At last the BBC is being forced into the real world.
The BBC was facing revolt from thousands of staff today after taking an axe to its final-salary pension scheme.
Many staff will be worse off in retirement under the proposals as the corporation looks to counteract a £2 billion deficit in its pension fund.
Especially if it could affect this insufferable Twat.
But then I expect he's safe.
From the comments:
"Preston thinks he is the Queen Mother of broadcasting!"
And I will use the advice printed on the packet below.
Says it all.
Picture nicked from....... Wait for it.
Smoking at a crossroads. Deborah Arnott Chief Executive ASH
I'll take her advice. Thanks Debs. You old crone sweety.
This Blog is a smoking zone.
If you're an anti-smoker. Then stop reading now.
H/T to Fuel injected Moose for the logo.
The Message still doesn't seem to be getting through to the plod that:
It is not illegal to take photographs in a public place.
Authoritarian cunts. How can they expect us to abide by the law when they make it up as they go along.
UPDATE:
The usual weasel words.
The Metropolitan police has issued a statement to the British Journal of Photography - a spokeswoman said:
"It is clearly not the intention of the MPS to prevent people from taking photographs, although, as the public would expect, officers will remain vigilant, particularly in crowded public places. Any allegations or complaints about police treatment of photographers are taken very seriously by the MPS."
She adds: "Anyone who is unhappy with the actions of individual police officers can make a formal complaint, which will be thoroughly investigated. Although at this time we have not received a complaint about this incident and no allegations of crime have been made, we will investigate the circumstances. Our officers do receive guidance around the issue of photography through briefings and internal communications and we continue to drive this work forward.
I read and listened to the MSM about the latest wheeze to get people in jobs by actually looking for work where there is actually work with some interest.
I was brought up with the philosophy that you find the work. The work doesn't find you. I can see how those raised in the North of the country had it easy, in the fact that most of the major manufacturing industries were based there.
In the south it was always different. We didn't have huge manufacturing industries (I'm talking about south of the Watford gap here), recruiting in the thousands, just small companies trying to grow.
To get to the point. My family have always travelled a fair distance to work. No nipping in to the factory five minutes down the road.
My wife commuted into the smoke for many years before we started a family. She usually left the house before 0800 and returned not before 1900.
The Eldest daughter has moved to London in order to better her self. (An uphill struggle given London property prices.
The second daughter has to commute to work via the M25. Not for the faint hearted in the Rush hour
The son has moved to the North east in order to get a job in the degree that he obtained.
Me. I just travelled the world for 43 years.
I'm now expected to feed the second daughter's cats over the weekend. Bloody scrounging animals. But we love the little devils. I'm not sure why?
From their website:
Let's take the various sections and break it down.
Education. I thought that would be handled by the department of education.
Crime and Criminal Justice. What's the Home office doing then?
Employment, skills and training. I'm pretty sure we have a ministry for that.
Income and benefits. Yep. A ministry as well.
Family Life, relationships and children. Keep your noses out of our lives. What I do in my house has fuck all to do with your snooping.
Health and Nutrition. I'm sure we had a health service for that. I'm pretty sure I pay a lot of tax for that department.
Transport and the Environment. I most certainly pay through the nose via VED and taxes on flying.
Social Inclusion. A fuzzy left wing phrase that says I have to pay more tax to house Shaz and her 8 kids in the style they think they are entitled. (46 inch plazma in every room).
Social and political attitudes. None of your business.
This is an outfit that is a registered charity. But look where the income comes from.
What I'm trying to get across is, if all those Ministries, with all their vast staff, can't do their own research, then they deserve a culling. FFS £41 million.
As they say. Tell a lie enough times, and people will believe it's the truth.
I was just trawling through their site and found this recent press release:
A study measuring the impact of England’s smokefree law on hospital admissions for heart attacks has shown that the legislation resulted in 1200 fewer emergency admissions to hospital in the 12 months following the implementation of the 2007 law. [1] This is the latest of a number of studies measuring the short-term health benefits of smokefree laws [2] and the first to evaluate the impact on heart attacks in England.
This has been trotted out on various occasions since the smoking ban came into force.
The fact is that there has been no significant change since the ban in 2007. The downward trend was already well established. Most likely for a multitude of reasons.
The simplest way of showing this is by the use of the actual data in the study:
Emergency AMI admissions in English hospitals
2002/03: 61,498
2003/04: 60,680 (a fall of 1.33%)
2004/05: 58,803 (a fall of 3.1%)
2005/06: 55,752 (a fall of 5.19%)
2006/07: 53,964 (a fall of 3.21%)
2007/08: 51,664 (a fall of 4.26%)
To me the figures speak for themselves. I think ASH should stick their figures up their pipe (I.e. the fundamental orifice in their backside) and smoke them.
