Day: July 19, 2011

The original headline mentioned vandals. I think they are morons. To call them vandals is to give the 5th century tribesmen a bad name.

For many years now I have struggled to understand what sort of mentality you have to have to continually damage property, to prevent other people enjoying something such as the bridge in the Queens Inclosure that was recently burnt. The damage this time means that the bridge will have to be replaced.

I think moron is the correct term to use. The idiots that have carried out this damage obviously don’t have two brain cells to rub together.

Vandals set fire to bridge in latest attack on Waterlooville woodland – East Hampshire – The News.

The QA Hospital, Portsmouth, has a helipad that is used when someone is in need of emergency medical treatment. One might think this a good thing. Not so, say some fo the folks that live on the hill adjacent to the hospital.

The vocal minorities are complaining that the QA is planning to make the helipad available 24hrs a day. The poor disturbed souls say that the low flying helicopters scare their children and block out the sound of their televisions.

Presumably they can also hear the ambulance sirens as they arrive to deliver patients to the A & E department. Would they like the ambulances to stay away at night-time ?

Come on folks let’s get a sense of perspective. The helicopters probably only turn up once or twice a day at most and the noise they create as they pass overhead must last for no more that a couple of minutes each time.

And lets ask the obvious question. What would you prefer if you or a relative required emergency treatment following a car accident ? Let the helicopters land at QA or delay them access to that treatment by making them travel by road or perhaps flying them to some other hospital further away ?

So the EDL (English Defence League) decided to visit Portsmouth this weekend. Let us all hope that their wanderlust has been satisfied and they don’t bother to come back. We don’t need their sort and their beliefs being forced upon us. Where ever they go there is always hatred and violence at a cost to the peaceful law-abiding public. This time there were seven arrests so maybe Portsmouth got off lightly. Even so there were many police drafted in from other forces to bolster the local boys.Someone has to pay for that and it surely won’t be the EDL.

They call themselves the English Defence League. Who are they protecting ? It certainly isn’t me. When I see the news reports of their marches the only protection I feel I need is from them and their supporters.

So now that they have left Portsmouth I say Good Riddance To Bad Rubbish.