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December 2011
Our Economy
The Euro zone countries wish to to change the constitution by
tightening the controls on their banks. We are told by some undefined survey
that the English disagree with this intention; in that they support our prime
minister's veto of this proposal. When one considers that our government under
Thatcher caused the people with mortgages to pay fifteen percent interest on
their loans, the Brown government allowed the banks to give people one hundred
and twenty percent mortgages to purchase houses which they subsequently could
not afford to repay, one wonders why the English euro- sceptics disagree with
this tightening of banking regulation. Possibly the English want a free for all
in Europe where instead of a level playing field where a we are required to have
a reasonable minimum wage our employers can pay two pounds per hour wages and
undermine the workers in main land Europe with cheap products.
Euro Sceptics
We are told that sixty percent of conservatives (English) would
like to leave the Common Market which takes the majority of our exports. In
their opposition to the minimum wage when it was proposed, and their
representatives useless terms in opposition, to the previous governments
disastrous management of our economy, we would suggest that they move their
homes to Scotland - where people with brains can look after them.
Metric
In 1965
the Government announced it would convert the UK from the Imperial system of
measurement to the metric system.
Why, therefore, forty six years later are our road signs
still portrayed in miles? Our children are constantly failing to take an
interest in mathematics, can it be more important to hold on to the 'mile',
'pint' etc than to enable our children to have an easier measurement system?
Gangs in London
One wonders why the gangs that were controlling government,
controlling the government opposition and controlling the banks during the time
that excessive borrowing was allowed in the UK, have not been prosecuted for
dereliction of duty? They have caused massive damage to people dependent on an
income from bank interest, destabilised the country and initiated a large drop
in our standard of living. In the knowledge that they have not been taken away
and shot, one would have thought that they would have had some compassion for
the one thousand eight hundred people arrested after the riots in London. But no -
excessive punishment and instant punishment possibly leading to inevitable
miscarriages of justice, virtual absence of warnings for a first offence and in
having been given a criminal record unable to get a job.
Can we presume our establishment is getting its own back for the few in their
gangs who got caught with their hands in the till.
Fires and Looting in London
The
burning of cars and property in London is surprising! We've seen people in
Northern Ireland and elsewhere doing it and considered it exciting and quite
normal - for them, - the English, 'using water cannons in London to control
rioters and put any fires out?' How sensible, how un-English.
It is also known that most of our
intelligent unarmed police, patrolling in pair on foot and wishing to collect their pensions, prefer to
lurk around corners calling for reinforcements on their cell phones, rather than confront gangs of trouble-makers. Inevitably
therefore, TV viewers with their big brother street cameras are being dreadfully
traumatised having to watch looters smashing windows
and emptying shops before 'the riot police' turn up.
In our opinion teenagers and adults would have a greater respect
for an honest law abiding armed policeman patrolling their neighbourhood,
rather than the idiot policy we have at present, of sending in the 'SWAT'
and a helicopter, when the report of a gun being carried turns out to be a toy.
Meanwhile, as usual, our mainly conservative
English administrators have requested advice from an American. Having viewed the
teenage gangs from their isolated accommodation - and having not a clue as to
how to control them, they are seeking his expertise. We do have experts in the
UK giving their answers to the problem of their children joining gangs in their
search for excitement; but, these experts, not having been to private school for
'getting your voice heard training' have been telling the government for years
that their teenage children have no local facilities, such as purpose built
youth clubs and decent leaders etc.
Finally, only English politicians would insult the electorate
and our police by calling in foreigners to resolve domestic issues. Possibly
they should be replaced with French administrators who have more pride in
themselves and their experts.
Royal Wealth
2011. The Queen has a 46,000 acre Duchy of Lancaster estate
whose value is approx. £400 million pounds plus a private fortune which is
invested on the stock market. Prince Charles has his Duchy of Cornwall estate
which is contained within twenty three counties; it is valued at approx. £680
million pounds.
Planet Mars
2061.
Latest news: salt water has been discovered on Mars and immediate steps are
being taken to send a desalination plant (invented in 1961) to that planet. Meanwhile thousands of
Africans continue to die after years of drought.
Alternative Vote, First Past
the Post and National Newspapers
The British have voted against the AV system preferring to be
represented by people who have been selected by a minority of those voting.
Unlike the Prime Minister, who, having been selected to his position in the
conservative party using the AV system - voted 'No' to the general electorate
using it? In addition a national newspaper opposed to AV displayed a large 'Vote
No' on its front page; thus enabling this point of view to be displayed in
thousands of newsagents in the country. As we have said before, national newspapers should
be stopped from giving their opinion for one week before a national vote takes place.
The worse case of this is when a newspaper reports, the day before an election,
that e.g. the labour party will have a landslide victory - nobody wants any party to
have a landslide victory. The reporting of this happening could cause the
referred to party to be defeated due to its supporters not turning out.
European Court of Human Rights
Our UK government signed an agreement on European human rights
laws, one of which gave prisoners the right to vote in their countries
elections. Having been reminded by the European
court (obviously the UK had forgotten or not read it), the UK government have decided to
do a U turn and oppose the law. Our ranting English prime minister should
copy the Scottish parliament and obey the law or negotiate an opt out - as usual.
Should he opt out he should stop our English ministers preaching human rights to
people in other countries.
Our foreign secretary in replying to the question as to why
we were being unlawful replied .."the English people are very law
abiding"..???
One Million Units of
Accommodation in the UK are too Dangerous to live in, in 2011.
Landlords in the UK are not required to register themselves as
such on a national register. One million rented houses or flats, and therefore
approx three million English people are living in accommodation which could kill
or seriously affect their health. One asks why these houses are not described as
dangerous weapons being put into the hands of innocent people - and why the
government is not being prosecuted for dereliction of responsibility - one can
only presume that the government respects these criminals as free enterprise
entrepreneurs receiving maximum profit for minimum cost.
Secondly, the builders who built these houses in the absence
of decent inspectors should be disgusted with themselves. Behaviour such as
putting rubbish down wall cavities enable water to penetrate.
Sick
British workers are off work sick for
approx. 35 million days each year. This amounts to approx. one quarter of the
entire European Union's days off sick.
A Written Constitution
A written constitution is a set of rules which cannot be changed
at two minutes notice, and which can be read and
adhered to by a society irrespective of their views on religion or royalty. A
young person might find it acceptable, having read the constitution to swear allegiance to
it, as it does not normally change. Secondly, in agreeing to adhere to a written constitution it is
only natural that individuals in that society should be protected from the
administrators of the rules by first, restricting the ease with which the
constitution can
be changed e.g. a required two thirds or more majority in parliament for a
change to take place. In addition to the written constitution an agreed written
list of rights have to be given to the individuals within the society for
obeying the rules e.g. a right to be judged before punishment, a right to carry
a knife for removing ivy from tree trunks or for whittling, a right to carry a
peashooter or catapult for knocking tin cans off a wall etc, etc, etc... Knowing
that we had these rights at one time - does anyone know which amendment to our
constitution got rid of them.
Egypt
Congratulations to the young people of Egypt and Libya in courageously
demanding a democratic system of government. And congratulations to the Egyptian
army in allowing the young Egyptian peoples right to make their feelings felt,
by removing the anti-democratic police off the streets.
Good TV Programmes in the UK
One can't help asking why young British people don't participate
in the Japanese programme Ninja Warrior? It's nice to see Americans and others looking
beyond their shores and having a go at what is an extreme fitness challenge.
Also seeing Japanese teenagers (described by a TV presenter as kamikaze kids) participate in the 'Takeshi's Castle' competition
with so much joy and courage makes one wonder if our own teenagers are similarly
up to such challenges?
After their earthquake and tsunami we
wish the Japanese condolences for the present and good fortune in the future.
Police
Civilians have been killed by British police unnecessarily. Why? Quite
possibly because they have been trained by the military to 'shoot to kill'. The
same
lunatics who have organised this type of training of our armed police, have
decided to extend this training with heavier military weapons. The excuse for
this, they say, is that they expect external groups of terrorists to enter the
country. The only real terrorists in this country at this time are heavily armed
groups of police descending on quiet communities where a person is
suspected of having a lethal weapon - too dangerous for the unarmed local bobby
to investigate. In addition, police marksmen are to be trained by the SAS to
kill civilians. One would have thought that they were doing that quite well
already. Not once in the past has it been reported that a situation has been
contained by a police marksman wounding a suspect.
Our 'Media' what do they say? Well they've accepted our
internal security and law being policed by MI5 (military intelligence). So, using
the military (cheap) instead of a civilian weapon training establishment is
quite acceptable. The Americans have their FBI (civilian lawyers familiar with
their constitution) for their internal security and their military (who are
trained to kill) are only used as a last resort.
Children
Where can a child of ten commit a crime and be
prosecuted in an adult court? Answer: If he or she lives in a society controlled
by the modern English. In the tenth century the age at which a child was
recognised as an adult was twelve. Congratulations to the
Scottish people who are raising in their country, the adult age to twelve. The UK Children's Commissioner has publicly stated that ten is
too young. The extremists who run the UK government have asked her to apologise for
suggesting such a thing. We would suggest that classifying a child of ten as an
adult is the behaviour of a different type of paedophile.
DNA
The English who control most of the UK (England, Wales &
Northern Ireland) have decided to allow the police to continue collecting the
DNA of innocent people; and retain it for between six and twelve years. Many
innocent people are traumatised by the authorities retaining their DNA. This
behaviour by right wing administrators in this 'socialist' country is
illegal, as ruled by the seventeen to one judgement against this behaviour by
the European Court of Human Rights.
Illegal Drugs. A Threat to our
Democracies?
Prior to the 1950s in the UK, drugs which are now illegal could
be obtained from a doctor and only a small number of people used the service.
One or two doctors decided to increase their customer base by supplying
unregistered users. Since then specific drugs have been make illegal, but, the
excellent distribution system of 'criminals' to continue the supply, has enabled
their use to be made available to users or experimenters even in small villages.
Experimenting with drugs by a small majority of people and their
subsequently becoming 'hooked' will never be stopped. So, why do we spend
billions of pounds/dollars/Euros on imprisoning people, having our soldiers
killed and employing thousands of people to control a trade which has been
generated by making drugs illegal? We can only presume that a pressure group of
people who make a nice living out of the trade, continuously blind our
politicians from the obvious answer - put the illegal traffickers to our
children out of business by selling the drugs to registered addicts at a
continuously cheaper price than the illegal traffickers charge. To enable this;
pay the poppy crop growers in various countries, including Afghanistan a higher
price than the 'criminals' pay and use it within our health services. This
should also put the Taliban who are supported for opposing the destruction of
poppy fields, the main income of Afghanistan, out of business.
2009. It's
reported that international drug police are being so successful that the cost of
drugs sold on our streets has increased by twenty five percent and the quality
of the drugs sold to addicts is even worse than before. What does this achieve?
More drug addict deaths and more thieving to pay for the drugs.
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A Need for ID Cards
Two UK servicemen, back from fighting abroad were refused a
drink in a Wetherspoon's pub because their service ID cards were not on Wetherspoons
list of approved ID cards. One wonders how many other young people have been
embarrassed unnecessarily by the small minded civilians who oppose a national ID card.
There are many people who use our national health hospitals
as hotels. They are clever enough to know sufficient about their fake illnesses
to be admitted. They con our hospitals many times using different names. This
costs the NHS many thousands of pounds per year. With a national ID and an
ability to identify fake copies our NHS could immediately identify these 'sick'
crooks. This is just one example. If you want more - find out yourself.
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Boundary Commissioners
Why do we have a Boundary Commission in the UK? Why, if a person
is born in Norfolk could they end up saying that they were born in Suffolk. As a person born
in Warrington, Lancashire, which is now a town in Cheshire - I am annoyed that a
Commission should re-address my birthplace.
This Commission's life is of course to do with
politics, and our antiquated electoral system. It's continued existence is to do
with our resistance to electing our representative politicians through
proportional representation. Personally, I would have thought that the number of
MPs representing Norfolk in parliament should be based on the number of people
in the county. The rest of us should be represented by elected
village, town and city Mayors passing on our wishes (in conference) to a
Unitary Authority of mayors who would pressurise as necessary the county MPs. Additionally, with approximately seventy
counties in the UK, one would expect that one of these elected representatives
would be judged as suitable for representing the county in the House of Lords (House of
County Representatives) as Senators.
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Sea Warming
We
are constantly being told that our seas are warming up, the ice-caps are melting
and the fish are moving northwards. Why, therefore, do we use inefficient, high
maintenance seaside and countryside polluting wind-turbines to produce carbon
free electricity. Surely, using a heat exchanger to extract heat from the sea or
land,
enables a constant electricity supply to be provided from a steam driven turbine generator; more
efficient and cools the sea. Can it be that our history of engineering
innovation here in the UK has been polluted by fast fix politicians.
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Free enterprise science of shaving - or how to reduce the
number of shaves given by a stainless steel razor blade - to one.
Imagination
A city in Germany was left with a huge building in which the intention
was to build airships. The company went bust and the city in having to do
something with the building turned it's interior into a magnificent warm holiday
resort. Its citizens living in that cold area of Germany could then have a break in
their
Riviera like environment.
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Kids?
- fascinating cartoon games for children of all
ages.
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Charity Commission
The Charity Commission in the UK does not appear to take much interest in
the unpaid voluntary workers who are the basis of its existence. Except for
the media who occasionally run a ‘who is your favourite voluntary worker’ there
does not appear to be any recognition of the many thousands of volunteers - beavering away, unrecognised, in the many charities, affiliated to the
Commission.
One would expect a caring Charity Commission (who make quite a
lot of money selling the rules needed to run a charity), legally; to respect
these selfless workers by a least issuing a medal ‘Bronze’ for one years
service, ‘Silver’ for five years service and ‘Gold’ for ten years service to
these (unpaid volunteers) – with their name on the back. Alternatively, the
Commission should pressurise the government into granting to these unpaid
workers a percentage of tax relief on any income that they have.
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The English part of the UK
A country with a 'democracy' which
is administered by 'leaders' not selected by the electorate. A country which has
no respected statesmen or women. A country where changes to its 'unwritten
constitution' - which should protect our freedoms and rights - can be attempted by a
simple majority in parliament. A country where our weird administrators have had
to have people who apply for English nationality swear allegiance to the Queen?
i.e. nothing specific; unlike mature countries which require an allegiance to
its country's written constitution.
With no clear direction from the
absent leaders, we have the power crazies making decisions. A pensioner who has
carried a small knife in his pocket since he was a boy was prosecuted by the police and
fined £200 for carrying a dangerous weapon? A self-employed man sitting in his
van at the side of the road, was observed by council officials to light a
cigarette - they fined him for smoking in his workplace???. The 'English Health
and Safety' (that Empire Building organisation) have in some way gained access
to some elderly peoples' flat, where they have lived for thirty five years, and
instructed them to remove the pictures from their internal walls – they consider
them as being dangerously unsafe as they could fall on some person's foot!!! A
man travelling to his gardening work was stopped and charged by the police with
having a dangerous weapon - he was carrying in his van a scythe for cutting grass - he was found innocent by a court - eight months later!!!
Mainland Europeans think that we are
a backward race; we're certainly a race with a large number of control freaks
taking advantage of no clear sensible instructions.
Year 2040
English media still spending many hours per day observing and reporting the
fascinating democracy of the Americans (they speak English) selecting their
national leader; whilst continuing to demonise any reforming English politician
whom they suspect might have a brain. Meanwhile, Scotland with its own Prime
Minister has continued to prosper as a full member of the European Union and has
converted its' currency to the Euro.
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A European army
A European army sounds sensible, as it takes some
pressure off the Americans, and makes we Europeans take more responsibility for
our continent. The conservative party here in the UK have opposed this in the
past, the labour party has shown little interest and our media (The Sun
Newspaper) worries that anything to do with the French will reveal how stupid
that newspaper is with its little England policy. The European Union - being
a more responsible assembly of nations, has proposed to the Americans that they
could set up this complementary military force. The Americans think that this is
a good idea; which makes one wonder once more, whether the UK will sit on the
sidelines - or be instructed by America to participate.
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Our
Government
The Queen
Should stand to one side of our democracy and represent the Commonwealth,
thus allowing the UK people to elect a President. This frees up the Prime
Minister to get on with his job of ensuring that the various ministers that he
is responsible for in government are doing their jobs properly, and gives him
more time to analyse what a majority of our people want when advocating changes.
House of Commons
With an elected House of Lords (Senate) The Parliament Act should be got rid of.
House of Lords.
We have some excellent people in our House of
Lords, working very hard at their jobs of scrutinising the legislation being
proposed by the House of Commons - ensuring that it does not conflict
with our human rights or with previously passed laws. These people are
invaluable.
However, the House of Lords is
undemocratic in that the people serving the public there have not been elected
by them. To correct this:
1. The House of Lords should be renamed The Senate.
2. The Senate should consist of a permanent executive embodying two
parts: Constitution Judges and Constitution Officers. Five 'Constitution Judges'
should be elected to it by The Law Society and sufficient 'Constitutional Officers' should be elected
by members of the Senate to carry out their administrative function.
3. The remaining seats in the Senate should be filled by
people sent from our counties as their representative Senator.
4. Minimum age for a senator is thirty, oldest - set by a
doctor determining that the brain is still fully operational.
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Euro-sceptics
We are told by a millionaire supported euro- sceptic pressure group,
that 65% of the people of the UK are in favour of a referendum as to whether or
not to accept the European Constitution. A constitution which needs amending
because of the large number of additional countries who have joined the European
Union. We would suggest that 97% of the people
in the UK haven't got a clue as to what is contained within that constitution or what parts our government has opted out of. If these time waster want a
referendum we would suggest the following topics:
1. Do the people of the UK want a written constitution and a bill of
rights for themselves
2. Do the people of the UK want to join the Euro.
3. Do the people of the UK want proportional representation to elect their local
councillors and national MPs.
4. Do the people of the UK want to keep their post-offices.
5. Do the working class people in the UK want their
pubs (social meeting places) played about with by central government weekend
wine drinkers.
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Working in Paris
Thirty five hour working week with five weeks
annual holidays and eleven bank holidays.
Two bedroom flat costs in rent approx. £700 per month.
Tube and bus pass costs £26 / month. (08)
09 - Fares on public transport in the UK
are approx. 88% more than what the French pay.
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The Euro
It wasn't long after the Second World War that America had a huge recession.
The value of the Dollar dropped like a brick and so to did the European gold
reserves which were valued in dollars. This caused the French to start their
campaign for a European currency whose value would be determined by the industry
and financial expertise of the European people. Now in the UK, where our
short-sighted people and politicians have opted out of joining the Euro, we find
the value of the pound which has been a nice little earner for the 'city' boys,
is becoming of less value when buying goods from our main market - Europe. What
does this mean for UK citizens? - Higher prices for everything that is bought from
the euro zone (our closest market), and a higher cost of holidaying there.
2010 our 'Latin' taught leaders are still having a problem
with the maths of joining the Euro. Meanwhile, twenty seven
nations have joined.
Dyslexia
A teacher in the UK was taught thirty years ago a method of correcting
dyslexia in some children's learning ability, and has been employing that skill
successfully. Thirty years later - our government is still undecided as to the best
method of correcting this problem, from which some children suffer; before
putting teachers trained in dyslexia recognition and correction in all our
schools. Meanwhile, while they dither, a large number of dyslexia suffering
young adults, bored at school, have ended up in our prisons. One presumes that
these ditherers have not checked our prisons, or, are in need of treatment
themselves.
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Smoking again - if you want publicity - find something new
about smoking - how has the old generation survived?
A professor in the UK has proposed to the 'Health England' (who no doubt
advise the government) that people who smoke cigarettes should be forced to pay for a licence to smoke, costing £10 per year
(initially). We would hope that the professor has worked out before this
recommendation, that the stressed people smoking twenty cigarettes per day in
this rip-off society are paying £7 or more for 20
cigarettes, that, times 365
days equals approx. £2,550.00 per year: There are approx. 9,000,000 people in the
UK who enjoy a cigarette, which makes a
grand total of 22 billion pounds taken from their pockets. The government gets
most of this, part to pay the professor her wages, and the rest, sufficient to
pay for the Olympic Games in London or twenty private hospitals for smokers per
year.
Perhaps the professor should engage herself in recommending that marathon
runners have a licence requiring them to pay privately for their subsequent knee
and hip joint replacements if this increasing taxation on people who enjoy a
cigarette is aimed at financing the National Health Service. Meanwhile, there is
more reference to the smoking of cigarettes on our television i.e. by
anti-smoking product manufactures and by the health service than there
ever was when advertising of cigarettes was legal - could this advertising be a
reminder to smokers that they need a cigarette and subsequently maintain the
nice little earner for both the government coffers and
the anti-smoking product manufacturers.
Additionally, this constant reference to smoke related deaths
should take into account the toxic fumes being emitted from vehicles on our city
streets.
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Three Prisoners Have Committed Suicide
within three months in a Victorian type UK prison!
A new Austrian prison building is made of glass and
laid out as an open plan office like structure. This building is surrounded by a
secure park like compound into which prisoners can venture twenty four hours a
day. The Austrians consider that this structure gives a greater feeling of space
and reduces the stress on prisoners safely contained within it. They also
believe that it makes the prisoners more positive about their lives after
prison, more likely not to re-offend and is less likely to cause prisoners to
commit suicide. Our government?? Well, it is intent on building three new large
prisons, each with over two thousand inmates. We wonder whether these will be
surrounded by machine gun armed watch towers, and in the American way, be run by
two administrations, the warders rules and the prisoners rules, which inevitably exist
within such large prisons. Internationally, the building of large prisons is
considered an expensive way of punishing criminals; in that the released
offenders invariably return to their neighbourhoods without any training or
skills to enable them to successfully integrate - they therefore re-offend. Only
impoverished unimaginative brains would support the building of this type of
prison.
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Internet
A survey in Jan 08 of UK internet download speeds found, that the
average was between 1.72Mb and 6.07Mb. One UK cable company advertises a
brilliant
download speed of 10Mb - the French download speed is 44Mb the Japanese is 90Mb.
One can only presume that our British download speed is meant to match our
queuing at petrol pumps, queuing at post offices, queuing at our hospitals and standing on overcrowded trains.
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Metric System (Sept 07)
Under pressure from the UK government, the European Union
has allowed us to retain our archaic measurement system of 'chains', 'inches',
'miles' etc. One wonders why we have been teaching the metric system to our children -
who have calculators based on it - when its practical
application is being confused with an inferior alternative. One wonders what prat in our government has
been talking to the European Union - what representative of the idiot branch of
this society has been allowed to give his or her opinion: no doubt, as usual,
quoting the general public of the UK as supporting their lunacy.
Could it be that our mathematically ignorant, 'arts' educated executives are
intent on saving the cost of changing our road signs?
How does the media treat this news? Channel 5 sends a
reporter (who says he has problems with the metric system - god help us), to interview a
person who has constantly opposed the changing of his weighing scales to metric.
No doubt listening to his views we could bring back public hanging and the horse
and cart.
Finally, on a different media
channel, a more enlightened market
stall holder remarked 'having two prices and two measurements on goods is only
confusing'.
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British Soldiers 07
If an British family was responsible for how their son or daughter
should be honoured, when returning dead from an overseas battle zone - to which
the British government and therefore the British people had sent them. They would
ensure that great respect was displayed by the 'responsible society' during their son
or any other families son
or daughter's last journey, over the distance travelled by the hearse. No public respect is organised by our
elected government representatives, and
therefore, no respect is
given by the provision of an escort by some of the Chief Constables of the different counties through which
the hearse passes. So, who are these British representatives who will put
on a fine display of police presence when the Queen dies, or even visits; but
provide no public expression of thanks, compassion, or respect for our young
(died for his/her country) British soldier? One can only presume that they, like so
many administrators within our society these days are more interested in their own comfort or
promotion, rather than taking the lead in displaying the decent side of our
society - reflected in the massive unpaid voluntary sector which
subsidies it.
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Some pubs in the UK are locking their doors at 11pm and
having a private drink and smoking session for patrons.
The local councils nicotine police are very interested in this undemocratic behaviour - Heil Hitler
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NHS - the national 'black hole'.
Our local newspaper reports that a surgeon (not English) responsible for
hip operations etc, in our National Health Service, has been able to cut his
waiting list to zero by over-lapping operations to improve his efficiency.
Despite being lauded by Tony Blair and called a local hero, his colleagues have
decided not to adopt his system because financially it is not to their
benefit. Apparently, the longer their waiting lists, the more private patients
they are allowed to treat. The surgeon - an Italian - has decided to leave the National
Health Service and take an appointment as chief surgeon in a Swiss
hospital. He stated that "If you want to get rid of waiting lists you must
require surgeons to take performance related pay". No doubt the hospital in
Switzerland will be very efficient. and our (nationalised) system will continue
in its friendly (nice little earner) approach to doctors and surgeons.
2011. The government has decided to let the doctors run the NHS?
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ID Cards
Twenty four out of twenty seven
countries in the European Union have ID cards;
enabling those governments and commercial retailers e.g. alcohol and
cigarette suppliers,
to identify their adults from their children
The UK so far, has given their cows ID cards as infected beef was not acceptable
within the European Union.
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Education
Some employers state, that many of the NVQs (National Vocation
Qualification) our sixteen year old
school leavers have worked so hard for, are not worth the paper that they are
written on. They want the young people to be able to write clearly and be
competent at mathematics and reading. With these properly taught basic skills,
the employers say that they will take over teaching of the youngsters in how to
do the work that the young people have applied for.
The governments answer - "We'll
increase the school leaving age to eighteen"! What can you say about successive
governments interfering in education when fifty years ago the young people
leaving school at age fourteen had these basic abilities; which were of a
sufficient standard for employers to take on most youngsters.
Is it surprising that the UK education system isn't referred
to in language books. Why? - because they would be out of date before they were written.
Possibly a television 'soap' series, going on for generations could keep us up
to date.
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Wind-farms
A nice little (subsidised by the tax
payers) earner for those polluting our countryside,
who intend to live abroad.
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A Confused Person
Giles Chichester MEP,
one of our British representatives in the European parliament has succeeded in
delaying indefinitely our complete conversion to the metric system; which should
have taken place in 2009. He wants the English to retain the Imperial
System of measurement; proved in the past to be completely useless. However, one
can understand this UK representative wishing to confuse our engineers - one of
his associates in our parliament recommended the 'Hand' as the basic unit of
measurement; having found it satisfactory for his horses. This may have been a
joke, but it shows how seriously our bureaucrats take, in providing a practical
side to the learning of the metric system (e.g. change of road signs to
kilometres), when the theory of the metric system is being taught to the children in our schools.
Additionally, having personally joined the RAF in the
sixties, and having to learn the basics of Radar using both the Metric and Imperial
System of measurement for examinations, the absence of metric practice and the playing around with (times
twelve), or 1760 yards in a mile Imperial System, only caused confusion and delay which was
completely unnecessary. We should have one measurement system, and the Metric
System has been internationally, judged the best.
Finally, one of Giles Chichester's arguments was that we, the English, shall
be selling goods to America. If he looked at international agreements he would
find, that America is also changing to the metric system of measurement. Perhaps
he wants the English to be as confused as the Americans, when they in error used
the Imperial system instead of the Metric system of measurement, to screw up one
of their space programmes.
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Would the English people prefer a
President and vice-president elected by a majority of the people, or, members of our Royal Family
to represent us in the world?
Without a referendum we will never know. But one mother interviewed during the
last general election said
"I would like my child to have an opportunity to be our President".
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Human Rights
UK government lawyers have either not had time or are not particularly
interested in the European Convention on
Human
Rights. Six 'control orders' issued by the Secretary of State intended to put
suspects under house arrest for 18 hours per day, have been judged by Justice
Jeremy Sullivan as illegal; in that our Secretary of State had no power to make
the orders and that they must therefore be quashed. To get as close as possible
to breaking the European law on human rights our governments is reducing the
incarceration period to 14 hours and appealing for this to be accepted.
'Incarceration' or imprisonment
should only be a penalty for people who have been charged with an offence,
irrespective of what our newspapers or other neurotics have to say.
Nov 2007. Our right wing government is attempting to increase
the holding of suspects in prison or 'incarceration' - without charge - from 28
to 42 days.
June 2008. They have succeeded -
by a small majority of MPs - nine of them from Ireland. We expect the House of
Lords consisting of many mature people who have served in the last war for our
freedoms, to throw out this proposed legislation.
Feb 2009. Our government is told by the European Court of
Human Rights to pay damages to the people who have been illegally incarcerated
without trial.
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2008. Latest on a Written Constitution and
a Bill of Rights
Our Prime Minister is considering the introduction
of a Written constitution and a Bill of Responsibilities - in twenty five years
time (we are told by Jack Straw speaking in America). We notice that he says Responsibilities not
Rights????? We would suggest that they just copy either the American or French
constitutions. Writing our own is possibly too complicated for our privately educated politicians.
Twenty five years! By then they'll have spy cameras inside all our toilets - today
we have one spy camera for every fourteen people in the UK.- nearly a
quarter of a million cameras. This expenditure is pretty sick when over 20,000
of our children are living here in poverty.
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Cigarette smoking kills? - Exclaimed
an eighty year old cigarette smoking grandmother, peering at the label
on her cigarette packet - "How long have I got?"
It's reported that several members of ASH (the no smoking extremists) have died
of boredom one week after everybody decided to stop smoking.
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Home Office
Our Home Secretary is advocating that 18 year olds should
sign a pledge of allegiance to The Queen?
We ask the question, 'What is The Queen, is she the custodian of the rights
and responsibilities under which our 18 years old will be required to live
up to, and if she is, what are these rights and responsibilities?
Secondly, as the Home Office has a bad habit of breaking the 'Human Rights Laws'
we would suggest that these rights and
responsibilities be written down so that we and they know what they are.
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Sixty percent of British parents feel too embarrassed to talk
about sex to their young children.
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English Administration
‘When you take over responsibility for a system, change
everything; change the name of departments, change the telephone numbers, change
colours, change everything that can be changed. In this way, you will be the
only one who knows how the system works and everyone else will have to relearn:
making the workforces’ experience redundant and your own position enhanced’.
This lazy method of taking control is seen in
English history with privatization of our railways; were no advice was sort from
British Rail, who had successfully run the national railways (with almost zero
investment) for over a century and our first past the post electoral system
results in - ‘all change’.
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Britain has the second longest working week in the EU --
after Latvia --
England and Wales has the highest imprisonment rate
amongst western European states
and re-offending is still increasing
The UK has more people abusing drugs than any other
country in the EU.
Televisions presentation of our MPs in parliament during
debates, where they have to stand up
to catch the Speaker's (Chairman's) eye in order to put their question,
and then sit down if they don't,
high-lights how archaic our parliamentary system is, as the various MPs bounce up and down.
No
doubt this is how they did it in their great-grand parents private school debates - a couple of
hundred years ago.
It's refreshing to see the more
mature Scottish MPs in their parliament using an electronic button
to indicate to their chairman that they have a question to ask.
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The United States of America - a very rich association.
The United States of Europe - ??????????????????? give us three hundred
years if the UK is involved.
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Windy?
At the height of the gale, the harbourmaster radioed a coastguard on the
spot and asked him to estimate the wind speed. He replied that he didn't
have a gauge. However, if it was of any help, the wind had just blown his
Land Rover off the cliff. (Aberdeen Evening Express)
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Airports
The Government has constantly fought the people living near
Stansted airport. The original choice of location for the airport was
either Maplin Sands on the coast or Stansted. A person concerned with our peoples'
environment would have chosen Maplin Sands (where at least two runways
would have had aircraft taking off or landing over the sea). It was
obvious to thinking people that Stansted (an inland airport) if selected would
have to become bigger
and bigger.
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You have to respect our aristocracy,
they still own more land than the rest of the UK's people put together.
Survival
Never say "I am in love with you" to a person until you make that
person a friend with whom you can discuss
your most intimate secrets, and feel confident that they are telling you
theirs. Once you have achieved this, you must still maintain your own
interests and a percentage of independence to fall back on, just in case
you lose your 'love' (by 'fair means or foul!'). Subsequently, you have to
be aware that every new day makes your partner different; therefore, you
have to continually update your knowledge of him or her to stay in contact
and still be able to re-state 'I love you'.
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A Whiff of Gas.
Commenting on a complaint from a Mr Arthur Purdey about a large gas bill,
a spokesman for North West Gas said, "We agree it was rather high for the
time of year. It's possible Mr Purdey has been charged for the gas used up
during the explosion that destroyed his house." (The Daily Telegraph)
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Freedoms?
- Having recently spent money on the telephone booking a quantity of Euros for a holiday in my European
continent, and subsequently having had to shop around the banks to obtain the
best exchange rate for the Euros which I had brought home, I wonder if this
exercise is considered by the government, or banks, as more lucrative for them
in removing money from my pocket than the alternative of joining the Euro.
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Efficiency?
150 million clocks have to be changed in the UK twice every year. If it
takes 30 seconds per clock, The English people at 8 hrs / working day will use
approximately 312,500 working days to do this! The Scottish people in opposing
any alternative, prefer to inconvenience the English by voting against any
change; rather than send their children to school an hour later during the
winter. 2011 April the government or some oddballs (we are not sure) is thinking of changing our time to central
European and adding an additional hour in the summer - they do a lot of
thinking. 2011 still April, they've done their thinking - no change.
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What's the difference between a girlfriend and a wife? About 45 lbs.
Fairness?
- A pensioner observes, that, having driven his car for only 500 hundred
miles this year he's paying road tax at approximately 45p per mile as compared
with a motorist driving 10,000 miles per year wearing out our roads is paying
only1.8p per mile. He believe that the road tax should be included in the price
of petrol - 2011?
factory, together with their equipment. Unfortunately for the English
employers, what would be allowed in England was not acceptable in France
were the employees have more rights than the employers. In the absence of
the employers agreeing to terminate their workers employment as required by
French law, the French government seized the employers assets, and from
these paid the employees any wages they were owed, seventy percent of their
pay for six months to help them in finding a new job, and one months
termination pay - must be nice to have a government that is on your side,
instead of on the side of management failures.
Whilst watching the Athletics World Championships on television it was a
bit different to see the Marathon runners being escorted through Paris by
police on roller-blades.
Obviously a police force whose senior officers still have imagination.