Decline is a choice, and the United Kingdom -- that once great empire -- has chosen to wither and die.
Now, authorities are going to stop treating shoplifting as a crime. Probably because they're too busy arresting Grandma for 'mean' Facebook posts:
Police have 'basically abandoned' treating shoplifting like a crime, a senior executive at Mike Ashley’s retail empire has claimed.
Chris Wootton, chief financial officer at Frasers, which owns Sports Direct, Flannels and House of Fraser, said that its stores had seen an uptick in crime and questioned whether theft was being treated seriously by authorities.
He said: 'It doesn’t help that the police have basically abandoned shoplifting as a crime.'
Frustration has been growing among retailers who are battling an epidemic of shoplifting and assaults on staff across the UK, which is costing them billions of pounds.
Stores will close, crime will continue to skyrocket, and then someone will come along promising to fix it all with an iron fist.
But at least everyone who remains is equally poor, hungry, and victimized.
Fairness!
And 'hate speech.'
They would only charge native Britons and not immigrants.
'Cause racism.
It's only fair.
But someone, somewhere, might commit ungoodthink and we have to have police available to arrest them.
The criminals are also very happy about this.
To turn the U.K. into an Orwellian nightmare.
The U.K. is broken.
They won't tolerate that bigotry.
Yup.
It will.
On the upside, Sharia Law actually punishes shoplifters.
Yeah, it involves cutting off the thief's hand, but he won't shoplift again.