26th March 2008, 01:26 PM
I certainly haven't used the phrase 'victimless crime', as I don't believe in it - its a nonsense dreamt up to suggest that white collar criminals are a cut above their working class counterparts, and should be treated with understanding and sympathy rather than penal servitude, as their crimes don't really harm anyone. In fact, they cause far more misery to far more people than any burglary. This includes insurance fraudsters, by the way (the middle class equivalent of benefit cheats). They seem to think of themselves as 'offenceless offenders'.
You're quite right about the effect of increased premiums on all of us, though, so in that context my comment about property theft was crasser than I meant it to be.
You're quite right about the effect of increased premiums on all of us, though, so in that context my comment about property theft was crasser than I meant it to be.