Why keep Anders Breivik alive?

77 lives, mostly very young lives, were ended by Anders Breivik. Another 240 were injured as he bombed and shot innocent people.

He isn't insane. He's an evil human being who committed pre-meditated murder on the basis of his own warped world view. He planned these attacks and carried them out.

And now? 21 years in prison. A prison life where he will no doubt be well fed, clothed, watered and protected by other inmates at a cost to the families who have lost loved ones to his blood lust.

He will need to be separated and kept away from other prisoners. Even those who have committed heinous crimes themselves will want to extinguish the life of a man who targeted children. Taxpayers will pay to keep this beast alive. Why?

This is cut and dry. He committed these crimes. He meant to. It may be all well and good to play the bleeding heart angle but seriously: if your child or mum or father had been shot down by this animal, would you really think justice was him being looked after in an isolated, private part of a prison? I would want him dead in a heartbeat.

The death penalty in cases such as this is not about stooping to his level. It is about a punishment that fits the crime. For Anders Breivik to be kept alive and protected by the state is surely a sick perversion of true human justice.

Conservatives are getting very rattled about UKIP.

So Daniel Hannan, the Conservative Party's only anti-EU MEP, wants an electoral pact with UKIP at the next General Election. This is significant.

It demonstrates the increasing popularity of UKIP and the likely impact it will have at the next General Election which does, after all, come just one year after the 2014 European Election that UKIP could win outright.

Don't forget at the last General Election, then-UKIP Leader Lord Pearson's private but direct offer of a pact to the Conservatives was utterly ignored by the party.

I don't think any such pact will happen next time round, for a myriad of reasons. Very few Tory candidates are actually anti-EU in terms of advocating withdrawal - they number about a dozen or so. UKIP is developing beyond a party that only cares about this issue anyway.

As for the notion of David Cameron instructing candidates to stand down in seats to give UKIP a clear run? I won't hold my breath.

The truth is that Daniel Hannan belongs in UKIP. The Conservative Party, as it left Stuart Wheeler, Lord Hesketh and Hannan's former colleague Roger Helmer, has left him. A Tory Prime Minister is in office and is presiding over a shambolic government that is increasing the amount we give to Brussels, that stands against grammar schools and which generally buys into the notion of a high tax economy.

Britain's foreign criminal base is a revolving-door.

There was an interesting documentary last night on Channel 4, the topic being pickpockets in London. These uncaring individuals pick out victims to nick items from, in many cases the type of items that hold on them irreplaceable photos and family videos.

One thing that struck me, though it isn't exactly news, is the amount of foreign criminals coming to London for a life of organised crime. Mercenaries from across Europe use the EU's open borders to enter Britain and make a fortune by thieving. compared to the paltry wages on offer for honest graft back home, the risk/reward ratio is tantalising.

The problem is that the worst that can happen to these people is that they are arrested, convicted and put in prison - though it remains extremely difficult to actually receive a custodial sentence in the UK given how full our prisons are. Even the deterrent of UK prison just doesn't cut it though.

After all, with cable TV for good behaviour, astro turf football pitches, pool tables, gyms and the rest, our prisons are like a Butlins compared to the harsh conditions that hardened foreign criminals are used to. Human rights gone mad has led to a cushdy life for criminal scum, even if they are caught.

And so after putting these scumbags away for short terms, funded by the British taxpayer, they come out. They can't be deported due to the EU's open borders and so back out on the streets they go with their criminal gangs, with nothing to lose and targets around them everywhere.

Our foreign criminal base needs to be dealt with and the remedy is really quite straight forward. Take back our borders. Only allow in those who we require economically. Kick out those who commit crime. Ensure that Britain's prisons are places that you notoriously do not want to end up doing time in.