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Nanny Bans Parents - Further Update

Further emails were exchanged today:

"Thanks XXXX

I have posted it on the site.

However, I would note that "Rebekah Makinson, mum-of-three, added: We have used Harwoods since I was a child and my mother stayed with me. "

http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/4705034.Parents_banned_from_council_play_areas/

This doesn't tie in with the council explanation that "a handful of parents have been staying on, not just dropping their children off. Staff that run the facility felt they were getting in the way and diverting their attention away from focusing entirely on the children in their care " which implies that the rule change was in response to recent changes in parent behaviour.

Given that parents have been staying on for years, why change the rules now?

Creating a climate of fear is not the way to bring up children.

Kind regards

Ken Frost

Hello again

I think the point to make is that nearly all the parents that use the Harwoods site (now and in years gone by) drop their children off and don't stay, and all the parents at the other site, Harebreaks, drop their children off.

This small percentage of parents staying on at Harwoods has been acceptable over the years and not caused problems, but recently there have been issues that have affected our staff being able to run these to the best of their abilities - and the decision was taken to bring the two sites in line, but please rest assured this isn't something we've done lightly.

Again, I can't stress enough - knowing Dorothy as I do, she is 100% not somebody that buys into the 'every adult is a potential paedophile' view.

Best,
XXX
Political assistant to the elected mayor
Watford Borough Council"

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Nanny Bans Parents

All adult are paedophiles, unless they can prove otherwise and are supervised, that appears to be the message from Nanny.

Parents in Watford have discovered this to their cost recently as the council, under the auspices of Mayor Dorothy Thornhill, have banned them from watching their own children at two council play areas (Harwoods and Harebreaks recreation grounds).

Nanny will place "vetted" council staff ("play rangers") in charge. The mayor says that this enforces government policy.

"Enforced government policy"!

That says it all, doesn't it?

Councils are now the "enforcers" of the state, they no longer act in the interest of the people who elect them.

Mayor Thornhill is quoted in the Watford Observer:

"Sadly, in today's climate, you can't have adults walking around unchecked in a children's playground."

Here's why she is clueless, and is talking absolute bollocks:

1 If you can't trust the parents (from a normal non feral family), who exactly are you meant to trust?

2 Parents have been supervising their own children for the last 150,000 years or so, without the need for state interference. Why now do we need it?

3 Is the Mayor familiar with the Salem Witch Trials? Does she not see the parallels between that and today's paranoia whipped up by a moronic mainstream media, compliant politicians and feeble minded councils?

4 Who gave this council the right to ban parents from overseeing their own children?

5 By stating that all adults (including parents) are potential paedophiles the state is placing a very large barrier between adults and children, making the children afraid of all adults. What kind of a world is being created here, where children are afraid of all adults?

6 Why should people trust the state to be in any shape or form involved in the upbringing of their children?

7 Why is the woman allowed out in public without adult supervision?

8 There is no "official" government policy that states parents may not supervise their own children. Please could Mayor Thornhill state which piece of legislation she is referring to?

What kind of a world have we created for children where they must now fear every adult they meet?

Since the media got wind of the story, the council have attempted to claim that there is no ban:

"The press have inaccurately reported what Harwoods and Harebreaks are; they are not open public facilities. They never have been. They are closed, fully supervised facilities.

They are no different to other fully supervised facilities, like schools, playgroups or nurseries - where adults are not allowed to stay.

Parents and carers are, of course, welcome to bring their children safely into the sites and settle them in."

Read the above carefully, and you will see that there is a ban; all the council have done is to "recategorise" the area as a "closed facility".

Not only do they ban parents, but when confronted the squirm and lie!

Why, if these really were closed facilities, were parents allowed in before?

Lies from start to finish!

Mayor Thornhill, and her "witch burning" council lackeys, need to removed from their offices without delay.

Mayor Thornhill claims to be a Liberal Democrat, snort!

Here is her email address themayor@watford.gov.uk

UPDATE

Just arrived in my email box from Watford:

"Dear Ken

The Mayor is not in the office today and I'm sure will email you herself, but I wanted to reassure you that she's not taken leave of her senses, and contrary to reports in the media, Watford Borough Council has not banned parents from public parks and playgrounds in the town!

This is about our adventure playgrounds, which are closed-off, fenced-in, fully supervised facilities for the over 5s. Parents drop off their kids and leave them in our care - no different to playgroups or schools where you wouldn't expect parents stay on. We have a responsibility to those parents to safeguard their children, and provide the best possible environment for them.

What has happened is that at Harwoods adventure playground a handful of parents have been staying on, not just dropping their children off. Staff that run the facility felt they were getting in the way and diverting their attention away from focusing entirely on the children in their care - who are enjoying more adventurous risky play, not just the usual slides and swings. They’ve now reluctantly decided its best to exclude these parents, and have brought the site in line with the other site Harebreaks, where parents don't stay on and they have no problems.

Quotes attributed to Dorothy have been taken out of context – she's not saying adults shouldn’t be allowed on playgrounds - that would go against everything she believes in – only on these specialised play facilities! And parents are allowed to come in and settle their children in, it's just not ideal that they hang around (and most don't), unless of course they become proper volunteers. We have 40 open public playgrounds elsewhere in the Borough where adults can stay and play with their children.

She's absolutely not a nanny state supporter!

Best wishes,

XXXXX
Political assistant to the elected mayor
Watford Borough Council"


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Nanny's Al Capone Powers

We have known for quite some time that this country is being run by a bunch of gangsters, viz:

- Extortion via excessive tax rises and council fines

- Protection rackets via demands for licences and insurance fees for any activity whatsoever

- Bullying via the Iraq invasion, holding people without trial etc

However, in a twist of irony Nanny is now using a law designed to deal with "Al Capone" type "master" criminals against the ordinary person in the street; ie she is designating us all as potential "Al Capones".

The powers that police currently have to deprive crime barons of luxury lifestyles are being extended to councils, quangos and agencies to use against us.

These powers include the right to search homes, seize cash, freeze bank accounts and confiscate property.

Nanny is giving the following groups "carte blanche" (can I use French here?) to use these powers whenever they see fit; town hall officials and civilian investigators employed by organisations such as Royal Mail, the Rural Payments Agency and Transport for London.

Nanny's little chum Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, is sneaking these powers in next week via a Statutory Instrument (this means parliament doesn't have to debate it).

Now why would a local council need such powers?

Well my loyal readers, isn't it obvious?

To collect backdated council tax, to tackle fare dodgers and other minor criminals.

At this point you might say, "So what? They are criminals, they deserve it!"

OK, but I would make a number of observations:

- The powers of the state should be in proportion to the crime.

- Punishment should be in proportion to the crime.

- Do you really trust the local councils not to misuse these powers? Remember what they did with RIPA.

- Do you really think that they state should have such powers, that can be used willy nilly against all and sundry? The state cannot be trusted.

- Imagine a time, not long hence, when ZaNuLabour increases council tax to unprecedented proportions. Under the current system there would be a wave of non payments, and people would use due process (as councils took them to court etc) to humiliate the government. Under these new powers the state would simply lock individuals down financially", at the stroke of a pen. How would you function without any bank account? This would kill any council tax protest stone dead within a matter of days.

The chairman of the Police Federation, Paul McKeever, is well pissed off with this; noting that the decision to hand over "intrusive powers" to people who were not police was made without consultation or debate.

He is quoted in The Times:

"The Proceeds of Crime Act is a very powerful tool in the hands of police and police-related agencies and it shouldn't be treated lightly.

There is a behind the scenes creep of powers occurring here and I think the public will be very surprised.

They would want such very intrusive powers to be kept in the hands of warranted officers and other law enforcement bodies which are vetted to a very high standard rather than given to local councils."

The Home Orifice (remember it has been classified as "not fit for purpose") has a plan to "embed" financial seizure in the criminal justice system. Labour have set a target to recover £250M in criminal assets by 2010, rising to £1BN per year soon after.

Ah Hah!

Ker Farking Ching!

We are all designated as prostrate milch cows, to be milked dry via taxes and fines in order to feed the ever growing appetite of the state.

Oh, and by the way, Nanny intends to create a whole new body of financial investigators who will be accredited, trained and monitored by yet another quango, the National Policing Improvement Agency.

More money here from course fees!

More interfering busybodies in uniforms to crush the individual!

Do you not see what ZaNuLabour (wasn't it the Telegraph that claimed that I had lost all sense of proportion the other day by calling them that?) is doing here?

They are creating a police state, that even the police don't want!

A Home Orifice memo states:

"Investigation bodies will receive a share of money recovered as additional funding to incentivise further work in recovering the proceeds of crime."

Thereby neatly incentivising these bodies to create false charges, in order to earn some more money.

As we all know the councils etc already have powers to reclaim debt etc, they most certainly do not need these extra powers.

They most certainly cannot be trusted with them!

The memo also say that the councils will be "less reliant on more traditional law enforcement agencies, notably the police".

Another police force has been created, under the direct control of the state.

THAT IS WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Power corrupts!

The state, under ZaNuLabour, has become the enemy of the people.

Here is Johnson's email Alan Johnson.

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Nanny 9-5

Rules and regulations, mixed with an edifying dose of inflexibility, are Nanny's tools of trade, as Rita Longbottom discovered to her cost recently.

Mrs Longbottom, a dementia sufferer in her 80's, lived in sheltered housing scheme in Anchor Court Southport.

One afternoon she wanted to come back into the complex, having forgotten her key. However, owing to EU working laws, the live in warden was not allowed to be contacted by the managers (Anchor) of the complex (in order to open the door) because the law states that the warden must have an 11 hour break between shifts.

The result being that Mrs Longbottom had to wait outside for 6 hours (Anchor claim she "only" waited for 2 hours) whilst a locksmith was summoned by Anchor from several miles away.

Residents at the complex pay £28K for the warden to live on site.

There are a number of points that arise here:

1 It is fair enough that the warden has time off, otherwise people would end up taking advantage with endless petty requests. However, in this particular case, some commonsense should have been shown.

2 Errm...given that the neighbours were the ones who contacted Anchor, to let Mrs Rowbottom in, why didn't anyone of them let her sit in one of their houses whilst waiting for the locksmith?

Whatever happened to commonsense?

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The Dangers of Scouting

I see that Nanny is trying to fiddle with boy scouts again.

This time her fiddling concerns the annual jamboree of around 10,000 scouts from around the world, a highlight of the scout calendar.

The event, despite being held for the last 90 years, is likely to suffer from Nanny's new laws regarding the interaction of adults with children.

Nanny now requires that adults who seek to interact with children register their details for background checks etc.

All very well, maybe, except for a small problem wrt the annual jamboree; there are 2,000 volunteers who help out at this event.

At £64 per head this amounts to a nice £128K potential money earner for Nanny. Doubtless she is licking her thin, sallow, lifeless, blood drained lips at the prospect!

However, the Scout Association is less than happy with this and is considering not bothering with the event. They are trying to see if Nanny will be reasonable and are writing to Ed Balls, the Children's Secretary, asking him to consider more flexibility for volunteer groups.

Pardon me whilst I choke on my early morning gin!

Nanny, being flexible!

No chance, lack of flexibility is her raison d'etre.

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The Dangers of Poles

As we all know, Nanny's councils have something of a bee in their collective bonnets over "health and safety".

Rob Grice, a barber shop owner from Wigan, found this to his cost recently when his local council decreed that his barber's shop pole (a freestanding red and white erection...can I say erection?) presented a clear and present danger to the health and safety of pedestrians.

The council happily seized it!

Isn't that theft?

The odd thing is that this pole has been there for 19 years.

Why oh why would the council seize it now?

Hmmmm...

Shall we ask the council then my loyal readers?

Yes, let's ask the council!

Here's what they say:

"We work closely with access groups and it is our duty to look after the interests of people in wheelchairs and with white sticks.

Objects like these are not as stable as fixed street signs and we are being encouraged by Government to be much more proactive over things like this.

The sign was noticed by inspectors. The shop is in a narrow street. It was an accident waiting to happen. The proprietor was issued with a warning but he failed to respond so we were obliged to take it off him.

He is entitled to have it back if he pays the council £100."

Oh hoh!
Ah hah!
Teh heh!

The very last sentence contains the real reason for them lifting the sign...

Ker Farking Ching!

Here's how to contact the council: Wigan.

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Quote of The Year

My compliments to Bill Dixon, 74, a British Legion volunteer poppy seller who has summed up in one sentence the problem wrt health and safety advice:

"This is the thing about health and safety, this government seems to think we have all been educated under the standards that you see in schools today, but some of us were actually taught common sense."

Exactly!

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Torygraph

The Torygraph claims that I have lost all sense of proportion:

"In its broader sense it can be used to describe any situation where a poster loses all sense of proportion, for example describing New Labour as 'Zanu-Labour' after Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwean political party Zanu-PF."

Could it be that the Torygraph hasn't bothered to read much of this site and hasn't managed to work out that I write, sometimes, with my tongue in cheek.

What say you my loyal readers?

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A Nation of Brain Dead Numpties

As I have often stated on this site, living in the Nanny state (where everything is spoon fed to you, people are obliged to follow petty rules and procedures and we are discouraged from thinking for themselves) rots the brain.

Hey ho...and here we have proof, if it were ever needed, that the Nanny state really does rot the brain.

Jaz Bhogal, 15, found this to his cost the other day when he went to his local 99p store at Wisbech Cambridgeshire to buy some wine gums.

Can you guess what happened next loyal readers?

Yes, that's right, the shop assistant refused to sell them to him because Jaz was under 18.

Factoid: wine gums do not contain alcohol.

A cursory glance at the list of ingredients of said packet could have verified that, not to mention the fact that most people with half a brain know that.

However, living in the Nanny state rots the brain and the fact that the word "wine" was in the label ensured that an automatic "you're underage" mindset kicked in.

Not surprisingly the store owners have realised that they look like numpties and have apologised. Seemingly there was a "glitch" in the electronic till which flagged the product as "booze".

So that's alright then?

No it's not, because commonsense should have told the shop assistant that the till was wrong!

As noted, we have become a nation of brain dead numpties thanks to Nanny.

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Whistle While You Work!

Dear oh dear, what a penny pinching bunch of old miseries the Performing Right Society are!

Sandra Burt, who works at the A & T Food Store in Clackmannan, found this to her cost recently when the music police banned her from singing behind the counter of the shop.

For why?

Cos she didn't have a licence to "perform".

A "mere" £80 to you guv!

Ker-Farking-Ching!

Why was she singing?

Cos the PRS threatened the shop owner with a fine if he didn't buy a licence for playing his radio to his customers, so he turned it off.

Gareth Kelly, music sales advisor for PRS, said:

"Using any copyright material in your store, without paying for it, is illegal.

It doesn't matter whether you're singing a Robbie Williams track, or listening to a Robbie Williams track, you still have to pay for it.

She could be fined for not having a live performance licence, and if the fine isn't paid, then she could potentially be taken to court."

The PRS said that Mrs Burt could be judged to be giving daily performances, which would require individual daily licences, taking the annual cost up to "four figures".

Good grief, what sad miserable country we have become!

Has no one in PRS ever heard the word "commonsense"?

Finally, after some hoo hah in the media, the PRS has now learned the word "commonsense" and has backed down and sent her some flowers with a grovelling note of apology.

"We're very sorry we made a big mistake.

We hear you have a lovely singing voice and we wish you good luck."

All very well, but it should never have tried it on in the first place.

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Prats of The Week - CPS

Well done the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for swathing themselves in glory and winning "Prats of The Week"!

For reasons best known to themselves they chose to prosecute Renate Bowling, a 71 year old disabled widow from Lancashire, for poking a 17 year old male in the chest.

Mrs Bowling poked and shouted at the male because he had been throwing stones at her windows.

The CPS were peeved because she refused to stop prodding him when an officer arrived.

Mrs Bowling noted:

"I feel like the victim in all of this - I have been called a German whore in the street, and my windows are always getting pelted with stones."

Mrs Bowling left Germany in 1945 and settled in the UK; she has three children who served in the Army, and suffers from osteoporosis, curvature of the spine and diabetes.

Clearly she is a major threat to the safety of any 17 year old male!

The CPS, well deserving "Prats of the Week".

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The Booze Police

Did you know my loyal readers that this is "alcohol awareness week"?

No, I didn't know that either, until I by chance came across this wee note (see below) in the Times yesterday.

Speaking personally I don't need any of Nanny's minions to remind me about alcohol, but it is very kind of them to do so!

Regarding the note written by the venerable doctors, I would make a few of observations:

1 They are seriously out of touch, regarding dictating prices that would lead to a £1.50 pint; when was a pint last £1.50?

2 Normal people do not drink gallons of ultra cheap cider. To punish the normal population for the actions of a desperate, sad minority is simply not right.

3 Physician heal thyself: "Although the physical health of doctors compares favourably with that of the general population, they have an increased prevalence of alcohol and drug problems and a higher suicide rate.

Data from the U.S.A. indicate that approximately 10% of physicians become dependent on psychoactive drugs or alcohol at some time during their careers. Dynamic influences in their upbringing, pressure of work and ready access to drugs may all predispose to drug or alcohol misuse."

Source Alcohol and drug use and related problems in the medical profession

I also noted in another media organ that there is a "growing campaign for minimum alcohol prices"...errrmmm...no there isn't! This is merely a media invention to give the media something to write about.

Anyhoo, in order to celebrate "alcohol awareness week" I will be consuming a veritable smorgasbord of alcohol, I recommend that you do the same (feel free to buy some using the excellent links on this site).

Sherry enemas all round!

Here is the letter from the doctors, as per The Times:

"Sir,

As Directors of Public Health in the North West, we believe that the time has come for effective action to stop the irresponsible sale of cut-price alcohol by the off-trade. We welcome the Government's recent proposals to introduce a mandatory code for alcohol retailers and believe that this should be implemented at the earliest opportunity to address increased alcohol consumption and health harm in the UK. However, we also urge the Government to take further decisive action by bringing forward legislation to introduce a minimum price per unit for alcohol of 50p per unit.

None of us comes to this policy solution easily. However, despite considerable investment in the NHS and public health messages, a new Licensing Act and efforts by the industry itself, HMRC figures show that the overall consumption of alcohol continues to rise, as measured by volume of alcohol sold. Hospital admissions due to alcohol harm have risen by 64 per cent in the North West in the past five years. Apart from the implications for public health of this situation, we believe that the cost to the NHS in the North West of £400 million per year is simply unsustainable.

Of course, personal responsibility must continue to be part of our collective focus in tackling alcohol consumption, but it is naive for any of us to think it can be the sole focus. Alcohol is sufficiently price elastic for the aggressive price-cutting we have seen in recent years to affect individual consumption. It follows, as Sheffield University has shown, that raising the price of the cheapest alcohol sold would affect overall consumption and would target effectively the consumption of those that drink above moderate levels.

We know that the Government has argued that it does not wish to penalise moderate drinkers. Neither do we. A unit price of 50p means £1.50 for a pint in the pub or £4.50 for a bottle of wine in the supermarket. Is this really too much to pay to save 3,393 lives per year, to cut crimes by 45,800 and save the country £1 billion every year in alcohol-related costs?

We urge the Government to act quickly and decisively. The political leadership that was shown on smoking in public places needs to be shown on alcohol too. As with smoking, the politicians that take a lead in combating alcohol harm may find that they command the public’s respect and support as a result.

Dr Arif Rajpura
Blackpool PCT

Dr Diana Forrest
Knowsley PCT

Professor John Ashton
Cumbria PCT

Dr Julie Higgins
Salford PCT

Dr Abdul Razzaq
Trafford PCT

Fiona Johnstone
Halton and St Helens PCT

Dr Frank Atherton
North Lancashire PCT

Dr Stephen Watkins
Stockport PCT

Alan Higgins
Oldham PCT

Dr Rita Robertson
Warrington PCT

Janet Atherton
Sefton PCT

Jan Hutchison
Bolton PCT

Melanie Sirotkin
Tameside and Glossop PCT

Dr Kate Ardern
Ashton, Leigh and Wigan PCT

Dr Sheila Will
Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale PCT

Dr Peter Elton
Bury PCT

Dr Ellis Friedman
East Lancashire PCT

Maggi Morris
Central Lancashire PCT

Dr Heather Grimbaldeston
Central and Eastern Cheshire PCT"

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Prats of The Week - Water Ban II

Well, well, well, look what I got in my mailbox this morning from Bury Council!

Looks like the adverse publicity forced a change of heart.

"Dear Mr Frost

Thank you for your email regarding this issue. I can confirm that we have had problems at some events with people trying to bring in alcohol in bottles and this is in breach of our licence. However, this instance appears to have been an over reaction on our part for which we apologise, and we will review our policy on providing free water with a more customer friendly emphasis.

I hope this statement clarifies the position

Kind Regards


Communications Team
Bury Council. "

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Nanny Bans Cake

Now I am not too old to remember that when I was a young lad when it was my birthday, my mum would bake a cake and my friends would come over, cause mayhem and share the cake.

Pretty normal stuff right?

Not in Nanny's world!

Olivia Morris, nine years old, wanted to share her granny's homemade chocolate birthday cake with her friends at Rockingham Infant and Junior School in Rotherham.

Not so fast Olivia!

The cake, an unctuous creation of chocolate decorated with Maltesers and Jellytots, was deemed "ungood" by the miserable followers of Nanny at her school.

The school banned her from sharing it with her friends, because it did not comply with healthy eating rules.

By all means promote healthy eating. However, part of the healthy eating concept should allow for the occasional treat. Unless you teach children self discipline, wrt having treats on occasions without "binging", they will never learn self control.

Needless to say this absurdly hard line policy will only put the children off "healthy" eating, and make the teachers look like miserable old fools.

The staff at the school should be thankful that this was a harmless birthday indulgence. Some less well brought up kids at that age would have been cracking open a can of cider and sniffing some glue in celebration.

Punishing Olivia for a harmless birthday treat sends entirely the wrong message.

BTW, the best birthday cake my mum ever made was a chocolate Swiss roll fashioned in the shape of a space rocket, covered in chocolate and set on a "moonbase".

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Prats of The Week - Water Ban

Gosh it seems that there has been a veritable smorgasbord of "Prats of The Week" Awards recently.

Is that a good thing, or a bad thing I wonder?

Anyhoo, this time I doff my cap and polish the "Prats of The Week" orb (we really must design one and mass produce it) for the knobheads of Bury Town Hall.

Nanny's chums in the town hall have got their frilly knickers in a twist over the issue of people taking liquids into the town hall for events, such as dance classes.

Is this cos of security issues Ken?

Are they expecting some heinous plot to blow up the town hall using liquid explosives?

Errmmm...no!

The rule has been imposed to stop people turning up at events with their own alcohol.

Now all well and good if you want to make a profit selling booze at wedding receptions etc. However, the jobsworths at the town hall are also banning people from taking bottled water into dance classes.

Oh, of course there is an alternative, the town hall helpfully tells dance class students that they can buy soft drinks at the bar.

Ker farking ching!

This being a Nanny stupidity issue, there is one more factoid that I need to impart to you. People can still bring soft drinks into the town hall if they are attending a physical exercise classes.

Unfortunately, Nanny defines dance classes as a "social activity".

Commonsense would of course dictate that all Nanny has to do is to change the definition, or indeed simply turn a blind eye.

However, my loyal readers, as we all know Nanny never uses commonsense.

Nanny now confiscates the dance class members' water, and tells them to collect it on the way out.

They have quite happily been taking water there for the last 6 years, this fact is ignored by the town hall and council.

By the way, even if the dance class members wish to use ordinary tap water (supplied by the town hall) they are still charged for that!

Ker farking ching!

Bury Town Hall, well deserving Prats of The Week!

Drop them a line here Bury Town Hall.

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Big Brother - A Nation of Snoopers

Be warned, there is a very nasty little "game" being devised that will encourage members of the public to monitor CCTV cameras in their own homes in return for cash incentives.

Internet Eyes (a private company) will offer up to £1,000 if viewers spot shoplifting or other crimes in progress, on the dubious pretext of combining crime prevention with the incentive of winning money.

The scheme is due to go live in Stratford-upon-Avon in November, and will stream live footage to subscribers' home computers from CCTV cameras installed in shops and other businesses.

If viewers see a crime in progress, they can press a button to alert store detectives and collect points worth up to £1,000.

This is a snoopers charter, there are more than enough saddos who have nothing better to do than watch other people doing "very little" (eg the "reality" show Big Brother).

We will become a nation of snoopers!

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Prats of The Week - South Yorkshire Plod

Coming thick and fast these days, yet another "Prats of The Week" Award.

This time it goes to South Yorkshire police for their plans to report motorists to insurance companies if they leave valuables, CDs or even old coats on show in their cars.

Thus, were a theft to occur from a car and the victim had been reported as being "careless" with his stuff, the victim may well not be entitled to receive any insurance payout.

South Yorkshire Police Community Support Office have sent letters to motorists in the Doncaster area, telling them to keep valuables out of sight in their cars and warning that the police would be carrying out spot checks to make sure belongings were not left on view.

"If items are on view a form is submitted for action stating your vehicle was left in a vulnerable state. This form can then be forwarded to your insurance company for their actions.

This can result in your premiums going up or potentially your company refusing to pay out should a break-in to your vehicle occur."

Fair enough to advise people not to leave things in full view. However, reporting them to the insurance companies seems to me as though honest people are being penalised, simply because they are easier to target than criminals.

Surely if there were more police on the streets, then the number of thefts from vehicles would fall?

Or is the idea of catching criminals "too radical"?

Well deserving Prats of The Week!

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Booze Ban

Nanny's chums in Nottingham may well make it the first first city in England and Wales to have a total ban on street drinking.

The council is looking at by-laws to make it illegal to drink alcohol on every city street, park and open space. The theory being that this will reduce the amount of drunken loutish behaviour.

Now that may be all very well, but I would make one observation. There are already laws in existence to combat loutish behaviour, eg if the police deem you to be drunk and disorderly they can arrest you.

Therefore why do we need another law on top of that?

Could it be the the existing laws are simply not being properly applied?

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Veni Vidi Vici

My thanks to Guy Leven-Torres MA (Hons), FSEFA for providing me with this example of Nannyism, relating to an incident with some metal armour, from the world of Experimental Field Archaeology.

I have reproduced it in full, without any edits:

"If you teach national history, outside the curriculum, you are being political! Sounds dangerous...Could be seen as a Hitler Youth!

A cloud has hung over Legio IX Hispana for nearly two years and would have put us out of business if it had succeeded.......I have not until now been able to write about it due to legal necessities.

Above in the title are the words spoken to me yesterday by a Leftwing academic I know who is 'most concerned' about advanced plans to turn the Archaeological society Legio IX Hispana (V), otherwise known as the Society of Experimental Field Archaeology into an institution that compliments access to knowledge and training, for anybody from ages 16 to Pensionable age. We cannot take anybody under 16 years now, due to the hideous regulations laid down by the paedophile obsessed, homo- loving, marriage hating paranoid EU inspired State Directives, that are the reality behind the Children’s Act and the Criminal Records Bureau and soon to be ISA that replaces it with even more draconian idiocy. In short the EuroState is after your children and does not want you to have any say in the matter.

If you do not believe me, look only to the uproar last week over two police officers, both women refused permission to look after their own children. A few months ago a woman friend of my family, was refused permission by the local Surrey County Council to travel in the back of a taxi, with her own child until she was 'cleared to do so by the CRB'. The taxi was provided by Surrey Education to get the disabled child to school for 'special needs'. Her case is far from alone.

At our annual AGM last night, we decided that we could not afford the costs and risks of allowing any person under 16 years to join. The costs involved, to have all adult Members and Fellows vetted, would amount to thousands of pounds, money we do not have. We already pay out over £2,000 per annum for Insurance policies due to the ‘Elf n Safety’ Gestapo. Last year a yob punched a legionary in full armour (18swg) and broke his wrist. The teenage pupil was at one of our shows we do every year for a Water Board. The 15 years old boy asked if the re-enactor's armour was plastic. He was told it was heavy steel but he then assaulted the poor man, who of course felt nothing but found himself staring down at a youth rolling on the ground in agony with a broken wrist.

The teacher in charge of his group, scolded our Member for wearing ‘dangerous real armour’ and we faced several months of hell- 32 letters, threats, and finally a hearing in court against a professional Barrister, funded by a local authority claiming damages for the incident in favour of the boy, who stood to one side of the court grinning at the victim of his assault. The case has cost us £3,200 in time and finally engaging a Solicitor, who agreed to waive most of the other fees. He was as incensed as we were.

Last week, the Recorder threw the case out with the remark to the young man, ‘If you are so stupid as to punch steel plate, when not only a clear warning was given but only a complete idiot would not see that the armour was real, then you deserve what happened to you, no matter how painful!'

The Recorder has not left matters there and has ordered the teacher to appear before him to answer, 'Why you pursued such an obvious idiotic case? My colleagues and I are tired of these obviously politically motivated claims placed before the courts!' The Barrister and her Solicitor, are also under investigation for bringing the 'Law into disrepute'. The Barrister, a real little 'Madame' was told off in front of us all with the words, 'Why was this case brought at all? I do not wish to see you here before me again and I will be writing to your chambers!' We have been awarded £5,000 costs. The woman had tried to get me to settle 'damages' out of court before we went in, telling me that ‘You have not a hope Mr Leven-Torres!'

We won and she has arranged to pay us within the next few days. Common Sense is a rare commodity nowadays. I also informed the court about her bullying before we went in for the hearing. I am trained in Common Law and have proved a second time that it is still the Law of the land. Previously we had three women Recorders who seem to side with the plaintiff despite our protests, by refusing to allow us to give evidence, until finally we obtained a solicitor known to me for years. It worries me that women 'judges' automatically seem to side with yobs. Why? What is their motive? Gender and politics have no place in Justice!

What we want to do, is to turn Legio IX into a kind of adult 'boy-scouts' institution, where youngsters and the not so young, can have their brains unscrambled, be taught real history and a healthy respect for authority and Queen and Country free of all the Gramscian PC garbage foisted upon them at school. We will also teach them self -respect, their country’s real heritage but also a little drill that will produce the desired effect. We started a month or so ago and two mothers have telephoned us today, to say that their sons loved it. 'He is a different child!' said one... 'He has not stopped talking about it!' The boy is nearly 18 years old and the difference is amazing. He came to us dishevelled and sullen but we put him through his paces and the change that quickly came upon him was stunning, as he discovered his strengths through the challenges we gave him.
We taught him ancient drill and weapons handling (wooden swords), mock combat, even allowing him to takeover a squad of legionaries. He is now far more confident, better dressed and very much more outgoing after languishing for years in local comprehensive. We also teach map reading with the archaeological orienteering.

Yet there is a sinister cloud looming. An academic colleague is reporting us to the CRB as an ‘unauthorised child training facility that must be regulated!’ He added that

'If you teach national history, outside the curriculum, you are being political! Sounds dangerous...Could be seen as a Hitler Youth!'

God give us strength! Nobody escapes the PC Inquisition! Nobody! Why can they not just leave people alone?

Dr Goebbels would be proud!"

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Booze Matters

Dr Chris Record, writing in the Royal Society of Physician's journal Clinical Medicine, argues that moderate drinkers are footing the bill for a minority to drink to excess and that a minimum price for alcohol would end this subsidy.

"The fact is that 80 per cent of alcohol purchases are made by only 30 per cent of the population and at a time when families are finding it more difficult to make ends meet, it is unfair that the moderate drinking majority should be subsidising a heavy-drinking minority."

Great!

He then goes on to argue that:

"A minimum price would mean an increase in profit for retailers from alcohol, allowing them to make other products more affordable for moderate drinkers."

Someone please tell these people to mind their own business, doctors are the worst people for abusing drink, drugs and fags.

"Although the physical health of doctors compares favourably with that of the general population, they have an increased prevalence of alcohol and drug problems and a higher suicide rate. Data from the U.S.A. indicate that approximately 10% of physicians become dependent on psychoactive drugs or alcohol at some time during their careers. Dynamic influences in their upbringing, pressure of work and ready access to drugs may all predispose to drug or alcohol misuse."

Source Alcohol and drug use and related problems in the medical profession

We live in a "free market" economy where, in theory, we have a choice as to what to buy and where to buy it.

Minimum prices represent nothing more than crude social engineering, which will inevitably fail.

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Prats of The Week - The Home Orifice

Ooh I feel another Prats of The Week Award "coming upon me".

This time it goes to our ever "popular" and "efficient" Home Orifice.

For why?

Well loyal readers, wayback last April when the G20 protests were underway, a group of "anarchists" were nicked for impersonating police officers.

Some months later the Home Orifice, in its infinite wisdom, continues to pursue these "miscreants" through the courts for their "crime" of impersonating the police.

Now under normal circumstances I would totally agree with HO on this one, impersonating a police officer is a very serious issue and needs to be dealt with.

However, may I indulge you with some factoids here?

The "anarchists" were in fact a motley collection of students and "young professionals".

The "police costumes" were, to the uneducated eye, unlikely to be mistaken for the real Mac Coy.

One woman was dressed in a black bra, another had red high heels and stockings. The males of the group (long haired I would point out) dressed in blue boiler suits and the occasional riot helmet.

They sported a fake plastic machine gun and blasted the Ride of the Valkyries through a set of speakers.

Obviously they could easily be mistaken for real police officers!

Ho Hum!

Well, Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions, thinks so and decided last month that 11 of the Space Hijackers (for that is their name) will face a four-day trial at a magistrates' court in February.

Leah Borromeo, a freelance writer who was arrested wearing a black bra and boiler suit, said:

"If I'm guilty of anything it's of impersonating a stripper, not a police officer."

The Home Orifice, well deserving Prats of The Week!

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Prats of The Week - Sainsbury's Again!

Tis time loyal readers for another Prats of The Week Award.

This week, as many of you may have guessed, it goes to Sainsbury's (again!).

For why?

Well my old muckers, it seems that they had a wee bit of a bust up with one of their pregnant customers (Janet Lehain) over the issue of cheese.

Mrs Lehain asked for some Canadian Cheddar while she was shopping at Sainsbury's Clapham.

However, Sainsbury's is a fully paid up supporter of the Nanny state. As such the member of staff serving her refused to sell it to her.

Errmmm...for why?

Seemingly, according to the member of staff, it was made from unpasteurised milk and constitutes a danger to pregnant women.

Factoid: it transpires that pregnant women are advised to avoid eating ripened soft cheeses of the Brie, Camembert and blue-veined types, whether pasteurised or unpasteurised. Hard cheeses such as Cheddar can be safely eaten during pregnancy.

Mrs Lehain, unlike some people, was not prepared to take this lying down and said that she was aware of the current medical advice and wanted to buy the cheese.

Mrs Lehain, finally having extricated the cheese from the jobsworth, wrote a letter of complaint:

"What followed was the most patronising encounter I have had the misfortune of experiencing in a long time and made worse by the fact it was entirely unexpected given the seemingly simple task.

The member of staff told me how lucky my generation of pregnant women are to have such information available to them because this was not the case 'in her day'.

I could only respond by saying that I thought pregnant women in the past were probably a whole lot less stressed and guilt-ridden as a result.

I asked if I could have the cheese if I promised not to eat any of it. How ridiculous that I had to openly lie in order to buy a piece of cheese!

Even if I were ignorant of the risks associated with this period in a woman's life it is not the job of a supermarket to tell people what they should or not be eating.

Indeed if I am missing something, and the Government in its wisdom has made supermarkets guardians of public health without me noticing, then I should like to leave the country now."

Sainsbury's ended up making some grudging apology. However, it seems that they still believe that their policy of delivering unwanted "health advice" is correct.

I wonder if they do the same for pregnant women who buy booze and fags?

Quite why supermarkets now choose to act as Nanny's lickspittles is beyond me. I assume that they feel that they will get some favour in return.

Sainsbury's, well deserving Prats of The Week!

Here is Justin King's email (CEO of Sainsbury's), if you want to tell him what you think: justin.king@sainsburys.co.uk

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The Dangers of Teaspoons

I see that Nanny's prats in the supermarkets are up to their old tricks again.

This time Tesco, a store mentioned on this site on more than one occasion, has caused Emma Sheppard some degree of annoyance.

Ms Sheppard (21) was doing some shopping in Tesco Evesham, and included within her trolley a packet of teaspoons.

Can you guess what happened next children?

Yes, that's right, Tesco demanded to see proof of age from Ms Sheppard.

For why?

Well my loyal readers it seems that, in Tesco's eyes, teaspoons are dangerous and as such you need to be over 25 in order to buy them.

Ms Sheppard didn't have any id on her, and therefore was banned from buying the teaspoons.

The Nanny state robs people of their common sense and their liberties.

Tesco clearly needs to be dealt with in a manner that hurts them where they feel the most pain; in their bottom line.

Boycott Tesco!

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