As for the OP, I see what they are saying and I am quite sympathetic to their point.
While the practises seen on Watchdog are not technical theft, they are usually in breach of civil trading laws and occasionally low level fraud. When more serious, the net effect on the victim is the same as a straightforward theft would be, they are still out of pocket at the end of the day. It's vastly more complicated than that in reality, but I think the legislation could do with an update to protect people a little more.
This is what I'm struggling to word correctly. I used watchdog as the example as thats. Simple Shop Theft is so easily defined and prosecuted accordingly. But the likes of the people on Watchdog where they could simply take the money and either not do a good job, or nothing at all. They are basically stealing but not getting prosecuted or at least certainly the repercussions are not equal.
Good example is during the London riots someone went into a shop and stole a bottle of water and now has a criminal record, but the above do they get a criminal record?
The same is happening on a larger scale with businesses e.g. VW emissions scandal, or The whole financial crash even, Tescos financial lies and now recently BT with their italian side business accounting scandal. No doubt this is going on in a lot of places just not come to light.
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This is what I'm struggling to word correctly. I used watchdog as the example as thats. Simple Shop Theft is so easily defined and prosecuted accordingly. But the likes of the people on Watchdog where they could simply take the money and either not do a good job, or nothing at all. They are basically stealing but not getting prosecuted or at least certainly the repercussions are not equal.
Good example is during the London riots someone went into a shop and stole a bottle of water and now has a criminal record, but the above do they get a criminal record?
The same is happening on a larger scale with businesses e.g. VW emissions scandal, or The whole financial crash even, Tescos financial lies and now recently BT with their italian side business accounting scandal. No doubt this is going on in a lot of places just not come to light.