I'll tell you what pisses me off about this kind of bullshit. It's the implication that to be strong on law and order, or patriotic, you need to be on the far right and believe that prison should be caves filled with spiky dildos, lava and giant spiders. It's laughable.
You've only got to look at the behaviour of the 'Free Tommy' twats towards the police to see how much respect they've really got for the law. Hypocritical cunts. Compare and contrast with, for example, the last 'lefty' TUC march in London... tens of thousands, no arrests. So who are the real lunatics here, eh?
And by the same logic, if we need to make prison an unbearable option for criminals, would it be OK if Tommy got raped and tortured in jail too? I mean he's a convicted criminal, and for far more than just the one offence.
(Btw anyone who thinks prison is an easy option hasn't really bothered to keep up with the news... right-wingers in particular seem to struggle with cognitive bias on this issue.)
Moving along, I can tell you now why the racists and far-right nutters always lose in the end. They try to make everything about race (or these days, religion) but deep down they know what they're saying doesn't make sense. Because of that embarassment they need to hide their beliefs except behind the anonymity of social media, or when they've got enough thuggish mates standing behind them. Me, even though I work in a very conservative (big and small c) type of industry, I never feel obliged to hide my politics behind a "I'm not a ... but".
So mercifully, and despite all of the hate-filled bigotry and shoe-horned racism that's on the rise, there are still more reasonable people around than rabid nutters. But I think it's important to challenge the idiocy every time it pops up because clearly there are still plenty of easily led people out there. Bless 'em, some of these precious little snowflakes need someone to blame for their lot in life, but they find it a bit too hard to think for themselves.