Category: Madness

What A Plonker


Judge Peter Bowers has given the victims of burglars across the country a huge slap in the face with his comments, made during the trial of Richard Rochford.

Judge Bowers told him

It takes a huge amount of courage as far as I can see for someone to burgle somebody’s house. I wouldn’t have the nerve.

How out of touch is this idiot.

Just ask anyone who has returned home or awoken to find their home has been the target of a burglar. Ask them about their feelings. I am sure they will tell you about violation and desecration of their homes. I am pretty sure you will not find anyone to praise the courage of the burglar.

The judge’s job is to oversee and administer the law, to ensure that justice is done. What the victims of crime want is to see that justice is done.

Praising the criminals for their courage does not show justice at work.

Here is what the victims and their families think of Rochford and Judge Bowers

Rochford stole a wallet containing £500 of life savings when he raided the home of retired shipyard worker John Hopper, 73, and wife Vera, 71.

Daughter Sharon Hopper, 40, said: ‘I can’t believe what the judge said. What really took courage was my parents having to continue living in their house after he had invaded their privacy.

Rochford ransacked the home of Mark Clayton, 47, an Army veteran who served in Afghanistan and Bosnia. Mr Clayton said the judge made a ‘grave misjudgment’. He added: ‘Picking dead bodies up after they’ve been blown up, to go into that takes courage. Walking into someone’s house on an opportunistic whim and basically devastating someone’s life by taking things that man has worked so hard for all his life, and taking it away without a thought, isn’t courage.’

Judge Bowers has made contradictory statements when passing down sentence on other burglars.
In May, he criticised sentencing guidelines that let first-time burglars escape with a ‘slap across the wrist’.

But weeks later, he allowed a man with almost 80 crimes on his record to walk free for a burglary committed four days after his release from prison, telling the court: ‘I must be getting soft in my old age.’

I think he, Judge Bowers, is getting soft in his old age. He has been a judge for over twenty years and I think it is time for him, at the age of 67, to stand down.
He has lost his sense of perspective and he is not serving the British public as they should be served.

Rioters Are Giving Terrorists A Bad Name


So now the violence that started at the weekend is spreading out from London to other cities of the UK. Bristol, Birmingham and Liverpool are also experiencing violence and looting .

ANARCHY !!

There is no other word for it. The total break down of public order. The thieves and thugs are out on the streets pillaging the lawful businesses of their own communities. Trashing property that they can’t steal.

All this from the shooting of one man…. I don’t think so.

“We are getting our taxes back.”

That’s what one looter in Clapham Junction told Sky’s Mark Stone, who was filming while confronting people raiding a Curry’s Digital. The local branch of Waterstone’s had not been looted, he noted.

So how exactly does that work ?

Who does he think is going to pay for cleaning up the aftermath of all the burning and destruction. Who is going to have to pay more for goods as businesses raise prices to cover their increased insurance premiums and the bank loans they will have to take out to pay for replacement and restocking ?

The activities of these criminals is going to hurt us all.

At least when a terrorist sets of a bomb they do so with a cause in mind. They don’t set about stealing property from their own communities

The only cause these thugs have is  Numero Uno !!! They steal to line their own pockets with cash or to furnish their homes with property they couldn’t or wouldn’t buy.

There have also been reports of children as young as 10 joining in the looting. Where the hell do the parents think their kids are ? Or are their parents out on the streets with them…………setting a fine example ?

Rioters Are Giving Terrorists A Bad Name

End the Fisheries Discard Disgrace


Subject:  End the Fisheries Discard Disgrace.

Dear Rt Hon David Willetts MP,

As one of your constituents, I am writing to ask you to sign Early Day Motion 1123: Fish Fight campaign, which calls on the new government to eliminate discards from our fisheries.

Discarding is an environmentally and economically damaging practice: up to half of the fish trawled from the North Sea are thrown back dead or dying because of the current quota system imposed by the EU’s disastrous Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) which is due for reform.

I am supporting the Fish Fight campaign because I am deeply concerned about this senseless waste of food and I want this shameful practice to end. The campaign is backed by the fishing industry, environmental groups (including environmental law organisation ClientEarth and the Marine Conservation Society among others), and fast-growing numbers of the general public.

Now it needs all-party government support.

As my representative to parliament, I urge you to add your signature to this Early Day Motion, to show the UK has a united ask for the CFP: end discards.

For your convenience, the text of the Early Day Motion is reproduced below this letter. More information on the campaign can be found at the Fish Fight website.

Thank you for your support,

Yours sincerely

Havant Constituent

Hughs Fish Fight Letter


To Commissioner Damanaki, Members of the European Parliament and all member state governments, 

I have seen images of dead and dying fish discarded in European waters.

I understand that the current Common Fisheries Policy leads to discarding on a vast scale; for example, half of all fish caught in the North Sea are being discarded because of the current quota system imposed by the CFP.

I want this senseless waste of food to end. I want you to use your influence to  stop this unacceptable  and shameful practice.

I am supporting the Fish Fight campaign to help bring about this vital change in our seas.

http://www.fishfight.net/letter/

Brian True-May – The 223rd Midsomer Murder


What do the folk at All3Media and the ITV think they are doing ?  Trying to appear to be PC when all they have really done is make total arses of themselves

Midsomer Murders is a show which has been airing since 1997 with over 80 episodes under its belt. It works to a formula and represents a side of Britain that has all but disappeared. The formula obviously works.

Brian True-May was expressing the view that changing that formula would change the character of the show. What had been suggested to him during an interview was tantamount to that the  characters in Coronation Street should speak with plumbs in their mouths, should all sound like they were educated at Eton.  Did anyone suggest that Last of the Summer Wine be changed to reflect a more balanced ethnic mix, of course not.

I think the idiots at All3Media and the ITV  have blundered and they should fess up and withdraw their comments and reinstate Mr True-May.

Midsomer Murders race row: Fans defend show as co-star suggests ‘black gardener’ | Mail Online.

No Wonder He Has A Bad Back !!!


Described in one newspaper report as “Britain’s most feckless father…” Keith Macdonald is about to become father to his 11th child. He already has eight children by eight different women and apparently three more will be born this year.

Macdonald is claiming £68.95 per week in disability benefits because he has a bad back.

I wonder why ???

Another Reason To Abandon The EU


So this is what the faceless bureaucrats have been up to. The European Commission has just ruled that anything calling itself a Cornish pasty will have to come from Cornwall. Telling us not only where a Cornish Pasty can be made but also what can be in it and on which side the crust should be.  Total waste of time and money.

Is this what we pay them to do ? i.e. sit in Brussels, or wherever it is they hide, generating pointless rules and regulations.

This is a joke.

These are presumably the same time wasters that are telling us that cucumber can’t be curved, that our chocolate can’t be called chocolate and that our sausages can’t be called sausages.

Surely, the consumer is king in this situation. If we like it we’ll eat it. If we don’t like it……!!!

Personally I love pasties when they are made properly and for the record, My Mum made the best ever pasty and she was Sussex born and bred.  So I couldn’t give a stuff where they are made so long as they taste good.

Cornish pasty given EU protected status – Telegraph.

Another Benefit Farce


Yet again our benefits system is failing the honest British tax payer.
I have just read about a woman who is pregnant with her 17th child.
That’s right17th
And who is paying for all these kids ? You and me, that’s who.
This leech on society is pulling in the equivalent of £42k.
Why is this allowed to happen ?
Who monitors and regulates the claims ?
At the very least this fat cat should have been spayed.

Shame on Tescos and Shame On The Police


Woman took thrown out Tesco food handcuffed and arrested.

Shame on Tescos if they reported this lady for taking food that they had thrown away.

Shame on the Police and the Crown Prosecution Service if they pursue this through the courts.

Woman took thrown out Tesco food handcuffed and arrested | Mail Online.

RIP Nimrod


Here we go again.

The British Government, hell bent on ripping the UKs defence forces apart.

They have now scrapped the latest Nimrod variant. This high tech plane would have been the most advanced of its type. It has now been dispatched to join our carriers and of course ther Harrier.

Soon we will be seen as a 3rd rate force. We will be totally dependent on other nations for our defence. We will be totally impotent especially should we need to deploy forces the other side of the world.

Time to don the black arm bands Englands military heritage.