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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Swine Flu

Swine Flu

I see that our media are really getting worked up over this swine flu "epidemic", so much so in fact that they have stopped placing the "financial meltdown" at the top of the headlines.

I also see that Nanny, in order to be seen to be doing something, has now decided to send every household in the UK a leaflet explaining what to do.

Nurse Strictness

Here is my advice (I am not a doctor), but it is common sense which you should already be doing anyway:

1 Don't waste your money on those masks, they don't work.

2 Wash your hands regularly and thoroughly (something that staff in some of Nanny's hospitals seem to have lost the habit of); especially when coming back inside the house, having handled money, before food and after a loo visit.

3 Eat properly.

4 Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth with your hands (or indeed any other organ of your body).

5 Don't live, eat, or sleep with pigs.

6 Continue to enjoy roast pork and pork sausages.

7 Avoid having sex with human beings and pigs.

That's it in a nutshell. I am now going to have a couple of Wall's finest!

BTW, now is a good time to buy hog futures, as when the swine flu "epidemic" turns out to be a storm in a teacup they will rebound.

Please do remember though, I am an accountant not a doctor:)

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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

BBC Twats

Prats of The WeekOh dear, such is the stupidity of this Nannyism that the perpetrators are destined to be awarded my ultra prestigious "Prats of The Week" Award - Twats of The Week.

Our old friends from Auntie (the BBC) have put themselves up for this award as a result of their recent actions, or rather "inactions", wrt changing a wheel.

Under normal circumstances it takes one person to change the wheel of a car. However, under Auntie's strict health and safety guidelines it takes:

- Two presenters
- Their producer
- A car mechanic
- A first aid expert
- A paramedic

Plus a few procedures, namely a risk assessment and a ream of health and safety forms.

The BBC Board

In theory all that was required for the BBC Radio Essex show "Big Skill" (29 March) was that the two presenters change the wheel...unfortunately once Nanny had stuck her oar in, all of the above bells and whistles were required.

Big Skill?

I don't think so!

Nice to see our licence fees are being well utilised!

The BBC, well deserving Twats of The Week!

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Monday, April 27, 2009

The Dangers of Flags

Cross of St George
I see that St George's Day last week was not able to pass without some Nannyism.

Liverpool Council (much "respected" by the residents of Liverpool) decided to remove St George's flags erected (can I say "erected"?) across the main road of Walton.

Seemingly the council was worried that they might fly off and obscure the windscreens of passing cars. Nanny's chums on the council sent out a workman in a truck with a cherry-picker to take all the flags down, accompanied by policemen in an unmarked van.

Nice to see that during times of economic crisis the council is still happy to waste taxpayers' money on a piffling health and safety "issue".

I am pleased to say that Nanny and the council got a sound kicking from the citizens of Liverpool, hundreds of whom inundated local radio stations with phone calls to complain.

The council was forced to reattach many of the flags.

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Friday, April 24, 2009

Odious!

People Snatcher
Not content with taking children into care, Nanny has now started snatching elderly people as well.

This story, reproduced in full from The Telegraph, highlights the plight of Betty Figg the 86 year old mother of Rosalind Figg. Betty was snatched from her daughter's home by Nanny's social services and police, just two days after Rosalind took her mother out of a care home in order to better look after her at home.

Whether the care home was providing better care than Rosalind could do is one issue. However, the manner of Nanny's snatch and grab raid was odious to say the least. Police arrived with a battering ram, and Betty was taken out in a distressed state in a wheelchair with a blanket over her head.

Would Nanny care to explain to us how she thinks that this snatch and grab raid, and the manner in which it was performed, was in the best interests of an 86 year old woman?

This is, to my view, one of the most odious actions that Nanny has taken that has ever been reported on this site.

Here is the article in full:

"Rosalind Figg had removed her 86-year-old mother Betty, who has dementia, from the care home she had lived in since August.

She hoped to look after her at her own house in Coventry and spent months adapting it for her needs, creating a downstairs bedroom complete with an alarm that would go off if she got up in the night and wheelchair ramps outside.

However as The Daily Telegraph reported, just two days after bringing her home on Saturday, social services backed up by police officers with a battering ram took her back to the care home over fears that her daughter would not be able to support her adequately.

Mrs Figg was taken from her daughter's house in a wheelchair and is now back in her room at Butts Croft House, which costs her family £2,000 a month.

Her daughter, 55, will visit solicitors to find out what her legal rights are and find out how she can bring her mother home again.

She said: "I haven't had any contact with the council since this happened and I am still determined to bring my mother home."

Miss Figg insisted she did not regret her decision to remove her mother from the care home.

She said: "She was sitting there like a cabbage, there was no interaction and she wasn't doing anything.

"You could see in two days living with me how much better she was."

Staff at the care home in Corley, Coventry, refused to comment and its owner was unavailable.

Its registered directors are Dr Koneru Prasad, 59, and his wife Dr Usha Koneru , 52.

The married couple are also GPs at a surgery in Peterborough, and run a charity, called Heal, that provides medical care to poor children in India.

Colin Green, director of community services at Coventry City Council, said the local authority, in conjunction with the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, invoked its powers under the Mental Health Act to obtain a warrant to take Mrs Figg back into care.

Social services decided she needed to be in a specialist home because they were concerned that the high level of care she required might not be met by her daughter and her partner.

He said: "If someone needs caring for 24 hours a day, seven days a week, we have to look at what additional support is there and whether one person can realistically offer that level of care.

"There is a lot of personal care management as well as the dispensation of often complex medication.

"We were never satisfied that it was in Mrs Figg's best interests to live with her daughter."

He said Butts Croft was a "very good care home" and said the appointment of an independent advocate for Mrs Figg would ensure that her needs and her desire where to live would be fully catered for.

He added that Mrs Figg's situation would continue to be assessed, adding: "We certainly hope there would be continued dialogue with the family
."

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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Happy St George's Day!

Cross of St George
Happy St George's Day everyone!

As we take today to celebrate being English, we can also take a little time to digest yesterday's budget.

A remarkable piece of engineering by Darling and Brown, based on the fantasy that growth will shoot back to 3.5% by 2011. They did what every amateur schoolboy physicist does, make the results fit the theory.

Regrettably for us, living in the real world, growth will not hit 3.5% in 2011 and Darling's "budget" will fall apart.

Aside from the fact that Treasury forecasts are always bollocks, even if they were for once accurate we find ourselves facing a debt of £1 Trillion.

Yes, read that figure again, £1 Trillion!



Given that we are now facing the worst economic situation in living memory, thanks to Brown's debt boom and unwillingness to put something away for a rainy day during the boom times, Nanny's expenditure will have to be cut.

Factoid: I warned about this in July 2003 "The Road To Nowhere - The Delusion of the Burgeoning Public Sector"

The question is will she cut areas that genuinely add no value; eg diversity awareness roles, non jobs in local councils, spin departments, government misinformation films on smoking/eating/boozing, the ego massaging Olympics etc?

This financial disaster, brought to us by ZaNuLabour, does offer an opportunity to roll back the frontiers of the state.

However, the short term effects will be very unpleasant, as all those people who have had their livelihoods paid for by Nanny start to experience the real world. We can expect some very unpleasant confrontations in the coming months, as the reality hits home.

Happy St George's Day!

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Prats of The Week - Brighton and Hove Council

Prats of The WeekAha nice to see that my own local council, Brighton and Hove, have earned themselves one of my renowned and internationally desired "Prats of The Week" awards.

Anton Cataldo a local artist recently lost a couple of his paintings, and decided to ask the public to help him find them.

His method?

He pinned some simple notices (similar to "lost cat/dog" notices) to a few trees (six to be precise), to make a direct appeal to the public.

Can you guess what happened next?

Yes, that's right, the local council contacted him and fined him £75.

Kerching!!!

For why?

Seemingly the notices were deemed by the prats in our local council as harmful to the trees!

Here is part of the text of the council's email sent to Mr Cataldo, were it not serious I would have assumed it was just taking the piss:

"Some of these posters had been stapled to trees. You appear to have little understanding that trees are living things.

Wounding the bark of a tree in any way can lead to attack by airborne fungal spores which, in the worst-case scenario, could lead to the loss of the tree
."

Needless to say, once Mr Cataldo made a public fuss over the issue, the prats in the council cancelled the fine.

Treemendous!

(The above joke is copyright to the Ken Frost).

Wasting all that time, effort and our taxes on an irrelevancy proves how out of touch and useless local councils really are.

As I have noted before on this site, when dealing with local councils intent on screwing you out of as much money as possible, the only way to deal with them is to stand up to them and create as much fuss as possible.

They are a waste of space and resources.

Brighton and Hove council, well deserving Prats of The Week.

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

The Dangers of Crosses and Holes

CrossEaster having just passed, saw another fight between common sense and Nanny's Health and Safety Gestapo.

For the last 50 Easters a cross has been erected (can I say "erected"?) on the Downs above Lewes, over the Easter period, by St Pancras Roman Catholic Church. However, this year, owing to a fuss over health and safety with Lewes District Council, there was no such erection.

This Easter over 200 people took part in the silent walk of witness through the town, before planting the 20ft cross in a hole on top of the Mount.

So far so good!

The cross would then normally have been left up for a few days. However, this year much like the Grand Old Duke of York and his 10,000 men, they had to take it all the way down again.

Rev Steve Daughtery, of Southover Church, said that the church had been told by the council that the hole was a health and safety issue and must not be left unattended, meaning that someone would have to guard the cross for days.

The district council said that the empty hole could not be left unguarded (ie someone would have to remain with the hole) or uncovered.

Fair enough, but surely if the cross was placed in the hole this meant that the hole was not uncovered?

Why therefore could the cross not be left in situ?

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Monday, April 20, 2009

Scum! - III

Scum!
I would like to offer Nanny, or rather more precisely ZaNuLabour, a little piece of advice; lest they be tempted to continue down the road of spreading malicious rumours via websites and compliant media organs (I note that the Sunday Mirror yesterday had a frontpage headline about various Tory MPs and a call girl, how ironic that came out within days of Smeargate!).

Anyhoo, my advice is as follows...the danger of spreading malicious rumours is that this rather odious tactic (or is it strategy?) can be used against the spreader.

For example there is a particularly juicy rumour, that has been doing the rounds for several years now, about a certain very senior ZaNuLabour MP (who may, or may not, be in the cabinet).

The rumour says that this MP, when he was a student had a run in with the Old Bill over a rather unfortunate "incident" in a public toilet...I am far too polite to go into details as to what the "incident" was.

Now whilst I can attest to the fact that this rumour really does exist, and really has been doing the rounds for quite a few years, I cannot attest to whether it is true or not.

For all I know it is complete tosh, and a fabrication.

The trouble with rumours is that they tend to stick, even if they are tosh.

I am far too nice a guy to name the MP, but ZaNuLabour might want to reflect on the fact that if they continue to spread muck some of it might come flying back at them.

Have a nice Monday everyone!:)

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Sunday, April 19, 2009

Brown Is Watching You

Brown Is Watching You
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Saturday, April 18, 2009

Scum! - II

The scum in ZaNuLabour is rising to the surface again:

"Whitehall sources unleashed an extraordinary salvo at Christopher Galley, the civil servant who leaked to Mr Green but was also freed from the threat of criminal prosecution.

One labelled him a 'complete loser'. Claiming that he had used a term from Star Trek as a computer log-in, an insider said: “That says it all, doesn’t it. The guy was a laughing stock
."

Source The Times

Clearly the death rattle of a dieing (or is it dying?...a tad the worse for wear this morning:)) administration.

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Friday, April 17, 2009

Prats of The Week - Navestock Parish Council

Prats of The WeekMy Oh My!

It has been a good long time since I last awarded my internationally renowned and acclaimed "Prats of The Week" Award.

This week it goes to the brain dead members of Navestock Parish Council. As we all know local councils, and their ilk, tend to not to "add value" to their local communities. However, this bunch "take the biscuit" as they clearly are intent on "subtracting value".

The brains trust that occupy the parish council decided that potholes in the road were a "natural" traffic caling measure. Therefore...and here's where the plan goes off the scale of loopyness..why not leave the potholes unrepaired?

Brilliant!

A scheme that is a sure fire winner!

With one fatal flaw..

It is bollocks!

1 The council collect taxes from local residents to maintain the basic infrastructure. What is the purpose of the taxes, or indeed the council, if holes in the road etc are not repaired?

2 Potholes are dangerous, to cars, bikes and pedestrians.

3 Cars swerve around potholes, thus posing a greater danger than simply travelling in a straight line at 30mph.

4 The cost of leaving the holes unrepaired, in terms of insurance claims for damaged cars, bikes and broken ankles will far outweigh and alleged savings in repair costs.

All in all Navestock Parish Council are a complete bunch of prats, and well deserving of the my "Prats of The Week" award.

FYI, work has now begun to repair the roads in Navestock. Essex County Council, which has responsibility for the area's roads, not unsurprisingly took the opposite view and have promised to fill in all potholes "as soon as possible".

I assume that the members of Navestock Parish Council will be resigning?

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Thursday, April 16, 2009

LA Fitness States The Bleedin' Obvious

WetnessWhy does my local LA Fitness feel the need to to warn me, via a big yellow warning cone, that the floor of the showers is wet?

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

The Bin Police - Dawn Raids

bin Brother
Be warned Nanny's obsession with our waste products knows no bounds, as residents of Chorley Lancashire are finding out to their cost.

Lancashire County Council are sending teams of 'wheelie bin police' out in the wee small hours to audit residents' rubbish, at a cost of £60K per annum.

The men in "high vis" clothing appear in a white council van at around 5:30am, and target preselected households by requisitioning the rubbish in the bins before the binmen collect it.

Oh if only I, and the rest of the country, could really believe that this was a useful exercise designed to improve our lives. The reality, as we all know, is that it is a ploy used by the council to find more ways to raise taxes.

The waste, no matter how well it is sorted and classified, all ends up in a land fill in India anyway. A cynic would argue that the "green agenda" pursued by local councils is a con trick designed to raise taxes.

What say you?

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The Dangers of Stepladders

Firemen and Ladders
I pity our poor firemen, in the good old days they were considered to be fit, healthy, strong and courageous individuals who would put their lives on the line for those in danger from conflagration.

These days, under Nanny, they are regarded as being somewhat lesser mortals who need to be rescued from life's many "dangers".

Nanny's chums from the Health and Safety Gestapo of Bedfordshire and Luton Fire and Rescue Service have ordered that firemen, who are trained to climb 300ft ladders, not mount (can I say "mount"?) small step ladders when fitting smoke alarms.

The alarms will, in future, be fitted by some Heath Robinson type 13ft "telescopic rod"...Oooh Errr Missus!

Suffice to say, the firemen think this idea is a load of old bollocks and note that they are trained to climb ladders (actually!).

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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Nanny's Little Helpers

Nanny's Little Helpers
Dictators use ordinary people as their eyes, ears and enforcers as a means of maintaining their grip on power.

Caroline Williams found this to her cost recently, when she tried to have a drink at the Cricketer pub in Hove.

Staff refused to serve her, and asked her to leave.

For why?

She was pregnant.

Nanny's Chief Medical Orificer would have us believe that pregnant women should not drink at all. However, as common sense and reality shows, this is bollocks.

So long as the drink is in moderation, there will be no damage to the baby.

It should also be noted that there is usually a gap between becoming pregnant, and knowing one is pregnant; the mother will most assuredly have had a few drinks during that period.

Anyhoo, Mrs Williams had consumed one pint of larger and was offered one half more by her friends.

Nanny's chums in the pub refused to serve her friend because of the "danger to the baby".

Mrs Williams then took a sip from another friend's glass, at which point Nanny's chums in the pub asked her to leave.

Public humiliation is a favourite tool of the dictator.

The road to dictatorship is paved with "good intentions", as our fellow citizens are encouraged to monitor our behaviour, and snoop on us...for "our own good"!

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Sunday, April 12, 2009

Scum!

Let no one be in any doubt, our country is run by vermin.

How ironic that Nanny's "strategy master" has been caught out by the fact that someone was monitoring what he was up to, and reading his emails.

Now ZaNuLabour know what the rest of us feel like!

Happy Easter!

Source The Times.

"DOWNING STREET e-mails setting out plans for a vicious smear campaign against the Tories, which last night forced the resignation of one of the prime minister’s most senior aides, are revealed today.

The e-mails, seen by The Sunday Times, expose how Gordon Brown’s head of strategy and planning wrote to a Labour spin doctor proposing a campaign of unfounded personal slurs against senior Tories. The smears, many of a sexual nature, were planned as part of a strategy to “destabilise” the opposition in the run-up to the general election.

The operation was designed to target David Cameron, the Conservative leader, George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, and three other Tory MPs. The messages from Damian McBride, a long-standing Labour aide, were sent from an official No 10 e-mail address. The unfounded smears suggested: “Putting the fear of God” into Osborne by spreading rumours that he took drugs and had sex with a prostitute. Spreading rumours about the mental health of Osborne’s wife. Challenging Cameron to reveal details of an “embarrassing illness”. Accusing a gay Tory MP of promoting his partner’s business interests in the Commons.

McBride’s e-mails were sent to Derek Draper, a former aide to Lord Mandelson and prominent Labour blogger. In an indication of how serious the plan was, McBride wrote about how to “sequence” the stories for maximum impact. The messages discuss “timing and technology” for placing the rumours on the web and contain suggested links to websites and photographs that could make the allegations appear more credible.

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The contents of the e-mails, which fell into the hands of Paul Staines, a political blogger, shatter Labour claims yesterday that McBride and Draper were “knocking around ideas” that were merely “juvenile and inappropriate”. At least one of the e-mails was copied to other Labour activists, including Charlie Whelan, who used to work as Brown’s spin doctor.

McBride, who was paid a six-figure salary by the taxpayer, resigned from his post last night as the attempted smear campaign was condemned by politicians from all sides. Labour MPs accused him of disgracing the party. Charles Clarke, the former home secretary, said: “Damian McBride has no place in 10 Downing Street. His actions bring shame to the Labour party.”

The e-mails were sent on January 13. The proposed slurs about Cameron, Osborne, Osborne’s wife Frances and three other Tory MPs, were designed to appear on a website called Red Rag, which McBride suggested should be advertised on LabourList, a website officially backed by the party.

Chris Grayling, the shadow home secretary, said the proposed smear campaign “beggared belief” and demanded an urgent explanation from the prime minister.

Tom Watson, a junior Cabinet Office minister who is referred to in passing in a separate e-mail from McBride to Draper about LabourList, has denied any involvement in the smear campaign.

A Downing Street spokesman said: “The prime minister has accepted Mr McBride’s resignation
."

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Friday, April 10, 2009

Happy Easter

Happy Easter
Happy Easter everyone!

Please make sure that you annoy Nanny by overindulging this Easter; by eating vast quantities of chocolate, and drinking humongous amounts of booze etc.

Have it large!

Ken

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Thursday, April 09, 2009

The Dangers of Pot

PotOh dear, Nanny's bin police are at it again!

Diana Angel, of Colchester Essex, recently attempted to dispose of some rubbish recently and was concerned to find that her dustbin men had ripped open her two plastic sacks and deemed the contents unsuitable for waste disposal.

What was the contents?

Spent nuclear fuel rods?

No!

Ten tonnes of dog excrement?

No!

The "disallowed" waste was in fact one plastic plant pot, and a small plastic broom handle.

For why did the bin police refuse to accept this waste?

Why, isn't obvious dear readers?

The bin police deemed that waste to too 'dangerous'!

When Mrs Angel, who has had three hip replacement operations, called her local council to report the problem she was told that she would have to take the items to a tip or pay £30 to have them collected.

Kerching!!!

Tim Young, councillor responsible for waste (there's a joke in there somewhere folks begging to come out!), said that the bin police are being encouraged to check bags where items are sticking out, to reduce the risk of health and safety hazards and to increase recycling rates.

He said, seemingly with a straight face:

"The items were not considered suitable for the normal weekly collection, they were considered to be a hazard.

It might have been dangerous for the refuse collectors to take it away.

If she had broken it up and wrapped it in newspaper they may may have taken it away
."

Could not the bin police have broken the stuff up themselves?

Who actually believes that our councils, and those that work for them, have any intention of serving anyone other than themselves and their own self interests?

We live in a country where Nanny encourages her staff to rip us off at every opportunity.

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Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Of Apes and Man

Of Apes and ManHere is are a few questions for our Home Economics Minister (sorry Home Secretary) Jacqui Smith (of no specific address) wrt her planned law, due to come into force later this year, re prostitution.

Under the new legislation a man will face prosecution if he pays for sex with a woman who is being "controlled for gain" by someone else.

In court he will not be able to argue he did not know the woman was being controlled, because ignorance is no defence.

Do you really think that this is provable in a court of law?

What about women who pay for sex?

To quote Gloucestershire Chief Constable Dr Tim Brain, he said that the complexity of the law may make gaining evidence hard.

"It will take a lot of unpicking to prove and therefore I am concerned that the deterrent effect the government was hoping to bring about will be lessened because the legislation is so complex."

Quite!

Aside from that I read today that male apes apparently give food for sex, will they be prosecuted too?

Re the concept of paying for "sex", what exactly does the word "sex" mean in terms of the law?

- Full scale intercourse?
- Slap and tickle?
- Dressing in women's underwear?
- Watching porn? etc

Many people get their rocks off in many different ways, as we know from reading the lurid stories about our MPs and their "sex" lives/proclivities.

Surely, it could be argued, that a man/woman who pays to watch porn is paying for sex?

Will Jacqui be bringing a prosecution case against her husband then?

I see also that Jac's Home Orifice had linked their website to a Japanese porn site the other day. Errmmm..who is running this shower?

The issue that our "respected" Home Secretary hasn't quite grasped is that once people think that you are corrupt and have become a joke, your career in politics is over.

Just a few thoughts.....

Over to you Hom Sec...

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Tuesday, April 07, 2009

The Grim RIPA - Local Government Spies

The Grim RIPA
Not for the first time on this site has our old "friend" The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) appeared with the depressing inevitability of an unloved season.

Recent figures obtained from 400 councils show that thousands of council staff have been authorised to use RIPA, which according to Nanny was meant to be used against terrorists, covertly keep a watch on local voters et al.

Seemingly 20% of those using the powers were below senior management grade, and few of our "respected" and "trusted" local authorities demonstrated that they checked as to whether the powers were being used appropriately.

The figures show that 182 local authorities employed 1,615 staff who had used the powers 10,133 times in the past five years.

Less than 10% of surveillance missions resulted in a prosecution, caution or fixed penalty notice.

The powers were also used on 451 investigations into fly-tipping investigations and on 88 cases of unlawful dog fouling.

Other reasons included "establishing the identities of those taking fairy lights from a Christmas tree", "illegal sale of shellfish" and "unauthorised internet access by staff".

Maybe our own Home Economics Minister (sorry, Home Secretary) would have benefited from her council spying on her husband...thus preventing him from claiming for watching porn, and defrauding the public purse?

The point being that by using these powers for trivia, Nanny and her braindead chums in the local councils are eroding the public's trust in the political system and making a mockery of the legislation intended for the prevention of terrorism.

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Monday, April 06, 2009

The Bleeding Obvious - How to waste Money

What The Fark!
Nanny's chums in Scotland have discovered another way of wasting taxpayers' money, by publishing a 140 page "diversity handbook" and distributing it to 7000 members of the police.

Nothing wrong with that, in theory, if the book contains some genuine insights and addresses known issues that are negatively impacting policing then it may well be money well spent.

The trouble is the book does not contain anything useful, and is merely a list of bleedin' obvious; points that your mum would have told you when you were a child; eg:

- "Don't lean on a disabled person's wheelchair".

- "Don't cover your mouth when talking to a lip reader".

- "Don't stare".

- "Don't ask a person with a facial disfigurement what happened".

These little pearls of wisdom (which mum would have told you as a kid), gleaned from consulting 75 different groups, cost the taxpayer £5K.

This daft waste of money implies that those running Scotland's police forces have little respect for the commonsense and abilities of the officers on the beat.

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Friday, April 03, 2009

Nanny Bans Crumpet

Nanny Bans Crumpet
Ooh eeerrr missus!

Nanny has banned crumpet!

That at least is what happened to Michelina Roy, 70, who fell foul of Nanny's crumpet police when she tried to feed the pigeons in Green Park a while ago.

Ms Roy was throwing crumpets to the pigeons, when she was approached by two council officials and fined £75 for her trouble.

Now the fine would be all very well if she had left a great big pile of crumpets littering the place. However, within seconds of the crumpets being tossed (can I say tossed?) they had been wolfed down by the pigeons.

Note, the fine was for littering it was not for feeding the pigeons; indeed she has been feeding the pigeons (bread) there for years.

Seemingly the council are now "investigating" the matter.

Kerching!!!

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Thursday, April 02, 2009

Braindead Councils - Again!

Braindead CouncilsThis is a fine example of the unthinking jobsworth attitude that contaminates local councils (and indeed central government).

Penny Batkin was driving Freddie, her four year old disabled son, to a children's hospice in Richmond. On the way there he began to gasp for breath so, not unreasonably, Mrs Batkin pulled over onto the pavement to help resuscitate him.

Can you guess what happened during this incident (FYI Freddie recovered)?

Yes, that's right, her car and her actions were recorded on camera by traffic wardens.

Can you guess what happened after that?

Yes, that's right, she received a £100 fine for parking on the pavement!

Now not unreasonably, given that she explained to the council what had happened, Mrs Batkin assumed that Richmond Council would waive the fine.

Can you guess what the council did, dear readers?

Yes, that's right, Richmond council refused to back down despite receiving her letter of explanation which had the support of her GP.

The appeals officer quoted a section of the Highway Code, and insisted it had been unnecessary to park on the pavement.

Needless to say, once the story hit the media, Richmond council were forced to eat crow and backed down. They have now cancelled the parking ticket.

I won't use the words in public that I am thinking of wrt the council officers who tried to fine Mrs Batkin. However, I will say this, unless people really stand up to these jobsworth braindead bullies, the councils and their lackeys will walk all over us.

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Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Traffic Cam?

Traffic CamToday is the so called "day of action" by an assortment of "characters" etc, who are intent on "stopping the City" and haranguing world leaders at Gordon Brown's ego driven G20 summit.

As one would expect, Nanny is keen to ensure that minimum disruption to her choreographed event takes place; as such, she is using all the paraphernalia at her command (eg CCTV) to keep matters under her control.

Now here's the funny thing, Nanny's own rules have caused her to switch off a whole set of CCTV cameras in the Westminster area.

For why?

Nanny's chums in the Department for Transport (DfT) have ruled that 33% of Westminster's CCTV cameras "do not fully meet the resolution standards required", and must be switched off before today (April Fool's Day).

The cameras cost local taxpayers £15M but, for reasons unclear for such a large outlay, they do not meet the quality required under the Traffic Management Act, which comes into force on 1 April.

The council have been desperately seeking "dispensation" from the transport secretary, Geoff Hoon. As at the time of writing it is unclear as to whether Hoon has granted "dispensation".

Only in the Nanny state would such a "jobsworth" farce actually arise. Commonsense should dictate that, under special circumstances such as this, the CCTV could be allowed to function for a couple of days before shut down.

There are of course two issues here:

1 Why did Westminster waste £15M on cameras that do not comply with the law?

2 Why are traffic cameras (let us not forget that is what the taxpayer has been told he/she has bought) being used for other purposes (do not be under any naive assumption that only during a G20 summit would these traffic cams be used to monitor people etc)?

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