Mr. Bumble would have undoubtedly repeated his famous line at the news, reported in The Guardian today, that the UK Law Lords have:
decided, by a four-one majority, that the pair, who spent more than 12 years in jail for a murder they did not commit, must pay the "living expenses" they incurred in prison and which have been deducted from their compensation package. The law lords said the deduction, which amounted to around £50,000 each, should not be seen as board and lodging, but as expenses they would have had to pay from their earnings if they had been free.
Absurd doesn’t even begin to describe this. As one commenter in the Guardian notes, and as I’ve said before, Terry Gilliam’s Brazil increasingly looks like less of a satire and more of a prescient factual documentary of today’s society.
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