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 18/08/2008

Over 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.”

http://tinyurl.com/66dytv

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.

http://tinyurl.com/66bu9o

Posted by Drew458     on 08/18/2008 at 12:07 PM   
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