Different standards for the ruling elite

Yet again the double standards of our ruling "Elite" come to the fore.

The G20 summit will have an indoor smoking area. WTF, are they not bound by the same law as you and me. If not, why not? I suppose they'll say it is "security" or some other weasle worded bullshit. Well, I value my security in that I don't want to die of pneumonia, in a pub garden at -5 deg C.

World leaders to flout the smoking ban.

I sincerely hope the local authority come down on them and fine the World leaders for smoking illegally. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

Bastards

Update:

Members of pro-choice group Freedom2choose are understandably furious with this decision, claiming it as double standards.

Andy Davis, chairman of the group states, 'this clearly demonstrates that there are alternative solutions to the current smoking ban that our government is ignoring. Smoking rooms would provide welcome relief for our hospitality industry with the ban being acknowledged as one of the major factors in its current downturn.'

This amendment is also viewed as confirmation by the government that it is inconvenient (unnecessary) for smokers to leave the premises should they wish to smoke, and that it isn't deemed civilised to treat people in this manner.

'Our government are accommodating, rightly so, the political leaders from across the globe, yet they are not prepared to accommodate millions of their own citizens,' continues Andy Davis. 'This concession should now be made available to all private businesses and clubs for them to adopt if they so desire.'

The smoking ban legislation, incorporated into the Health Act 2006, prevents smoking in all substantially enclosed public places and all places of work. The Excel Exhibition Centre falls into this category.

Source: PR-inside, 11 March 2009

So I might be a fraudster

Dizzy has found this by Fraser Nelson.




Bugger. I'm with Natwest.

Powers of arrest

I was just browsing another web site a moment ago, when my eye was drawn to this article in the Guardian. It's about an ex Police Officer who is petitioning No 10 to repeal a particularly odious piece of legislation.

A retired senior police officer has expressed concern about the "sweeping power" that he claims is being abused on a daily basis in all of the 43 police forces.


Read the whole story here.

It would appear that the plods can arrest you at the drop of a hat. Didn't know it had come to that.

Oooh what a big one

A house of Chavs and chavettes have just had their 62" TV impounded after complaints about excessive noise. Why on earth does anyone need that size of TV? If they had a mansion, then maybe, but in a two up,two down terraced house. Oh and by the way it was all for the sake of the chillun.


It makes you sick, no wonder they're both partially deaf.

It's probably the TV that caused the deafness in the first case.

Hope for the future

And yeah it shall come to pass........

And I'm reserving a plot for the future, for the rest of the shits in Westminster.

Bearded Tossers

I see that the radical Islamists were out in force in Luton today protesting against the Royal Anglican Regiment.

You can watch it here

They would have really have been screwed if the "Poachers" had turned gamekeepers. Notice the fixed bayonets.

Riot Training

I was visiting an old Aunt in Hospital this afternoon. I happened to eavesdrop on the conversation at the next bed, which concerned a young lass telling her Gran, that next week was her riot training week. (No, not the Gran)

Is this a coincidence or a portent of events to come?

Clause 152 Dead

Reading in the Sunday Telegraph it looks like Jack Straw has been forced to amend clause 152 of the Coroner's and Justice bill. (Clause 152 for the unitiated would allow an individuals personal data to be shared amongst almost, all government departments.)

Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, is to shelve proposals which critics said would have led to patients' confidential medical records being passed to third parties.

A spokesman for Mr Straw said the "strength of feeling" against the plans had persuaded him to rethink.

Read the full article here.

Here it is

Maybe the power of protest is not dead.

Some things change for the better

I have been a customer with Orange for a number of years, almost since Mobile phones begun.

Up till recently, to get through to customer services entailed spending ages listening to crap music, and "we value your custom" messages every minute or so.

At the end of January I was pleasantly surprised to be contacted by a very respectful customer services rep and advised that I was overdue for a replacement phone. What really staggered me is he also advised that I was paying too much and would I like to change to a less expensive tarriff? Well you could blow me down with a feather, my gast was most definitely flabbered.

Was this a one off? No. this evening when opening my phone, (It's a slide phone), bummer, the display was corrupted. Anyway I phoned customer services not expecting stirling service again, only to find that within less than five minutes it had been arranged to send me a new phone by courier, to arrive by tommorrow morning.

I think it shows that with the recession, companies are having to value their customers at long last.
Well done Orange.

Oh dear

Today I'm entitled to a free bus pass.

Now I feel old.

They can't have this right?

I'm so fucked I think. Or am I?

If this prediction is correct in the link above, then I've missed nearly all, or the whole of the nulabour fiasco. Hurrah.

PS Don't click on the links on that site as they are from the usual "You are doomed if you don't change your lifestyle" TWATS