Life Signs
October 23, 2009
Don’t you just love signs that say thou must not…?
Yeah, but what about this one then -
When government takes control of your life…
October 20, 2009
This is a good post HERE from the Angry Exile. It’s all very frightening, isn’t it?
Please read it and weep.
DAWN RAIDS BY ‘BIN POLICE’ ARE RUBBISH
July 27, 2009
Bin travellin’ round, so I’m late with this – but according to the Scottish Daily Express many Councils have recruited “Bin police”…snoopers whose job it is to look inside your dustbin or rubbish sack! On the 22nd July apparently one local authority spent £70,000 for two “dawn raids” in North Wiltshire to analyse and record the content of wheelie bins…bet they’re going to put the Council Tax up too!
Andy Conn, of Wiltshire Council, said: “It is very useful to see how much waste of whatever kind is being thrown away…” well, Andy, I’ve couriered a black rubbish sack from my kitchen for your perusal – free of any charge – you don’t even have to thank me!
You are being WATCHED! So be warned…
July 22, 2009
“The Shetland Islands Council and Corby Borough Council – among the smallest local authorities in the UK – have more CCTV cameras than the San Francisco Police Department.”
Ha ha ha ha, money feckin’ well spent, eh? Take a look at THIS and weep! The Shetland Isles? CCTV’s on every damn sheep! Ha ha ha ha…
Day in the life…
June 15, 2009
A group of us spent our Sunday in the joyful worship of Bacchus, with many bottles of Vino collapso consumed following a Chinese meal that was little short of excellent.
This morning, however, I didn’t attend the gym. Mainly because I felt a tad jaded – not hungover, you understand, no! I had this faint pulse behind the eyes…slightly annoying, but, if nothing else I suppose, serving to demonstrate my heart was still beating. Anyhow, it wasn’t conducive to spending an hour or so on crosstrainer, stepmachine and bike-that-goes-nowhere. Instead, I sat and contemplated the rows of empty wine bottles beside the kitchen bin.
All those bottles will be recycled…good for the environment…
Or is it?
Just think of all those trucks on the road pouring diesel fumes into the air we breathe, collecting all this crap for recycling. Then the equipment used for sorting it, diesel and electricity burning twenty-four, seven. Then the reprocessing…is this really more environmentally friendly?
Sir Paul McCartney wants everyone to go veggie for one day a week to help ease global warming. Not such a daft idea, perhaps. Did you know that the livestock on our farms is responsible for the release of more greenhouse gases than all our cars? If we could just stop the world’s livestock from farting, we’d have global warming licked!
The consensus yesterday appeared to be that recycling was very costly. Probably more damaging to the environment in the short term…Ultimately, local authorities would charge more on the “rates” for rubbish collection…another form of taxation! – this to cover the huge costs of collection and recycling!
Unfortunately, I can’t help but think it is all too little, too late…
Gordon’s signature tune
June 4, 2009
Just a little light relief…the local polling stations are very quiet, which is sad. Ultimately we get the administrations we vote for…or, if you prefer, we get the administrations we deserve, by not voting!
If the Lisbon treaty goes ahead the pound sterling will be gone within two years. Briton will be IN the Euro up to its sad, scrawny neck.
Just think on that and all it will mean!
Big Brother’s failure…
May 19, 2009
Oh, well, we spend £500 plus million on CCTVs to fight rising crime, and guess what? They don’t work…well, they work, but recent research shows they don’t appreciably prevent serious crime. They’re only any good in carparks. There’s some evidence they’ve helped reduce the number of thefts from cars…Well, that’s something I s’pose?
Yet another wonderful project from Nulabour and Jacqui Smith, who was asked by the Lords last January to take a long hard look at CCTV’s and effects on crime.
So what’s Nulabour going to do about it? Well, very little I should think. As long as we continue to pay for the equipment and the bods to watch the screens, why should they worry?
It’s Monday and glancing wistfully at the Daily Mail, I’m reminded of the Hitler Youth…not that I was ever a member (unlike the Pope), but the strange similarity between the activities of the Hitler-Jugend, Bund deutscher Arbeiterjugend and the young “citizen snoopers” being recruited by some UK Town Halls is remarkable.
Obviously I’m not suggesting for one minute that the little dears once recruited undergo the same rigorous military training. No. The similarities are in the structure and philosophy – the Hitler Youth formed local cells within the community. They had weekly meetings at which they were kept up to date on current Nazi doctrines and incentives and in which they could report on “anti-social activity” within their apartment block, street, even their own home…
Daily Mail: “Town halls hire citizen snoopers as young as SEVEN to spy on neighbours and report wrongs.
Children as young as seven are being recruited by councils to act as ‘citizen snoopers’, the Daily Mail can reveal.
The ‘environment volunteers’ will report on litter louts, noisy neighbours – and even families putting their rubbish out on the wrong day.
There are currently almost 9,000 people signed up to the schemes. More are likely to be recruited in the coming months.
Controversially, some councils are running ‘junior’ schemes which are recruiting children.
After basic training, volunteers are expected to be the ‘eyes and the ears’ of the town hall.
They are given information packs about how to collect evidence, including tips about writing down numberplates, which could later be used in criminal prosecutions.”
Control is everything today in modern Britain, isn’t it?
Charnwood Borough Council, in Loughborough, has demanded tenents give one month’s notice before they die – or they’ll be charged a month’s rent!
“Grieving stepson Jim Seaton, of Ibstock, Leicestershire, was issued with one such bill 18 days after his stepdad, Raymond Smith, had died aged 80.
He said: “My stepfather passed away on March 1 of cancer. He was a good and honest man.
“But it was a shock when, after struggling with our grief, we then had to cope with being told he had to give one month’s notice on his council property.
“I asked the council, ‘How does a dead man give one month’s notice?’ But they told me, ‘Sorry rules are rules’.”
