Coming to your high street soon

It'll never happen will it?

Dave is going to be upset about this.

Daniel Hannan has made another superb speech to the Army and Navy club in the USA. No doubt he willed be howled down over here.
Will The BBC show it? I think not.








Not an autocue in sight.

H/T to Theo

The flow of freedom is reversed

A good article over in the Times by Adam LeBor where he considers that the Eastern Bloc countries are now freer than the UK .

The birthplace of political liberties, the home of the Magna Carta, is now one of the most intrusive democracies in the world. Labour governments have introduced surveillance and monitoring systems of which the communists could only dream.

An interesting fact is that most of the commentators on the article in the Times agree with him.

Read it here.

Not my type of job

You know you shouldn't play with electricity but..................




H/T to Theo

More Police stupidity

Following on from my last post, you can see in this article, why I don't want the Police to have anymore power than they have already got.

Mr Guard, who makes documentaries about crime and the homeless, was filming squatters entering a disused building through an open window at 10pm on August 1.

A security sensor inside detected the movement and the alarm was triggered.

The squatters fled but Mr Guard, a former electrician, decided to stay behind and turn off the alarm to save neighbouring families from the noise.

To do so he had to turn on the electricity in the building for a few seconds, to give him light, and then turn it off.

Nine police then arrived in response to the alarm. When Mr Guard told them what he had done, he was arrested and held in a cell for six hours before being charged.

Film maker is taken to court for stealing 0.003p - at a cost of over £5,000 to the taxpayer

It beggars belief. Especially as they used 9 plods to arrest him.

If you're a motorist, you're fair game.

Police cannot be trusted to hand out summary justice and will act as “judge and jury” if given powers to issue more on-the-spot fines, magistrates have warned.

Read here

More and more offences are being dealt with by these iniquitous on-the spot fines.

Before the Labour government came to power I seem to remember that here was a premise in law, that " You were innocent until proved guilty". Oh how it's changed. Even if you contest the charge, and are proven innocent, costs can be awarded against you, and are more than the fine in the first place. Justice, (or lack of it), seems a one way street now.

“This is a proposal that places the convenience of the police above what is right in principle, may coerce innocent drivers into accepting a fixed penalty, and is certain generally to downgrade careless driving in terms of offence seriousness.”

The trouble with this one is that those who have committed a serious motoring offence will be treated the same in law, as one who has just made a minor error of judgement. Magistrate's courts are there to assess the seriousness of the offence and punish accordingly.

Of course here is the crunch.

However, Mick Giannasi, Gwent Chief Constable who is in charge of roads policing for the Association of Chief Police Officers, said: “By dealing with offences in this way, it can result in a reduction in the amount of time that police officers spend completing paperwork and attending court, while also reducing the burden on the courts and the taxpayer.”

They don't care about justice, just crime reduction figures, targets, and costs.

That's why I have no faith in the Police.

Smoking and mirrors

I've just read an interesting document over at the Dark Market site.

It would appear that ASH and the DoH have been slightly economical with the truth when it comes to the cost of under the counter sales of Tobacco products.

This document was obtained under the FOI act. Many thanks to Christopher Snowden, it's an interesting read.

It would seem That ASH and DoH will go to any lengths to continue their campaign of sheer spite and bigotry.

Read it here.

They'll do anything to continue the AGW myth

In the Mail on Line there is an article that is now using the excuse that our descendants are the original cause of global warming/climate change by resorting to slash and burn to increase crop yields.

Farmers who cleared huge swathes of forests to grow crops thousands of years ago could have increased carbon dioxide levels enough to change the climate, researchers claimed today

My theory differs to theirs in that it is probably the herds of flying pigs farting that has caused it.

There was far less arable land in those days as the population was far smaller. Kent, for instance, was mainly forest until the Napoleonic wars. Why didn't the carbon dioxide levels really not leap up in the 18th and 19th century? Slash and burn was far more prevalent then.

They never give up do they?

Now we're talking

It seems that Dan Hannan's speech may at last have had an effect that the Twitter, My space, etc, Aficionados had not foreseen. With so much comment being aired in the MSM about how furious the population was over the speech about the NHS, it has again got the public engaging with a subject that no-one has dared to talk about.

Today's Telegraph carries an article by Dan Hannan, stating why he said these things, and by the comments pouring in, people are beginning to wake up to the fact that maybe the NHS is not the sacred cow that is made out to be.

Those politicians who have jumped onto the bandwagon to condemn the broadcast may actually have woken up the sleeping public at long last.

Read it here

Dan Hannan - That broadcast.

Having just seen that interview on U tube, the conservatives and the MSM have blown the part about the NHS out of all proportion. He was just re-iterating what most of us who have had loved ones admitted to Hospital, already know. It's not working. Just because something has been around for 60 years, doesn't mean that it works well.





The BBC is another case in point. They might look to their own record over the last few years.
They should be another Monolith that should be up for intense scrutiny