Nanny Bans Paint - On Health and Safety Grounds

I was gemused to read in my local rag that Nanny has banned people from carrying tins of paint on buses, as they appear to be a hazard.

Ken Adams (a civil servant in his 50's) recently attempted to board the 5B with a tin of white emulsion.

The driver told him he couldn’t come on, so he had to walk home two miles.

Following a complaint in writing, he received a refreshing email response from Brighton and Hove Bus and Coach Company:

"I am very sorry and you have my heartfelt apologies. They are not fun things to carry long distances and I hope you made it home safely. 

It is policy because tins of paint are usually heavy and if the bus braked suddenly then they can open quite easily and do damage to the bus. They also have a habit of popping open in direct sunlight.

I know this is another ridiculous sign-of-the-times health and safety policy and not all our drivers adhere to this.” 

At least they admit that the health and safety policy is ridiculous!

Sounds like a whitewash to me! (HAHAHAHAHA).

Anyhoo, there is further irony.

Brighton and Hove Council is more than happy to accept paint at its two recycling centres.

So how can one get to these centres?

Oh that's easy, the council recommends that you go by bus!

Aha!

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Nanny Bans Trampolines

I am gemused to read that American Nanny has become a tad vexed about the dangers of trampolines, specifically children bouncing on trampolines in their back gardens.

According to the American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP) children are at high risk of breaking or fracturing a bone or receiving a joint dislocation.

Really!!

I find that astonishing!

The AAP then go on to warn that most injuries result from children falling off the trampolines and from collisions when more than one child is bouncing.

Even more astonishing!

The Telegraph quotes Dr Michele LaBotz, who co-authored a new AAP policy statement on their dangers:

“Paediatricians need to actively discourage recreational trampoline use. 

Families need to know that many injuries occur on the mat itself, and current data do not appear to demonstrate that netting or padding significantly decrease the risk of injury.”

British Nanny issued a similar warning three years ago (evidently to no avail!):

"Inadequate adult supervision, several people using the trampoline simultaneously and insufficient safety equipment seems inextricably linked with injury."

Yes but kids fall over and injure themselves all the time, it's part of growing up. This is how they learn how to handle risk and failure etc.

 

However, to the rescue comes Professor Mark Batt, president of the Society for Sports and Exercise Medicine, who said that parents should also consider the health benefits of trampolines, and that the evidence from AAP was "weak" (another example of Nanny using poorly researched data to back up her prejudices):

"As a doctor who is very concerned about physical activity levels in young people, I’d be very concerned about putting off a group of children from trampolining, who otherwise wouldn’t be very active."

As ever, with anything one does (even standing up), there is a risk. However, short of lying in a cocoon wrapped in cotton wool there is little one can do to eliminate risk from our lives. Nor should we do it; as a life without risk is, in effect, a living death.

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The Dangers of Deckchairs

Why has Nanny not issued a safety alert wrt the hazards from deckchairs, as experienced by the hapless swimmer in the article below?

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The Snoopers' Charter

It being a remarkably wet and windy day in Brighton, those of you wishing to shelter in a warm building on the seafront could do worse than pop along to Grand Hotel this evening.

For why?

I understand that the Open Rights Group at the Liberal Democrats party conference and Big Brother Watch will be at that venue and will be discussing the draft Communications Data Bill.

They have dubbed it the "Snoopers' Charter".

They will be discussing what's wrong with the draft Bill, and what to do about it.

Where and when:

The Grand Hotel (Alexandra suite)

97-99 King's Road,

Brighton,

BN1 2FW.

1815 - 1930. 

Speakers:

Nick Pickles, director, Big Brother Watch (Chair)

Jim Killock, executive director, the Open Rights Group

Mark Pack (Editor, LibDem Voice)

Dr Jenny Woods

I wonder if they have heard of Project Stellar Wind (going live in 2013)?

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Stoptober Cometh

I see we are but days away from Nanny's "Stoptober" campaign to encourage smokers to quit smoking en masse for 28 days.

In theory, if Nanny is to believed, those who manage to stop for 28 days have a greater chance of breaking their "addiction" (Nanny's word) than those who don't.

I predict that whilst the usage of fags may diminish temporarily during the 28 day period, the consumption of other "Nanny disapproved" substance (eg booze, illegal drugs, sugar and chocolate) will increase.

Like it or not, the brain is programmed to seek pleasure; deprive it of one "vice", and it will look for a substitute.

In the meantime Nanny may care to consider what she will do do supplement her ever dwindling tax revenue, if she ever does succeed in weaning large numbers of people of her much hated "weed".

FYI, my granddad used to smoke a robust substance called "Diggers' Shag" (I dare say the name would be banned now); one day he simply decided to stop smoking (of his own free will, not because the state lectured him to stop), and did just that. He had a strong will, and never suffered from withdrawal symptoms.

He died in the early 1970's, not from the effects of smoking but from complications caused by the piece of shrapnel that was still in him from when his ship HMS Pegasus was sunk by the Konigsberg in 1914.

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Meat Is Good For You!

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Nibble Nanny's Nuts

My thanks to loyal reader and Facebook chum Steve Hall, who has allowed me to share this example of Nanny nut nonsense that he and his 3 year old son had to endure.

In Nanny's view, the odour of nuts presents a clear and present danger to those with nut allergies:

"Had to go and pick are 3 yr old son up from school today because we gave him a peanut butter sandwich for his lunch and the school couldn't risk him breathing on a child with a peanut allergy. so they didn't think it was fair to put our son in a room on his own (quarantine !!!!) so would we pick him up. pmsl nanny state Britain at it's very best."

Doubtless there are those who will say that nut odours do cause an allergic reaction. However, they do not, facts contradict fantasy and hysteria.

As per Kids' Health:

"..just the smell of foods containing peanuts won't produce a reaction because the scent does not contain the protein."

As ever, Nanny was talking bollocks!

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HSE Bans Everything

My thanks to a loyal reader who recently pointed me to a Health and Safety fracas involving Nanny's Health and safety Executive (HSE) and AgChemAccess (an agrochemical company that imports products into the UK for global distribution).

AgChemAccess is suing the HSE for £2M,  for issuing "illegal" enforcement notices that stopped the company trading agrochemicals for two months and nearly forced the company out of business.

Farmers Weekly reports that the HSE brought the Norwich company's international agrochemical trade to a standstill for two months this summer, after it wrongly ordered movement restrictions on the whole of its UK-held stock.

An HSE investigator, who inspected third-party warehouses holding stock belonging to AgChemAccess, issued the company with a series of enforcement notices on 11 July. He believed the company was breaching safety regulations, and enforced a two-month movement ban on its UK-held stock.

However, on 29 August, following successful judicial review proceedings, the inspector accepted that he had no reasonable grounds to issue the enforcement notices and these were quashed.

Nicholas Gooch, director of AgChemAccess, said:

"The HSE did not engage with us in any way to try to resolve the problem.

They just simply put a blanket on us."

As loyal readers know, Nanny's obsession with one size fits all and a jobsworth attitude to regulations is a very dangerous combination.

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The Joy of Mars

The trouble with living in a humourless, pompous and priggish Nanny state is the fact that many of us end up in some ways behaving like Nanny.

Step forward the chocolate manufacturing company Mars, which has been overcome with priggishness and pomposity over how some of its customers use its iconic sugar laden confection the Mars bar.

To what usage of a Mars bar do I refer?

Why none other than the famous deep-fried Mars bar, allegedly first fried by the Carron Fish Bar in Stonehaven, in Aberdeenshire, some twenty years ago.

Anyhoo, Mars is not at all happy that their healthy product has been misused in this way for so long and has now written to the owners of the Carron Fish Bar saying the product is not authorised or endorsed as it does not fit the company's promotion of healthy living.

Mars want a menu disclaimer, to make people aware deep-frying is not what the company has in mind for its product.

FYI a 54g Mars bar contains 242 calories and 9.4g of fat.

A Mars spokesperson told the BBC:

"We are really flattered that customers of Carron Fish Bar like our product so much that it has now become a flagship product for the store.

No application for a protected geographical indication has been filed to date.

Should an application be filed, unfortunately, we wouldn't be able to support it as deep-frying one of our products would go against our commitment to promoting healthy, active lifestyles."

By all accounts the owner of the fish bar is happy to come to an amicable arrangement with Mars.

However, it does seem a remarkably priggish attitude by Mars; I wonder what prompted them to react after twenty years?


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Prats of The Week - Bristol City Council

Hoozah, 'tis another Monday morning; and therefore time to award one of my prestigious, and internationally, renowned "Prats of The Week" Awards!

This week it goes to Bristol City Council, who have combined prattery with a wee bit of ker farking ching.

Anyhoo, for why am I awarding the council this award?

Just ask Abus, a Bristol bus company, whose drivers have been issued with parking tickets for....can you guess children?

Yes, that's right, waiting in city centre bus stops!

Ker farking ching!

Abus owner, Alan Peters, told the BBC that the council agreed his buses could wait at quiet stops before picking up passengers.

However, Nanny's chums from Bristol City Council said that tickets were issued when buses were pulled up for more than five minutes due to "considerable demand" from operators.

Mr Peters said over the past two years, his drivers have been issued with an average of one parking ticket per month, the majority of which he has successfully appealed against.

"Ninety per cent of the tickets have been rescinded but I still have to write the appeal and sometimes go to a parking tribunal. It's all time-consuming."

Bristol City Council gave a jobsworth meaningless response:

"We are aware of the situation with Abus and have advised them of the current situation with regards to enforcement action. 

We are looking, as stated, to finding a working solution."

Bristol City Council, well deserving Prats of The Week!

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Nanny Hates Fags - Blackpool Bans Smoking

As loyal readers know, Nanny really hates smoking.

This is of course rather odd, given that she derives a rather large amount of revenue from the duties imposed on fags and the taxes raised on the profits of the fag companies and the shops and supermarkets that sell them.

Anyhoo, despite the fact that we are in a major recession and (according to the media) the NHS is falling apart, Nanny's NHS in Blackpool has decided to spend some money erecting (there's that pre watershed word again folks!) signs in and around various parks and playing fields in the Blackpool area designating them "smoke free zones".

LOL:)

What a farking waste of money!

According to an article in last month's Blackpool Gazette, signs are already being installed in council-owned playgrounds, and now town hall chiefs are seeking to extend the policy to parks in full.

For why?

Some dodgy "research" has Nanny believing that second hand smoke in a public open space poses a serious health risk to.....yes, you've guessed it.....children!

WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?

How I loath that expression.

Now further bans are planned for Anchorsholme, GeorgeBancroft, Boundary, Claremont, Crossland Road, East Pines, Highfield Road, Kingscote, and Watson Road parks; Central Drive Recreation Ground, Fishers Field, Gynn Square and Whiteholme playing fields.

The park signs will be inscribed with the message:

“To protect children this is a designated smokefree site.”

The initiative is part of the “Altogether Now – a Legacy for Blackpool” health promotion campaign, which is a partnership between Blackpool Council, NHS Blackpool and Blackpool Football Club.

Pass the sick bag someone.

Coun Ivan Taylor, chairman of Blackpool’s Health and Wellbeing Board, said:

“The idea is to protect the children who are on the playgrounds.

I don’t think it is reasonable for children who are playing to be suffering from inhaling smoke and to being influenced by seeing adults also smoking.

We’ll have to wait and see what the reaction is but I think most people would welcome the reason for it.

Smoking is a killer and we need to do all we can to discourage it.”

What a load of nauseating crap!

How about using the money to improve the quality of the parks by removing the drunks, addicts and other assorted scumbags who pose a far greater danger to the people who use them?

Has this guy never walked down Blackpool's Golden Mile, at around midnight on a Friday, where he can see some real "health issues" that need more urgent attention?

This is money being wasted on a non existent issue!

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TUC Backs Down

On Tuesday I wrote about the TUC selling T shirts celebrating the future death of Lady Thatcher:

"I assume therefore she will be sending the Rozzers to Brighton to discuss with the "brothers" at the TUC their association with an organisation that is flogging T shirts celebrating the future death of Lady Thatcher?

It is quite pathetic that the TUC is still fighting battles that ended over 20 years ago and bizarre that an elderly lady, in fragile health, still scares the hell out of the "brothers"! "

As ever, when a media storm erupts, those who find themselves trying to defend the indefensible back down.

Thus it should come as no surprise to learn that the T shirts have now been withdrawn, and that Brighton council claim that they never knew about it until the media broke the news and Brendan Barber (TUC Chairman - who will receive a £100K golden goodbye when he retires this year) has rushed to condemn them as “completely inappropriate”; I assume he was worried about losing his £100K payoff.

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Nanny's Unhealthy Skool Dinners

I am gemused (but not at all surprised) to see that, despite Nanny's attempts to force kids to eat "skool dinners" and to conduct mass inspections of lunch boxes, skool dinners are not as healthy as Nanny would have us believe.

Dispatches shown on Channel 4 on Monday revealed that, despite Jamie Oliver's high-profile campaign to improve school meals and the millions of pounds pumped into improving school canteens etc, evidence suggests that strategies to improve the food served in all our schools are fast coming undone.

"The Dispatches survey provides worrying new evidence about previously banned products being made available to pupils. The programme speaks to one catering supplier who says that once again many schools are now looking to source cheap, low-quality products. 

One parent did his own detective work to discover out of the £2.10 per meal charged by one council, only 59 pence was being spent on ingredients.

As a consequence many children are voting with their feet, either bringing their own packed lunches or going outside school and eating from take-aways. 

Dispatches examines the councils trying to fight back and restrict the growth of fast food outlets near schools, and reveals the national chain reluctant to take no for an answer."

Now, what was I saying the other day about Nanny's chums in Cardiff council?

Oh yes, I remember:

"Nanny's chums in Cardiff council for recently creating a temporary in house job (note the job is only available to employees of Cardiff council - why?), the sole purpose of which seems to be to encourage children to eat more school meals."

It seems that, despite what she says in public, Nanny is determined to force children to eat shite; so long as it is her shite!

Winter diet tip: Given that we are now entering the autumn, an easy way to ensure kids keep warm is to feed them a slice of toast liberally spread with dripping and salt.

It's nutritious, tasty and cheap!

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TUC Dances On Elderly Lady's Grave

As loyal readers know, Nanny is normally quick to send in the Rozzers when a hapless moron makes "joke" on twitter about someone dying or tweets an insulting comment about various media "personalities".

I assume therefore she will be sending the Rozzers to Brighton to discuss with the "brothers" at the TUC their association with an organisation that is flogging T shirts celebrating the future death of Lady Thatcher?

It is quite pathetic that the TUC is still fighting battles that ended over 20 years ago and bizarre that an elderly lady, in fragile health, still scares the hell out of the "brothers"!

Feel free to ask Nanny to conduct an in investigation into this.

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Prats of The Week - Brighton Council

Oooh err missus, 'tis a Monday morning and time to award one of my prestigious and internationally renowned "Prats of The Week" Awards.

This week it goes to Brighton council.

For why?

A few days ago the council turned Windmill Street into a one way street with a cycle lane, and erected (can I say "erected" before the 9PM watershed?) two "no entry" signs at one end of the road.

Nothing wrong with that, or was there?

Take a wee look at the above photo, can you tell me what the problem is children?

Yes, that's right, the newly painted cycle lane on the left hand side of the street has a nice big arrow pointing in the opposite direction to the one way traffic flow!

Thus, were cyclists to ignore the no entry signs, cyclists would find themselves cycling in the wrong direction down a one way street into oncoming traffic!

Whatever happened to Nanny's obsession with health and safety?

Brighton council, well deserving Prats of The Week!

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Booze Matters - Nanny Tries To Save Pensioners

Pass the sick bag someone, I see that Nanny is now having a go at the drinking habits of pensioners.

The BBC's Panorama programme, no doubt at the behest of Nanny, decided to ask Sheffield University to model the effects of a 50p per unit minimum price.

Statisticians estimated the effect would be 50,000 fewer alcohol-related deaths in England among over 65s, over the course of 10 years.

Suffice to say this will now feature on next Monday's Panorama which airs ("oddly" enough) at the same time as Andrew Lansley (who thought minimum pricing was bollocks) has been sacked and the Home Orifice is saying the following:

 "We will introduce a minimum unit price for alcohol, ensuring for the first time that alcohol can only be sold at a sensible and appropriate price. 

The proposal has the backing of the Royal College of Physicians and the Association of Chief Police Officers and could mean 50,000 fewer crimes and around 900 fewer alcohol related deaths per year by the end of the decade.

We will consult on the level of minimum unit price in the autumn.” 

There you have it ladies and gentlemen, Nanny has made her mind up and is using the BBC to do her dirty work for her by pre empting a "hue and cry" over pensioner deaths from alcohol.

In the programme, according to the Telegraph, Sarah Wadd, director of the Substance Misuse and Ageing Research Team at the University of Bedfordshire, says:

“We might be on a cusp of an epidemic of people drinking problematically in old age.”

"We might be"???

That doesn't sound very scientific to me!

Dr Richard Aspinall, a liver specialist at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth, said:

"We think of a very visible social disorder, consequences of young people binge drinking on a Saturday night in our town centres but what’s much more hidden is quiet, below the radar drinking at home and it’s very easy for people to drink more than they are actually aware of, to get above the safe limits.”

FFS!

Nanny pretends to be concerned about the welfare of pensioners, that makes me puke!

Were Nanny to be really so concerned about pensioners welfare and well being, she would address the following issues:

- The lousy level of pensions
- The disgraceful "quality" of care being provided to the elderly by public and private healthcare organisations
- Discrimination being practised against the elderly by the NHS in terms of speed and quality of treatments offered
- The patronising treatment of the elderly by society as a whole, and most specifically the state
- The right to assisted death with dignity, as and when someone (not necessarily elderly) wants it etc.

Nanny will not address these issues, instead she will focus on Cameron's fetish of minimum alcohol pricing.

As and when I start to enter my final years I can assure you that the thought of ending up in one of Nanny's homes, on a drip wallowing in my own shit, unwashed uncared for will most certainly drive me to drink.

I want no part Nanny's system for the elderly and will most assuredly (if I am still physically/mentally able) end my days with dignity with a bottle of vodka and a box of pills before Nanny can get her bony hands on me!

This country offers elderly people nothing but misery to look forward to, Nanny should be subsidising their drink not taxing it!

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Nanny's Filtering Obsession

As I have noted before on this site, Nanny has a wee bit of an obsession about filtering what we are allowed to access on the internet. Nanny uses tired old excuse "won't someone think of the children?" as her rationale for introducing filtering which, she claims, will limit children's access to porn on the web.

Nanny wants people automatically barred from accessing "unsuitable" adult material, unless they actually choose to view it.

Who decides what is "unsuitable" I wonder?

Define "porn"? 

ROFLOL!

Clearly the cretins within the government who have come up with this idea have never heard of proxy access. I guarantee that the average teenager/kid is light years ahead of these cretins, and can easily override any anti porn filter.

Anyhoo, aside from this idea being a nonsense, it also sets a dangerous precedent and will tempt future governments to filter other content that Nanny may not approve of.

To this end the Open Right Group are asking people to email them and their MPs if they disagree with this proposal:

"Some MPs and religious groups are mounting a campaign to push 'default on' network level blocking on the UK Internet.[1] [2] There is now a public consultation considering this idea.

However well meaning, we know from our own research [3] what happens when ISPs put blocks on the Internet. Through accident or abuse, censorship leads to lots more content being blocked than originally intended.[4][5]

Sites will get blocked if they casually mention sex. Sexual health sites will get caught.[6] The websites of clubs and bars, personal blogs and community sites get filtered. Chat sites may be banned – because they might not be sufficiently “policed”. In short, if you’re small and independent, you will suffer. 

Innovation and free speech are threatened by this clumsy website blocking. And the government is considering turning this on by default.[7] You may be presented with a list of ticked “filtered” categories, and have to untick them if you want to avoid the filtering.

And if this happens at the network, then future governments can easily extend what gets filtered without having to ask you. Mass censorship would be couple of clicks away. 

This action helps you submit evidence to the public consultation - and also to your MP, so they know ordinary people are concerned about this."

Here is the link if you wish to send your MP an email Stop Opt-Out Adult Filtering.

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Nanny's Appetite For Life

"Kudos" to Nanny's chums in Cardiff council for recently creating a temporary in house job (note the job is only available to employees of Cardiff council - why?), the sole purpose of which seems to be to encourage children to eat more school meals.

When I was a lad, my fellow pupils and I would stuff our faces (no boiled cabbage though); there was absolutely no need for us to be encouraged to eat!

Why does the council wish kids to eat more school meals, given that school meals have been given a drubbing by the likes of Jamie Oliver et al over the last few years?

Aren't many school meals, generally, the same reheated shite that people serve at home anyway?

Appetite For Life Co-ordinator

ED50126358
Job Category: Catering/Cleaning/Caretaking
Contract type: Temporary
Working hours: Full Time
Department: Education
Grade: Grade 6
Salary: £22,221 - £26,276
Closing date: 17/08/2012

This vacancy is only available to employees of Cardiff Council including Cardiffworks and Agency Workers currently engaged with the Council.

A unique opportunity has arisen for the post of Appetite for Life Coordinator, on a 12 month secondment, to work with Cardiff Catering, the Council’s in-house Education Catering service.

The successful applicant will be required to coordinate the implementation of the Appetite for Life Food and Drink Standards in schools across Cardiff and to develop initiatives to encourage the uptake of school meals through links with schools, parents, children and local health groups. The post holder will represent Cardiff on various related groups and promote partnership working.

You will need to have a sound catering and/or nutrition background with relevant skills, qualifications and experience of working within schools. You will report to the Catering Services Manager and work within a team of professionals in this forward thinking and award winning service group.

You should enjoy the interaction with children and young people and have a mature and robust personality. Candidates should possess a full valid driving license.

This post is subject to a Criminal Records Bureau Enhanced check.

This post is temporary up to August 2013.

Internal candidates who wish to apply for this position on a secondment basis must obtain approval prior to application using Form SEC1 (4.C.081). Requests may only be approved by the relevant Chief Officer or senior nominated officer graded no lower than OM2 or in the case of schools based staff the Headteacher / Governing Body.

This post is suitable for job share.

We welcome applications in both English and Welsh.

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Brighton's Incompetent Ker Farking Ching!

As loyal readers know, Nanny and her minions in her local councils love to find ways to charge the merry hell out of her "loyal" subjects/taxpayers.

The easiest method, favoured by councils, is that of parking charges.

Loyal readers with good memories (unsullied by drink and other substances) may well recall that in May I wrote of Brighton council's greedy plans to charge the hell out of visiting motorists along the seafront, by charging £20 per day for people parking along Madeira Drive.

Ker Farking Ching!

Anyhoo, all this greed is all very nice and dandy if the humble taxpayers actually pay the price and hand the money over.

However, there is a wee fly in Nanny's oinkment wrt charging people for parking in Brighton.

It seems that parking meters in Brighton and Hove do not accept new 5p and 10p coins, introduced at the beginning of 2012.

For why?

The council have not bothered telling the devices to take them.

To add to the parking fiasco, a mere 50 parking meters in Brighton accept card payments.

Well done lads!

Nanny's chums at the Treasury are unimpressed, an insider told The Argus (Brighton's local rag) that councils had been warned far in advance of the change and advised to re-calibrate their machines.

Quote:

“There is really no excuse.”

Brighton council are, of course, unrepentant:

“Our parking machines do not accept the new 5p and 10p coins. 

We took this into account when setting the new tariffs we’ve brought in, with the result that all our tariffs can now be paid without having to use the new coins. 

We have put notices on all our machines asking people not to use the new coins, and we will be replacing the redundant coin slots as and when individual machines need servicing. 

We’re also looking to make things easier for residents by introducing more cashless payment options for parking, such as by card or by phone, over the next year or so.”

My view is simple, if Nanny and her chums intend to screw us at least they should do it efficiently!

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Prats of The Week - The UKBA

'Tis a grey September Monday morning, and therefore an ideal time to award one of my prestigious and internationally renowned "Prats of The Week" Awards.

This week it goes to our old chums in the UK Border Agency (UKBA), an organisation that has already featured on this site a couple of times.

Why therefore am I awarding them a "Prats of The Week"?

Ask Professor John Tulloch (70), who appeared on the front pages as one of the bloodied, dazed victims of the 7/7 London bombings.

The Prince of Wales visited him in hospital afterwards, and proclaimed him an example of the “resilience of the British people”.

The Telegraph notes that Prof Tulloch can trace his British ancestry back to the 14th century, was born to British parents in a British colony. He has a British wife, children and brother. He was raised and educated in Britain from the age of three, has substantial assets and property here and has lived or worked in the UK for most of his life, holding a series of posts at British universities. He even held a British passport.

However, he was born to a British Army officer in pre-independence India. This makes him a “British subject without citizenship”.

Professor Tulloch took a job in Australia and was granted Australian citizenship. Unknown to him, this automatically cancelled both his British nationality and his right to live in Britain. 

Can you guess what happened next children?

Yes, that's right, when he applied to renew his British passport, it was confiscated.
Ironically he was able to return to the UK, where he has held a professorship of communications at Brunel and was head of the School of Journalism at Cardiff University, under a work permit and has spent the majority of his time in recent years in this country.

However, as he is about to semi retire, he has now been told by the UKBA that he can no longer permanently remain here and can only visit for brief periods as a tourist. He cannot apply for naturalisation.

Professor Tulloch would have more chance of staying here if he had been a perpetrator, rather than a victim, of terrorism. Just ask Ismail Abdurahman, a Somali convicted of providing a safe house for the would-be 21/7 bomber, Hussain Osman, who was excused deportation after serving his prison sentence on the grounds that his human rights would be at risk if he was returned to Somalia.

A UKBA is quoted:

“It is the responsibility of an individual to check that they will not lose a previously acquired nationality or citizenship on acquiring an additional one.” 

The UKBA, well deserving Prats of The Week!

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