Monday - August 18, 2008
They are heartily sick of the direction that Britain is taking .
A large number of Brits have had it and don’t want to take it anymore. I hope the folks in USA will take a look at this site. Who knows, maybe there’s hope after all. I sure hope so and yeah, I am gonna send em the £7.50 ($15) soon as I’ve posted this. I won’t hold my breath though because the loonies have gone on so long and so many have just accepted it as business as usual, that it’s very hard for me to get overly xcited. Like, remember Ross Perot?
That was the last time I thought there might have been hope in politics. I was wrong but had lots of good company.
Now then, here is where and how I found this very interesting site. In the Telegraph today.
This is just a very small part of his editorial comment but I really hope you you click on the link and read the whole thing.
Senseless red tape leaves society poorer
By Philip Johnston
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 18/08/2008Over the past week, the cavaliers must have fulminated mightily as eye-popping stupidities arrived more swiftly than a rain shower across a West Country beach: the soldier in full battle dress just back from Iraq thrown off a train because he had forgotten his pass; the wheelie bin that the council refused to collect because it was too far from the kerb; the former police officer arrested when he sought to detain some hooligans; the health and safety rules that have brought to an end a 150-year tradition of winding the town hall clock; the couple refused postal delivery because of “risky” steps to their house; the criminal-records checks needed for work-experience mentors. Would any of these things have happened 30 years, even 20 years ago?
What most infuriates people are the disproportionate requirements placed upon them by the state when all they seek to do is to help others and contribute to their communities. The ludicrous impositions placed on volunteers by the new Independent Safeguarding Authority were well documented in a letter on this page from Roger Howard.
He identified 14 different requirements, ranging from an equal opportunities policy to the establishment of a disciplinary procedure merely to qualify for £300 of funding in order to run a small community care group. Mr Howard hit the nail on the head when he wrote: “I do not think that the Government has any idea of the impact its recent legislation will have on volunteer groups.”
Who Are The Laughing Cavaliers?
The Laughing Cavaliers are a group of like minded individuals, ordinary men and women, who are heartily sick of the direction that Britain is taking and who seek to bring together other men and women from all walks of life who share their views, to turn the spotlight on those things which make life miserable for all of us and to change them.
The Laughing Cavalier movement is intended as an antidote to the puritanical attitude of the roundheads who are trying to make our lives a misery (and largely succeeding). The movement will give you a chance to hit back when you have been unfairly treated by roundheads.
There are far too many governmental organisations, local authorities, unelected bodies, self appointed, smug, self righteous groups of single issue zealots trying to tell us what to do, what not to do and lecturing us constantly. They are uniformly depressing and we mean to do something about it.
They love their country, its traditions, its ingenuity, its kindness and its tolerance and they make absolutely no apology for so doing. (This must be the only country in the world whose political and cultural elite, along with some of the Commentariat, seems to despise such a stance). They want to protect what is good from those Roundheads, who would seek to destroy all these things.
They prefer to retain their anonymity, as can all contributors to the Forums. The vindictive and vengeful nature of some of those bodies who may find themselves criticised by our contributors is well known. A certain amount of anonymity is therefore necessary, they feel. How sad that they have to say this in Britain but it is now so and is indicative of the power that some state funded institutions have taken to themselves. This is one of the very Stasi like attitudes that they seek to question.
They are of no importance themselves anyway. It is you, the contributors and the sponsors of polls and petitions, who are the drivers behind this movement.
They will not normally contribute to forums. They will however make various entries in the “Comments” section where contributions from Members on matters of the moment will also be considered for inclusion.
They do pay particular respect to those ladies and gentlemen of the press who are doing such a marvellous job, in many cases, in exposing wrongdoing, idiocy and arrogance by those who would be our masters and they would encourage these journalists to watch this site regularly for fresh incidences of bureaucracy gone mad as reported by contributors.
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Permalink • Wednesday - August 13, 2008
Card-playing pensioners landed with £250 health and safety bill .
EVERYTHING here is Elf ‘n’ Safety. Okay, Health and Safety. There. Said properly. But any way I say it, it’s spelled thus >>> royal pain in the arse.
Just ask any Brit.
So here are these older retired folks getting together for a game of cards. Simple enuff you might think. Not very complicated. Right? Ah well. Till gummint gets involved.
Generally as all know, gummints are made up of lots of bureaucrats with little or nothing to do. Which is really quite frustrating when you need to look busy to justify your pay packet to the people who are being robbed blind to pay the bill. But never mind, given enough time and thought these “crats” can always come up with things for the taxpayer to do or else not do, all according to the whim of those in power. Wouldn’t be so awfully bad if they had a real sense of humor. Like Macker and Drew for two zany examples. Tis better to be tickled to death then stabbed if you’re gonna get screwed. (financially speaking.) But that isn’t quite the way it works over here.
Card-playing pensioners landed with £250 health and safety bill
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 13/08/2008The 14 whist players - aged between 70 and 90 - met every Friday for almost 10 years in a communal room at a sheltered housing complex in Norfolk.
But officials at Neville Court, in Heacham, told the group they must pay liability insurance for all those who did not live at the complex before they could meet again.
Tom Coulstock, from Hunstanton, said the cheapest insurance the group could find was £250 a year, which would have to be paid in addition to the £1.50 a head entrance fee.
Just six of the players are residents and as none of the group can afford to pay the charge, the card-lovers have been forced to disband and re-locate elsewhere.
Freebridge Community Housing (FCH), which runs Neville Court which comprises 20 flats, said the insurance was “common practice”.
But player Bill Corbett, who lives nearby, said: “Perhaps they think that pensioners will attack one another with the playing cards? The situation is so stupid its laughable.
“Freebridge claim the insurance is a matter of course but you can’t tell me every group meeting needs public liability insurance.
“They are just trying to cover their own backs. We should not have to pay for that.”
Mr Corbett, 86, said the game took up five tables in a corner of the communal room and insisted there had never been any trouble in the club’s eight year history.
He said the six residents who live at the home find it hard to travel outside the premises.
“They don’t understand why they can’t have their friends over to play cards,” he said.
“It’s health and safety gone mad and it is short-sighted of Freebridge.”
Mr Coulstock said: “It’s a farce. If they offer room hire they should have the insurance cover in place for the service they offer.
“We won’t be using the room in the future. We’ll find somewhere that already has the insurance in place.”
Another player, who did not wish to be named, added: “It’s disgusting that Freebridge is more concerned about making sure no-one could ever sue them than ensuring their residents have a good quality of living.
“How on earth is someone going to injure themselves whilst playing cards?”
The card players were told they had been banned from the premises after their game on August 1.
Tony Hall, chief executive of FCH, said it was standard procedure to ensure members of the public using their facilities were insured.
“Freebridge Community Housing actively promotes the use of its community rooms as the social interaction of its elderly residents and people from the local community is a positive contribution to their lives,” he said.
“It is general practice that any room hire includes a requirement for insurance.
“This can be covered by the group, club insurance or could form part of the hire cost. Freebridge charges a nominal hire charge but then require individuals to organise their own insurance.
“The requirement has been in place for many years, but as Freebridge has recently updated the hire agreement it is checking that groups have their own insurance in place.
“I am surprised Mr Corbett has been quoted £250 for insurance and Freebridge will make enquiries with our own insurance company to see if alternative quotes are more competitive.”
FCH owns and manages around 7,000 properties for rent in the King’s Lynn and West Norfolk area.
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Permalink • Tesco plastic bags go under the counter: What? Are they filled with PORN? Gasp. More stupid stuf.
I reported on this insanity a week or more ago when the wife came home and told me about the new policy at the now gween supermarket.
But this is the official announcement I just spotted in the paper. It’s so totally stupid there aren’t enuff Moonbats here to award.
And of course the gummint is gonna get into things to gum up the works for sure. Jeez this was a great country once upon a time until the tree huggers and like minded twerps took control of the thinking of the public at large. Least that’s my take on it.
Well, like 100w light bulbs, we’re taking as many bags as we can get away with as they are also used for trash.
Something you folks in the USA might find of interest.
The plastic bags here all have these little holes punched in them so mommy’s little helper won’t smother itself should it decide to try and wear one. Thing is, many of these perforated bags don’t actually have the holes punched thru all the way. Parts of the plastic are still in place. But I suppose it’s really a good thing in a way as it’s one less responsibility the customer has to carry in this busy world. So much more comfortable to simply let the gummint think and do for us.
Notice to Macker: Notice not even the use of frak here.
Tesco plastic bags go under the counter in green move By David Thomas
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 13/08/2008Tesco is to stop the mass distribution of plastic carrier bags at its larger stores, in a move to boost its green credentials.
Government may stop supermarkets giving away plastic carrier bags
It has introduced a “bag on request” scheme at its larger “Extra” hypermarket stores, where bags are kept out of sight under the tills and only given out if customers specifically ask for them.
A spokesman for Tesco, the UK’s largest supermarket chain, denied that it would be banning bags entirely, saying that it was merely “offering choice” to its customers.
He also ruled out charging for bags. “While one-use carriers will no longer be on display at checkouts, customers can ask for them and they will be supplied without charge,” he said.
“A few Extras have been given the flexibility to remove bags from display but give them out on request.”
Plastic bags are the current bête noire of green campaigners. Up to 17 billion are currently given away annually – three billion by Tesco alone – and they take up to 1,000 years to decompose, taking a damaging toll on wildlife.
The Government has said that it will consider introducing a mandatory charge of up to 10p per bag unless retailers take greater steps to cut the number that are used.
Marks and Spencer, Aldi, Lidl and Netto already charge for carrier bags. And several towns, led by Modbury in Devon, have banned the distribution and use of plastic bags.
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Permalink • Wednesday - July 30, 2008
Dustmen refuse to empty ‘too-full’ bin - despite it overflowing because they were on strike.
Quite right too. We’re union men and we’ll get paid regardless and the public can just go to hell.
All is normal here in the nanny state. All together now folks. S o m a - S o m a -
By James Tozer
Last updated at 12:05 PM on 30th July 2008
Overflow: Steve Walton has had no rubbish collection for almost three weeks
As the dustmen were striking on collection day, it was no surprise that by the next week Stephen Walton’s wheelie bin was full to bursting.However, the father of four was taken aback when council staff returned to work - and wouldn’t collect his rubbish because the bin was too full.
The two- day walkout by refuse staff had prevented a collection planned for July 17.
So last Thursday, Mr Walton was looking forward to getting rid of the rubbish accumulating outside his home in Mirfield, Kirklees, West Yorkshire.
But when the binmen came round, they left his bin untouched - the only one in his street.
He called Kirklees Council to find out why, and was told that as the lid would not close, binmen were under orders not to empty it.
‘It’s ridiculous,’ the 37-year- old accountant said. ‘I completely admit that my bin lid wouldn’t shut properly, but that is purely because of the strike.’
Yesterday, three weeks’ worth of refuse was still piling up near his home. ‘It’s a mountain of rubbish - it’s probably 21/2ft clear of the rim now - and with all the hot weather we’re probably going to end up with rats,’ said Mr Walton, who lives with his wife Jane, also 37, and their children, Charlotte, 11, Laura, nine, Amy, seven, and 18-month- old Zachary.
‘There are a lot of us so we probably produce more waste than the average home, but that is not why the bin was overfilled.
‘It’s a total farce that the council workers can go on strike and then blame you for having too much rubbish. If they did what they are paid to do, then we wouldn’t be in this situation.’
Mr Walton, who pays £1,600 a year council tax, hopes the rubbish will be removed when the binmen return tomorrow for the usual weekly collection.
But Councillor Kath Pinnock, leader of the Liberal Democrat group on the council, fears things will get worse before they got better.
‘I’d bet anything that there will be more people expecting to have their bins collected this week for the first time in a month only to be told theirs are too full as well,’ she said.
‘The council should have organised additional collections - it’s been a complete disaster.’
Many parts of the Kirklees area have fortnightly collections, and there alone, 20,000 homes could face going a month without a bin collection.
The council, like many authorities, does not empty wheelie bins if they are too full for the lid to close.
Officials say that the machinery at the back of dustcarts can become blocked if bins swing open while being unloaded.
But the Conservative-controlled council said it had agreed a deal with the striking workers’ unions to clear the backlog.
Under the arrangement, the bins were left until the next scheduled collection and there was the option that bags of rubbish left next to bins could be picked up during an extra collection at the weekend.
Although this would largely apply to householders with fortnightly collections, if Mr Walton had requested that extra rubbish bags be removed, it is thought he may have been able to take advantage of the extra collection.
However, Mr Walton said he had not been told of the policy. He would have placed extra rubbish in separate bags if he had known this, he added.
A council spokesman said: ‘The joint trade unions would not give any concessions for catching up missed wheeled bins due to strike action, hence we have not responded to any such requests.’
The Daily Mail’s Great Bin Revolt campaign has highlighted widespread public anger at the growing number of councils introducing fortnightly collections, ostensibly to increase recycling.
In April, Gareth Corkhill, 26, from Whitehaven, West Cumbria, was given a criminal record after the lid of his jam-packed wheelie bin was left 4in ajar.
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Permalink • Tuesday - July 29, 2008
prevented from taking her own son to school because she hadn’t been screened for a criminal record.
I believe in today’s loony tune world kids really do need a closer eye kept on them. But isn’t this taking big brother a bit far?
This story is a bit old I grant ya. About 11 days. But that does not make it any less bizarre or interesting.
Mother prevented from taking own son to school because of criminal record checks
A woman was prevented from taking her own son to school because she hadn’t been screened for a criminal record.
By Caroline Gammell
Last Updated: 10:30PM BST 18 Jul 2008Jayne Jones had been escorting 14-year-old severely epileptic Alex each day by taxi, taking specialist equipment with her in case he had a fit.
But the mother-of-two was told she would not be allowed to continue doing so until her details had been run through a Criminal Record Bureau (CRB) check.
The case came to light only days after it emerged that hundreds of innocent people were branded criminals by the CRB, which was set up to vet people working with children.
Figures seen by The Daily Telegraph showed that in the year to February 2008, 680 people were issued with incorrect information on their background checks by the CRB.
Last week a woman who was wrongly labelled a violent alcoholic and drug addict by the CRB was told she would have to allow police to take her fingerprints if she wanted to clear her name.
Amanda Hodgson, 36, a law-abiding mother-of-three, learned of her “criminal past’’ when applying for a post as a welfare assistant at her local primary school.
She was told she had a criminal record stretching back 18 years, including three convictions for assaulting police officers, and the only way to clear her name was to get her fingerprints checked against every unsolved crime in the country.
Mrs Jones, from Aberfan in south Wales, said stopping her taking her son - who has cerebral palsy - to school was “political correctness gone mad”.
“It’s crazy that I have to be CRB checked before I can ride in a taxi with my own son,” she said.
“I have to be checked to go in a taxi with him, but if I was able to drive him myself they wouldn’t care and even offered to pay me expenses.
“The taxi company is great and they carry Alex’s medication but they won’t use it and they wouldn’t know how to put him in the recovery position if needs be.”
Alex, who takes a combination of 32 anti-convulsant tablets a day, is currently travelling to his special needs school five miles away in Merthyr Tydfil with no one trained to cope if he has an attack.
He has been fitted with the Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) therapy system under the skin, which works like a pacemaker to help control electrical signals which can malfunction and cause him to seize.
But his parents are the only ones trained to use and understand the therapy.
His 42-year-old father Malcolm has a full-time job and Mrs Jones is the boy’s full-time carer.
A spokesman from Merthyr Tydfil Council said: “The CRB checking is a requirement of our transport provisions in relation to adults travelling on home-to-school transport in the capacity of an escort.
“This is a standard requirement and has been for several years.
(you just know the following has been written by lawyers. Wanna take a stab at how far this thinking can be carried?)
“Any adult acting as an escort will, in the public gaze, be viewed as acting with the full acquiescence of the council and hence with its implied authority.“For the protection of the council and all vulnerable persons in its care it’s essential all those endowed with an authority, implicit or explicit, should meet the security requirements within the transport contract provisions.”
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Permalink • Handyman fined for smoking in van. (Moonbat Tuesday?)
Here we go again with the health police. I think ppl have way too much time for stuff like this.
I’m a few days late so perhaps you’ve seen this. I came across the story in a pile of work I have and just dug down to it.
I’ve read this kind of thing before of course so it doesn’t surprise me at all. I think what really surprises me most is how much of this nonsense folks are willing to put up with. I’d have thought with the kinds of technology and advances made in medicine and more ppl having more access to books and education then ever before, we’d produce a smarter culture. But it really doesn’t look that way at all. Seems to be going the other way.
From MSN News.
A painter and decorator who received a £30 fine for smoking in his own van has warned that British civil liberties are “going up in smoke”.
Gordon Williams, 58, of Llanafan, near Aberystwyth, west Wales, was on the way to buy tea bags for his wife when he was slapped with a fixed penalty fine.
A passenger in his van, who had also just lit up, received a £30 on-the-spot fixed penalty notice under the new anti-smoking laws as well.
But the self-employed painter and decorator hit out claiming the fine was unjustified and unfair because his van is a private vehicle.
He has lodged an appeal with Ceredigion County Council and claims Britain is sleepwalking into a “Big Brother-style” society.
The blue Suzuki van belonging to Mr Williams was undergoing a routine check by police in Llanbadarn Fawr, outside Aberystwyth, earlier this month.
The married grandfather had just lit up when a Ceredigion County Council official approached him and dished out the on-the-spot fine.
He said: “I was just having a cigarette and causing no bother to anyone else. But this is like Big Brother is watching you.”
A spokesman for the council said: “It would be inappropriate for Ceredigion County Council to comment on individual cases.
“The legislation allows for a right of appeal and the procedures in relation to this are set out in the notices.”
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Permalink • Saturday - July 26, 2008
Health and safety killjoys tell war veterans they are too old to hoist the Union Flag over town hall
oh man ya just gotta weep for what was once Great Britain. these H and S folks are gonna finish what uncontrolled immigration and pol. correctness have started.
ok sure. many of these guys are pretty old. but there are guys older then me that are in better shape. and why can’t the idividual himself decide if he can handle it? I guess it also part of the fear of being sued that could also have something to do with this. Whatever, this Health and Safety thing has become a curse.
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 1:38 AM on 26th July 2008
Up in arms: Veterans John Ireland (right) and Keith Hutchins in front of the town hall
In their younger days, they risked death and injury to fight for their country against the Nazis and other enemies.
But, now, war veterans who want to fly the Union Flag proudly above their town hall are being defeated by a barrage of health and safety rules.
Royal British Legion members had scented victory after fighting for months to hoist the flag permanently in Calne, Wiltshire.
The council suggested handing over the operation to the veterans - but then landed them with a 50-point list of rules banning anyone with a wide range of health conditions from going on the roof.
All the branch’s 84 members are over 60 and suffer from a variety of ailments which would stop them going up a ladder to raise the flag.
The council report rules out anyone taking prescription medicines or with a history of heart problems, asthma, stroke, high or low blood pressure, epilepsy, fear of heights, depression, poor sight, mobility problems or diabetes.
Councillor John Ireland, 61, who is also branch chairman and served in the Army for 27 years, said: ‘We have fought bravely and many of us risked our lives in a world war.
‘We are perfectly capable of going up a ladder a few feet to put a flag up on a roof.
‘All the council is trying to do is find excuses to stop flying the flag.
‘They have been very sneaky. What they gave in one hand, they took away in the other, knowing full well none of us is fit enough to match those rules.’
The report adds that anyone raising the flag would have to undergo training courses in ‘working at height’ and ‘manual handling’.
They would also have to be kitted out in safety footwear and weatherproof clothing.The 25ft flagpole is on a section of flat roof accessed via a ladder through a skylight.
But the veterans cannot ask younger non-members to help as they have to be covered by the RBL’s £10million insurance policy.
The 26ft flagpole is on a 30ft roof - but the war veterans insist it is no challenge
The dispute began last November when the 19-member council rejected Mr Ireland’s proposal to fly the Union Flag permanently.Opponents cited the £80 annual cost and said the flag would lose significance if flown every day.
But legion members claim the council is being politically-correct as it fears being labelled racist.
Mr Ireland believed the veterans had won when the council agreed to consider handing over the control and cost of the flagpole.
But days later, town hall clerk Linda Roberts produced the lengthy rules for councillors to consider before voting on the idea.
She suggests a ‘less risky option’, such as flying the flag from the side of the council building or from another building in the town.
Branch treasurer Margaret Russell added: ‘The health and safety rules are just the latest hurdle the council has put in our way. It is our flag and we should be proud of it.’
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Permalink • Thursday - July 24, 2008
WE MUST ALL DO OUR BIT TO SAVE THE PLANET. SO LET’S GO GWEEN
My first post after an off day and what a coincidence. Drew has a really terrific post on a subject I was going to lead with based on some doings on this side of the Atlantic. The lunacy is everywhere and it doesn’t show signs of ending anytime soon. So may I suggest to all of you that you please do your bit now. Later may be too late.
Follow my example, photo below, and start collecting 100W light bulbs.
Not good enough my light bulb that performs exactly as intended - No - The Gween planet savers want me to change to their more expensive and useless to my needs dim yellow glow. You folks know what I’m talking about. Can you honestly read by those eco-friendly bulbs being pushed by the planet savers?
According to their lights I’m an idiot if I reject their arguments with regard to my rejection of their chosen illumination.
There has been serious talk by the EU and it’s being accepted here in UK (of course it is) that the standard and dastardly light that lights well, must go.
They even have a target to the switch off. Well folks, here’s my answer.
And this is only the beginning. There are only 58 showing here but there are a few more behind, and some 150s not shown. It has become our policy now to buy 100W light bulbs every week when the wife does a grocery shop at TESCO. That’s a major chain and I have to tell you honestly they put most of ours back home to shame in some areas. However, poor,poor Tesco also does some very silly things. Like caving in to browbeating by a newspaper here called The Daily Mail, which has gotten onto an ecological high horse calling for the restriction or outright banning of plastic grocery bags.
One major grocery chain is now charging customers 10 cents a bag at the checkout. Tesco for their part, has pulled the stacks of plastic bags from the end of the checkout line, and is putting out three bags at a time. Customers must ask for more as needed. Doesn’t matter if you have a cart full of groceries, you must ask for extra bags. All this in an effort to force ppl to bring their own bags to market. One problem I see is - how does a customer know exactly from week to week what her/his needs will be? Just how many of your own bags are you supposed to bring into the store? Your needs may differ from week to week. I think I should let my American audience know that over here, most major grocery shops do not use baggers as we do back home. Customers bag their own stuff altho you can get help if needed.
There’s already one or two small towns that have announced proudly that they are, “Plastic Bag Free.” I’ve no idea how that works or what they’ve done to achieve such an exalted ecological status.
So, my wife went to the market this week and after getting the politically correct three bags, asked for more which they gave her. She pointed out that she had a weeks worth of groceries in her cart, that three bags at a time only succeeded in holding the line up. Since she was there there at a time when the store
wasn’t too busy and there was nobody else behind her, she started putting only one or two items in a bag and kept asking for more, which they gave with no argument. Since Tesco caved in to the Daily Mail’s daily harangue, my wife asked why Tesco did not point out the following with regard to the highly damaging, planet destroying plastic bag.
THESE ARE DEGRADABLE !!!
THE CASHIER WAS SURPRISED AT THE PRINT ON THE BAG, SAYING HE’D NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE. I BET TESCO DIDN’T EITHER AND CERTAINLY THE MAIL
DIDN’T EITHER, BEFORE GOING AFTER TESCO TOOTH AND NAIL FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS. JUST SHOWS YA HOW MUCH RESEARCH THE MAIL DOES, AND HOW SINCERE THEIR POLITICALLY CORRECT CAMPAIGN REALLY IS.
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Permalink • Monday - July 21, 2008
GREETINGS TO ALL COMRADS AMERIKA/ENGLAND, GOOD NEWS COMRADS.
THE BRIT HOME IS STILL A BRIT’S CASTLE. HE/SHE IS JUST SUB-LEASING TO THE GOVT. SEE HOW EASY THAT IS?
Labour has nearly doubled the number of laws that give officials access to your home
By Andy Bloxham
Last Updated: 11:09PM BST 20/07/2008More than a 1,000 laws now exist that allow the authorities into homes, it has emerged.
The 1,043 laws – nearly half of which have been introduced under Labour – include the right to inspect pot plants for pests, to measure the height of hedges, to search bedrooms for asylum seekers and to look at fridges for their energy rating.
The information will heighten fears among campaigners that Britain is becoming a “Big Brother” society. The Conservatives claimed that the list of powers of entry was “quietly slipped out” without a press release on the Home Office website.
A total of 420 new powers of entry have been introduced by Labour since it came to power in 1997. Sixteen more are contained in laws due to be approved by Parliament in the next few weeks.
The Plant Health (England) Order 2005 allows inspectors to enter homes to see if plants have pests or if certain types of plants have been smuggled in without a “plant passport”.
Section 74 of The Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003 allows councils to check if a hedge is too high.
The Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 can be used to allow officials to ensure accommodation provided to asylum seekers is not being used by others.
Although it is aimed at business, the Energy Information (Household Refrigerators and Freezers) Regulations 2004 can also be used to seize fridges with an incorrect energy rating.
Council bin inspectors already have the authority to enter homes and take photographs for evidence. Those who obstruct them face the threat of a £5,000 fine.
The Tories said the development was proof that Gordon Brown was reneging on his promise to curtail such laws by introducing a “liberty test” to limit state intrusion.
Eric Pickles, the shadow communities secretary, said: “Day by day under Labour, the rights and liberties of law-abiding citizens are being eroded.”
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Permalink • Saturday - July 05, 2008
Students allegedly disciplined after refusing to kneel down and “pray to Allah”
I’d like to write something biting and snarky and clever. Mind a blank. I keep thinking, maybe this is simply a mistake in reporting by The Telegraph.
They’ll do a retraction soon. ? What are the chances this is real?
In other headlines from this side of the water,
Sex Ed for FOUR YEAR OLDS is back on the agenda.
Knife Crime Eclipses Terrorism as a top police priority.
By Nick Britten
Last Updated: 12:37AM BST 05/07/2008Two schoolboys were allegedly disciplined after refusing to kneel down and “pray to Allah” during a religious education lesson.
“I am absolutely furious my daughter was made to take part in it and I don’t find it acceptable”
Karen Williams, parentIt was claimed that the boys, from a year seven class of 11 and 12-year-olds, were given detention after refusing to take part in a practical demonstration of how Allah is worshipped.
Yesterday parents accused the school of breaching their human rights by forcing them to take part in the exercise.
One, Sharon Luinen, said: “This isn’t right, it’s taking things too far. I understand that they have to learn about other religions. I can live with that but it is taking it a step too far to be punished because they wouldn’t join in Muslim prayer.
“Making them pray to Allah, who isn’t who they worship, is wrong and what got me is that they were told they were being disrespectful.”
Another parent Karen Williams, 38, whose 12-year-old daughter is a classmate of the boys, said: “I am absolutely furious my daughter was made to take part in it and I don’t find it acceptable.
“The teacher had gone into the class and made them watch a short film and then said ‘we are now going out to pray to Allah’.
“Then two boys got detention and all the other children missed their refreshments’ break.”
She added: “Not only was it forced upon them, my daughter was told off for not doing it right.
“They’d never done it before and they were supposed to do it in another language.”
She said the pupils were asked if they had water on them, and when one girl produced a bottle, the teacher began washing her feet with it.
Her husband Keith, 44, a painter and decorator, said: “The school is wonderful but this one teacher has made a major mistake. It seems to be happening throughout society. People think they can ride roughshod over our beliefs and the way we live.”
The alleged incident, at the Alsager school, one of Cheshire’s top performing schools, happened on Tuesday afternoon. The teacher, Alison Phillips, the school’s subject leader in RE, is understood to be staying away from the school until the furore dies down, although she has not been suspended.
She is said to have got prayer mats out of the cupboard and also asked children to wear Islamic headdresses.
Deputy headmaster Keith Plant said: “I have spoken to the teacher and she has articulately given me her version of events.”
Sources at the school said the incident could have been down to Miss Phillips instigating a role play and not properly briefing the pupils, all aged around 12, what she was doing.
A spokesman for Cheshire County Council said they were investigating. He added: “The headteacher contacted the authority immediately complaints were received. Enquiries are being made into the circumstances as a matter of urgency and all parents will be informed accordingly.
“Educating children in the beliefs of different faiths is part of Cheshire’s diversity curriculum on the basis that knowledge is, of course, is essential to understanding.
“We accept that such teaching has to be conducted with commonsense and sensitivity.”
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Permalink • Sunday - June 22, 2008
WILD OUT OF CONTROL BRIT COLLEGE GIRLS MUST BE CONTAINED. more silly pc stuff
I don’t know if many folks miss this sort of thing by a Sunday posting. It’s stupidly funny tho.
I don’t know what normal male would be “offended” by the attention of young women. This really is over the top.
College girls banned from whistling at builders
By Rupert NeateA further education college is having to protect builders from wolf-whistling girls, in a reversal of traditional gender stereotypes.
(right. those big burly guys on construction sites really wanna be protected from those lascivious, drooling and manipulative hungry oversexed young women. Hear em all cry? Mommy,mommy. Save me! Oh thank you NANNY. Those beastie ladies scared us.)Officials at West Kent College in Tonbridge, Kent, sent an email to all pupils warning that the behaviour was “totally unacceptable”, and saying any students caught harassing contractors would face disciplinary action.
The email was sent after a demolition team started work on a £94 million, three-year building project at the campus.
The email read: “It has come to the attention of the college that some female students have been making comments to, or whistling at, the builders both whilst on site and as they walk around the campus.
“Although we are sure no offence is meant, this constitutes harassment and is wholly unacceptable.
“We have asked the contractors’ representative to pass on all instances of harassment to the college and we will take appropriate action which may include disciplinary action.”
A spokeswoman for the contractors, Galliford Try, said: “We have no registered complaints on this issue. However we do not condone inappropriate behaviour from any parties on our sites.”
Meanwhile new laws could see wolf-whistling builders placed on the sex offenders register. The Sexual Offences (Scotland) Bill will create a new offence of “communicating indecently”, punishable by up to 10 years in jail.
The legislation is intended to punish sexual harassment by text, emails and letters, but ministers also aim to include sexually explicit comments to strangers. It is expected that the law would only apply to persistent offenders.
At the moment, workmen who repeatedly make obscene comments to passers-by can be convicted of a breach of the peace.
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Permalink • Wednesday - June 18, 2008
On the run? Count it as time served, convicts told. (more moonbat thinking)
What’ll they think of next? Is this total and absolute stupidity er what? Great way to fight crime huh?
Be much interested to read what you folks think about this. Not that it matters to the powers that be but this really is bizarre. Do they stay up nights thinking this stuff up? Or does it come suddenly like a flas of lightening?
By James Slack
Last updated at 1:53 AM on 18th June 2008Prisoners who go on the run could have the time cut from their sentence, internal Government papers revealed last night.
Convicts will be able to count both the day they absconded and the day they were caught as time spent behind bars.
A criminal could walk out of an open jail in the morning and hand himself in the next day, and both days would count as time served.
The Tories accused the Government of ‘rewarding bad behaviour’.
If an inmate is released in error by a prison governor, he could have all the time spent at large counted as if he had been inside, according to the new Prison Service rules.
This applies if he is unlawfully freed for as much as a quarter of his sentence and in ‘very exceptional circumstances’ even longer.
As prisoners are automatically released after half their sentence, this could mean a criminal could serve as little as one quarter or less of his term.
Prisoners can cite holding down a job or looking after their children as reasons to get a full discount.
The burden of proof is on the governor to show the prisoner knew he was supposed to be in prison.
It also emerged last night that there are 110 escaped or absconded prisoners at large. The average time spent on the run is three years - one convict is still at large after five years.
There are 161 criminals on the run who have not responded after being recalled from early release on End of Custody Licence - a controversial measure to ease overcrowding.
Last year, 510 prisoners absconded from open prisons.
Escapees and absconders who are caught usually do not face any action, as a mountain of paperwork is needed to secure a conviction.
The Tory justice spokesman, Nick Herbert, said: ‘Only this Government could reward prisoners by giving time off for bad behaviour.
‘We know that Ministers are desperate to reduce the prison population, but even by their standards of incompetence this latest policy is completely absurd.’
The revelations came as Justice Secretary Jack Straw admitted there will be no blanket ban on granting bail to murderers - despite a Government promise to review the law.
The Daily Mail revealed yesterday, that Whitehall lawyers have ruled such a move would be a breach of a suspected killer’s ‘human rights’.
The new rules on escaped and absconded prisoners are set out in a long instruction note to governors.
A Prison Service spokesman said: ‘A period of absence will not be treated as part of the sentence served, unless there are exceptional circumstances.’
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Permalink • Tuesday - June 17, 2008
fell off stepladder sues , for £50,000 over ‘inadequate training’ . I couldn’t make this up.
I had no intention of booting as early as I have, but I just couldn’t ignore this. First, I think the old bastard is a bloody liar! Go ahead fart face. Sue me.
This sort of lunacy shouldn’t even be taken up by any lawyer to begin with.
In the past I have ranted on about Health and Safety here in the Nanny State. On occasion, Lyndon has also had a comment or three on the subject.
But reading this morning’s paper earlier then usual, I just thought I was still asleep reading the actual instructions H & S has had printed up.
I wish the telegraph had printed H & S instructions online as well as hard copy. I’ll try and scan it in awhile.
I don’t know about you ppl reading this, but the subject isn’t really a Moonbat. A liar maybe. A jerk? Could be.
No. The Moonbats are the ppl in the legal system that allow this sort of thing to go forward. The real Moonbats are the folks who actually do buy his fairy tale. And they certainly do exist. He sees an opportunity to take in some free money. The system allows for that and caters much to dishonest ppl.
It can only get worse.
Caretaker who fell off stepladder sues for £50,000 over ‘inadequate training’
By John Bingham
Last Updated: 10:20PM BST 16/06/2008A school caretaker who was injured falling off a six-foot stepladder is suing his employer for £50,000 claiming he was not trained how to use it properly
Anthony Gower-Smith says his bosses did not show him how to use the 6ft ladder safely, although he admits using others for at least 30 years without mishap.
Mr Gower-Smith, 73, fell while removing a card display and staples from a wall in the gym at Awbridge Primary School near Romsey, Hampshire, in January 2004.He fractured his skull, broke a cheekbone, split a kidney and spent time in the intensive care unit in nearby Southampton General Hospital, Winchester County Court heard.
Mr Gower-Smith, a former garage proprietor, is suing Hampshire County Council for liability, claiming they did not tell him how to properly use a stepladder.
He is claiming damages of at least £15,000 pounds and up to £50,000 pounds. The council denies negligence.
Mr Gower-Smith told the court he had signed a form to say he had received “ladder training” but said this only consisted of being warned not to stand on the top platform or work at higher than three metres off the ground.
“I thought that was the extent of ladder training,” he told the court. “I didn’t know there were other things regarding ladders.”
Mr Gower-Smith said he started work at the school in October 2002 and had induction training with caretaker support officer Chris Higgins.
He denied that Mrs Higgins had given him other safety advice such as placing the ladder at right angles to the wall being worked on. The court heard that the ladder was placed side on to the wall, potentially making it more unstable, when he fell off.
Mr Gower-Smith said he had filled in a form at work, ticking boxes to indicate he had received training about aspects of the job including ladder safety.
“When you are given something to sign by your superior you just sign it,” he said.
Mr Gower-Smith denied he was standing on the top platform when he fell but the court heard that he told police officers called to the incident that he had been standing on the top and had blamed himself.
“I don’t remember what I said,” he told the court. “I was dazed. But I wasn’t on the top step because I had no need to go to the top step.
“I was in and out of consciousness. I was blaming myself for coming off the ladder.
Not until afterwards did I think about it.”
In a statement of defence, the council said Mr Gower-Smith, of North Baddesley, near Southampton, was negligent, adding “The claimant knew perfectly well how to use a stepladder.”
Mr Recorder Christopher Moger QC asked Mr Gower-Smith if he had a stepladder at home. He said he had.
The judgement is expected this week.
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WHAT IN THE HECK IS WRONG WITH THESE JERKS? oh, right. THEY’RE FREEKIN IDIOTS!
I would be sorely tempted to come back with a gun! OK, I might not if I had time to think about it. But this is so damn fuckin nannyish and stupid.
Are the Brits getting dumber? And for the company to defend this is equally outrageous .
2 fuckin percent booze in a BB sauce? This is maddening. Really it is.
Barbecue sauce madame? Do you have any ID?
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:34 AM on 10th June 2008Controversial: The offending bottle of sauce
Cashiers at a Tesco refused to sell a woman barbecue sauce --because she did not have any ID.
Claire Birchell, 25, was told she could not buy the Jack Daniel’s sauce because it contains 2 per cent alcohol and she could not prove she was old enough to buy it.
Staff even refused to sell the bottle to her brother-in-law, Philip Dover, 27, who was with her at the time and did have ID, because they said he would just give it to her.
Miss Birchell had been hoping to stock up on the sauce while she was visiting her parents in Flitwick, near Bedford, as the shops near her home in Liverpool do not sell it.
So she was astonished to be told she could not buy the condiment because it contains a small amount of whiskey.
Mr Dover said: ‘We just could not believe it. It’s not as if we were going to go and sit down the park drinking it.
‘Claire lives in Liverpool and she can’t buy the sauce up there so she was really
disappointed she couldn’t get it in Flitwick. It just seems crazy over a sauce.’Mr Dover added that he had gone back to the store a few days later and bought a bottle of the sauce without any problem.
It is not the first time Tesco staff have been accused of being overly-strict in policing sales to minors.
Last month the store stopped selling alcohol to parents if they were with their children in case they passed it on to them.
This meant many shoppers who took their children on their weekly shop found they were denied the beer and wine in their trolley.
At the time Tesco defended the move saying they preferred staff to ‘err on the side of caution’.
Supermarkets have become increasingly strict over the selling of alcohol as the Government has imposed tougher rules and penalties.
Any shop caught selling drink to under-18s three times in three months faces a £10,000 fine.
Find this story at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1025362/Barbecue-sauce-madame-Do-ID.html
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