tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377446.post116385142571602909..comments2024-03-05T17:55:58.806+00:00Comments on Nanny Knows Best: Plodding AlongKen Frosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13568488818950912374noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377446.post-1165943605563566372006-12-12T17:13:00.000+00:002006-12-12T17:13:00.000+00:00Well what we need is a government that will get ba...Well what we need is a government that will get back to policing properly. if the police won't do it sack the lot of them and use the army. bad idea but it will tell the police that they are expendable and may get them to do their job.<BR/><BR/>The police should be allowed guns to. If you are told to stop by the police and you keep running it should be legal for them to shoot you unless you actually stop and then make the criminal pay for the hospital bill.youdontknowmehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17671696083535500783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377446.post-1165892526259065062006-12-12T03:02:00.000+00:002006-12-12T03:02:00.000+00:00Youdon'tknowme said:.."It will probably cost a lot...Youdon'tknowme said:<BR/><BR/>.."It will probably cost a lot of money but it will get the police back on the streets and not stuck filling in forms..."<BR/><BR/>You have missed the point of nanny's police these days.<BR/><BR/>The Police are basically Tax Collectors, not crime fighters. <BR/><BR/>No Bobby in his or her right mind would take on a criminal. <BR/><BR/>It's much safer to harras mini-van Mommies for not wearing a seatbelt correctly, or to pull over a suspected "Drunk Driver" than to take on a possibly armed gangster.<BR/><BR/>The British police are the most useless form of life on the planet.<BR/><BR/>The Bobbies are safe in the station filling out forms. <BR/><BR/>The rest of the once Great Brits have to deal with the gangsters and criminals.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377446.post-1165856773903845772006-12-11T17:06:00.000+00:002006-12-11T17:06:00.000+00:00Some of these forms will probably be needed but I ...Some of these forms will probably be needed but I don't see why they can't just hire administrators to do most of it. It will probably cost a lot of money but it will get the police back on the streets and not stuck filling in forms.youdontknowmehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17671696083535500783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377446.post-1165834770336023512006-12-11T10:59:00.000+00:002006-12-11T10:59:00.000+00:00Ken observed;"Nanny's Home Office claims it has ma...Ken observed;<BR/><BR/>"Nanny's Home Office claims it has made 7,700 forms across the 43 police forces obsolete over the past two years." <BR/><BR/>Ah! yes, but an obsolete form is not the same as a reduced form burden. This would be especially so when the 43 forces create their own forms, presumably in response to someone's need to record and count things. <BR/><BR/>And of course 7700 forms sounds impressive, but divide that by 43, since forces will have their own versions of the same 'form' (The concept of suggesting a police force has form is mildly amusing) and you get 180 or thereabouts.<BR/><BR/>Not so impressive.<BR/><BR/>No doubt there will be an army of clerical workers somewhere doing something in triplicate with all these forms. If Nanny is 'smart' they will be people who may vote for her for providing jobs. <BR/><BR/>If she is not they will probably be outsource workers in India or China with no votes.<BR/><BR/>The great thing about forms is that they provide a means of measurement for things that might otherwise be unmeasurable, even if that measurement only provides information about the number of forms filled in.<BR/><BR/>Nanny knows that once you have numbers they suddenly become incontrovertible truth. Nanny has been told this by her chum Gordon who knows just how to make the most of numbers - especially repetitive numbers that might, for example, be the same number popping up in several different forms.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377446.post-1165834246048426482006-12-11T10:50:00.000+00:002006-12-11T10:50:00.000+00:00"We knew how to be nice to the nice people, and na..."We knew how to be nice to the nice people, and nasty to the nasty people."<BR/><BR/>-A remembered quotation from a retired police officer explaining how and why British policing was once so much more efficient.Black Seahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347464061061628147noreply@blogger.com