especially when the till is sited right at the back of the shop.

Yet in Norway, when the road you are driving along comes to a fjord, so you drive on the ferry and go upstairs for a snack during the twenty minute crossing, they don't bother to staff their shipboard canteens any more. They just put all the cakes and sandwiches out, have a coffee machine at the end, and you go to the self checkout and tell the machine what you have taken, and pay.