“I’m gonna get lit” Thank you Keir.

This has been a ticking time bomb for years now. So how come Labour seem to getting all the blame for it?

nanaK54

Is that what 'I'm gonna get lit' means'?
I'm not sure that it does, will have to consult with some young people.
I wonder what the answer is to the prison overcrowding? What would the Conservative party have done if they were still in power?
I think we do need to acknowledge that the situation has not been caused by the Labour party.

Here you go;

I don’t know why he’s going to get lit when he leaves prison. He would have had a wide choice of drugs while he was in there 🤷‍♀️

"I'm going to get lit up"
(When the lights go on in London)

Popular song about getting drunk on alcohol.
Performed by the Savoy Orpheans, written in the 1940s

I’ve just been listening to Jeremy Vine’s programme. What the experts said was that a Tory government was already planning to do exactly the same, that there was no other option because the current prisons are unsafe, and that this has reached the point it has because of a lack of action in the past.

Labour are being scapegoated for past poor management - and what was clear is that in the short term there are no other solutions.

It can mean happy, awesome, exciting, as well as high.
A song can be lit, a situation. a celebration, a piece of clothing, or a person.
Perhaps in this case the man means drunk or high, but if he stopped dealing drugs, well...

Is that what 'I'm gonna get lit' means'?
I'm not sure that it does, will have to consult with some young people.
I wonder what the answer is to the prison overcrowding? What would the Conservative party have done if they were still in power?
I think we do need to acknowledge that the situation has not been caused by the Labour party.

Apart from the one who is going to get lit.

If that's the most exciting thing these released prisoners can think of doing, then Heaven help us all. I agree there'll be worse to come.

Rekarie

Tony Blair did it as well.

Clearly we have a completed broken system which no govt has addressed for decades, it would seem.

Don’t think ANYONE is happy about this!

Tony Blair did it as well.

It seems it would have been no different under the previous govt

www.ft.com/content/02ffc485-d99e-4010-af20-6a5313379f28

Much worse imo and I was willing to give Labour a chance but honestly what a nightmare.

I doubt there were many who anticipated what change was going to mean.

I really can't believe all the horrible things that have been happening since Labour got in.

It was terrible before, but I can't help thinking it is now worse!

Unfortunately Sago I think you may be correct.