There won’t always be an England, Part 3481904380912 *UPDATED*

Two stories from today’s British news:

I

Two young men pounced on a stranger on a London street, stabbed him, slit his throat, and ran off, leaving him to bleed to death on the street. That’s sad, but that’s not the news. This is the news:

Britain’s most senior judge, Lord Chief Justice Phillips, has advised that those discovered with knives for the first time should escape with a community order.

He added that mitigating circumstances, such as the weapon only being carried for a short time, could even lessen the penalty to a fine.

II

And how about this one:

A nearly-blind war veteran of 96 was snubbed by binmen who refused to empty his recycling wheelie bin because he had dropped two glass jars into it by mistake.

Great-grandad Lenny Woodward, who fought as a Desert Rat in World War Two, was confused about new recycling rules and was told the bin would not be emptied until the Nescafe and ketchup jars had been removed.

The pensioner, who walks with a stick, said it was impossible for him to bend down and retrieve the jars – and the binmen had simply left them.

[snip]

Mr Woodward’s outraged daughter and carer, Vicky Marshall, 46, added: “I am absolutely furious about this.

“You would think they would take into account that he’s 96 and that they could make some concessions for him. But I was told on the phone by the council that these were the rules and they had to be obeyed.”

To which I would add that, once you create a state in which people are denied the right to think independently, it was perfectly logical for the garbage men (and I use that term to describe both their jobs and their personalities) to teach the old guy a lesson for running counter to government decreed behavioral norms.

UPDATE:  Just thought you’d find interesting that the stabbing in the first item, above, may have been very targeted.  The dead man was a suspect in a horrific rape and, ironically, in a knife attack.