Nanny's Secret Suitcase Searches

It seems that in her "enthusiasm" to find contraband booze and fags, Nanny is happily indulging in secret searches of our bags and suitcases at airports.

According to a report issued by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, John Vine, Nanny's customs staff routinely search travellers and holidaymakers bags without the owners being present.

The report notes that:

"There were no assurances that this power was being used in a lawful, proportionate and controlled manner.

There had been an absence of any assurance being undertaken to ensure that the correct procedures were being followed to protect Human Rights obligations during these searches."

"Ironically" covert searches of luggage are prohibited under the current Border Force Enforcement Handbook guidance.

Well then!

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Wankers!

Here, in a nutshell, is why we should never trust Nanny with any data or information ever!

"The Government has been forced to suspend an online consultation into pornography controls after a security breach exposed respondents’ confidential answers and contact details."

Source The Independent.
 

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The Golden Wonder Security Video - Resurrected

Re yesterday's article about Golden Wonder Security, it seems that the original video was removed by YouTube.

Fear ye not, I have found the same video, on another portal.

Enjoy!

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Golden Wonder and Hi Vis - UPDATED

As I know that many of my loyal readers hold the wearers of Hi Vis in particularly "fond" and "high" regard, I thought that you may appreciate this video of an altercation between some Hi Vis wearing security guards outside a Golden Wonder factory in Scunthorpe and a local photographer (known as "Hamst") who was trying to take a picture of the building for his site "Visit Scunthorpe".

The Hi Vis wearers are less than pleased, and shower Hamst with threats and abuse (at one point, one of them encourages a colleague to run him down with a car).

I reproduce Hamst's account of his encounter in full below:

"As many people will be aware over the years I have travelled around the town taking photographs of buildings, streets, people, event and many other scenes. I started many years ago both taking and collecting photographs although the vast majority of my images come from the past 4 to five years. I’ve built up quite a library containing thousands of pictures for posterity, a historical record and to use in various articles of local interest of which www.visitscunthorpe.com can be testament to.

A couple of years ago I was challenged whilst taking photo’s at a local under 14’s football match in which my son was taking part. I’d taken photo’s at numerous matches over the years and posted them to the football teams web page on Facebook, something which had caused no bother and the players loved tagging themselves and using them as profile pictures, both my sons team and the opposition. However, after this challenge and thinking I had gone some way to reassure the parent that there was no malice intended I thought I should look deeper into the law and photography within the UK than I previously had.

After hours of research and reading I though I’d gained enough knowledge and understanding to know where I stood within the law should I ever be confronted again, although I don’t profess to be an outright expert. 

Last year that knowledge was put to the test whilst I was passing the hospital and decided to take a few pictures to add to my library. The details of that can be read via this link; 

http://www.visitscunthorpe.com/ScunthorpeNews/Headline/Hospital-Security-Try-To-Prevent-Me-Taking-Photos

Late last year I was over at the Normanby Park and Foxhills Industrial Estates taking photo’s of various businesses and on the whole whilst there was some curiosity by some security guards manning the gates the only ones that queried what I was doing were at the Two Sisters plant. Although they weren’t too pleased with me taking pictures and originally tried to prevent me they conceded I was within my rights, overall the encounter I had with them was quite amicable.

On Tuesday 17th January I decided I would travel the Midland Road Industrial Estate via Cottage Beck Road to take some photographs of industry around this area. Passing the Golden Wonder plant I though it would be a good opportunity to take a few shots of the site, it quickly became clear I wasn’t welcome. I was stood on the road outside the site when a security officer approached. I switched my camera to video mode to record the encounter to protect both myself and the security guards from future false accusations. The footage can be seen above.

Obviously the conduct and tactics used by the two security officers has to be in question.

At 04:53 an employee, who can be seen just walking past, is getting into a car behind me can be heard saying, “I’ll run him over ” to which the female officer actively encourages her by saying, “you do that,” that’s when I moved onto the path. 

What also aggrieves me is that someone in a uniform representing a company in an apparent position of authority can try and intimidate members of the public by making up laws that don’t exist. This seemed to be an attempt to subjugate a member of the public into accepting what was being told was to be true. Further more hurling offensive insults and puerile slander, like seen at the end of the video, surely isn’t something that someone in that position should resort to.

In conclusion I take their actions to be an exception to the standard practise employed by the many fine security officers up and down the country and I can only assume these two individuals actions are not characteristic of the rest of the security team at Golden Wonder." 

UPDATED

Those of you with sharp eyes will have noticed that the video (that worked perfectly yesterday) has now been taken down by YouTube.

Fear not, here it is in all its glory!



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Prats of The Week - Morley Town Council

My thanks to a loyal reader who has nominated Morley Town Council for my prestigious, and internationally renowned "Prats of The Week" Award.

For why?

Well, let him explain in his own words:

"Morley Town Council have just published their annual report for 2010 and the balance sheet doesn't balance.

Why not?

Because they have hidden bits of it.

Worried about the consequences of revealing a confidential compromise settlement with the former Town Clerk after losing a tribunal, they decided that they would create a bit of Accountancy history - by publishing their balance sheet without a balance.

Already a laughing stock in rapidly spreading beancounter circles, the Audit Commission isn't overly impressed either. They described it as "unusual" and have fired a shot across the bows with this rather ominous remark:

'One would hope, however, that any financial information presented in an annual report would be both complete and consistent with the audited statutory accounts of the body.'

By September 30th, the council will have to reveal these numbers they are hiding, when they publish the audited accounts.

So why delay the inevitable?

Eventually, one concerned citizen (me) took a trip to the local library and found the figures in amongst old agendas & annual reports. They had been approved in open session back in May!

By their cack-handed handling of this the council have drawn more attention to themselves, and the issue is the talk of the Facebook Morley message boards.

There remains a big question about which side wanted confidentiality and why - something they are keeping very quiet on.

But can a public body use confidentiality to hide what may be very poor decisions?

Not for ever!

The Town Council is ran by a strange collective of independents who formed their own party, the Morley Borough Independents. (There is one British Nasty party member, but she has been successfully frozen out by them refusing to second her onto any committees). Morley's six City Council Members are also MBIs on the Town council but their influence in Leeds varies with whatever the latest power struggle is in a Council with a very tiny party majority."

Morley Town Council, well deserving Prats of The Week!

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Secrets and Lies

Those of us who live in Nanny Britain are sometimes forbidden from reading the details of certain events and rumours that others, in the rest of world, have free access to.

The latest cover up concerns the name of the minor royal allegedly involved in the cocaine/sex blackmail plot.

In Britain we are forbidden from knowing the name of the minor royal implicated in this plot. However, elsewhere people are free to read about it.

Those of you who are curious may care to visit Ninemsn Australia, where the royal is named.

Nanny's secrecy rules really do look absurd in the modern internet age.

However, this is nothing new.

During the abdication crisis the media in the US published Mrs Simpson's name and details of the affair, whilst the British media were forbidden from doing so.

Wealthy British citizens simply went to New York and read about it there.

The law has been an ass for at least 60 years!