I want to weep

He has fathered seven children by seven women in just seven years and abandoned each and every one. Dressed in a tracksuit, jobless 24-year-old Keith MacDonald is enough to put women off men for life.

Doesn't look like it to me. He's just about to marry the eighth.

The binman's son, who lives on £44 a week income support, has never paid a penny towards the upbringing of his children.

Nor does he see them. Apparently it is 'too much of a hassle'. But bride-to-be Clare Bryant, 20, is convinced he has changed and says they plan to have two children together.

Please can any government pass a law for compulsory sterilisation?

The couple have since moved in together in a two bedroom council house in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, and are applying for joint benefits of around £100 a week - leaving the taxpayer to pick up the £60,000 bill for his seven children.

The sad fact of the matter is that they seem to see nothing wrong with their lifestyle. I'm afraid we are going to be stuck with this attitude for a long time until someone takes the bull by the horns and says enough is enough.


You can read the rest in the Mail. I can't go on I'm losing the will to live.

Even lighter

Aussies thrashed

On a lighter note

I see we're thrashing the Aussies.

133-8 at tea, in 45 0vers.

I may be sometime.

Just changing service provider. Should be simple I thought. Oh No!

The ISP doesn't recognise Windows 7.

Grrrrrrh.

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.