Category: News

It doesn’t seem that long ago when this brainless idiot made the headlines for her stupid remarks.

Lets see if she gets her just deserts or will the judiciary let her off with a slapped wrist because she has said sorry.

There are too many people out there that think its OK to verbally abuse our police and this was doubly bad given the circumstances.

I previously said she should do some form of community service. Lets hope the courts think so too.

BBC News – Woman admits Moat victim David Rathband ‘bang bang’ remark.

The airwaves were a sadder place when DLT left the BBC. His shows were always a delight so I am not surprised that Suu Kyi regarded his World Service shows something of a lifeline.

I don’t think the BBC really knew what they were losing when he resigned in 1993. And now that he is receiving such an endorsement all I can say to the BBC is

“quack quack oops”

DLT, the Hairy Cornflake, we miss you.

BBC News – Suu Kyi reveals DJ Dave Lee Travis ‘lifeline’.

When is our government going to wake up ?

For many months now senior figures have been telling the government that they have gotten their strategy wrong for the Royal Navy.

Now Air Chief Marshal Sir Simon Bryant, the RAF’s second-in-command is singing to the same tune but the lyrics are about the RAF.

The swingeing cuts that are being applied across the country are seemingly actioned without any sense of reality. We are at the point where as a nation we are having to add our support to police the world and are committing resources that we no longer have.

As a nation we are exposed.

The Air Chief Marshall warned MPs back in may that many areas of the RAF were “running hot”. This is a term that should be applied to all of our armed forces.

For the last couple of years we have heard about equipment shortages and equipment performance shortfalls for the army. We now have a navy with no aircraft carriers yet we are involved in actions that would normally have been centered around a carrier fleet. And to cap it off we have these comments from Sir Simon Bryant.

Its time to wake up and smell the coffee Mr Cameron. We have seen that you can stop and rethink your strategies. Some like to call these direction changes “U-Turns”. It doesn’t matter what they are called. It’s a brave man who can admit when a strategy is wrong and then take action to correct it.

This is one of those times. We need you to act now and sort out our armed forces strategy.

And if you are looking for the extra money I suggest you take a good look at the folks in the NHS that are happily spending our money – £50.00 for a £2.00 pack of pasta !!!

BBC News – RAF stretched by Libya, says second-in-command.

Is humanity the cruelest animal on the planet ? I think we must be. I don’t think any other animal, with perhaps the exception of the chimpanzee, takes pleasure in their peers distress.

After watching Panorama’s Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed on BBC1 last night, I was left with nothing but a feeling of total disgust. Specifically for the individuals that were caught on film abusing the patients at this establishment but also for the human race.

No other animal on earth resorts to systematic bullying and abuse in the way that mankind does. Certainly what has occurred in Winterbourne View is extreme bullying and abuse and in some instance could be construed as torture. During the program a parallel was drawn between the treatment meted out at Winterbourne View and that which was commonly practiced in asylums during the 60’s.

These patients and their families have been totally let down by the individuals responsible for patient care, let down by the management of Winterbourne View and let down by the Care Quality Commission who were contacted more than once by a former senior nurse.

Although there are four employees in custody, my view is that there are more employees that are culpable and should be punished for their inaction which pretty much construes their tacit approval of the actions of the others.

It’s at time like this that I wished our judiciary were able to use “an eye for an eye” as the basis for sentencing. Then perhaps the perpetrators could get a taste of their own medicine. The ritualistic eye poking, the face slapping, the fully clothed cold showers and being detained outside in wet clothes in temperatures slightly above freezing or being pinned to the floor under a chair while your “carer” sits on the chair with a foot on your hand.

It beggars belief.

BBC News – Four arrests after patient abuse caught on film.

Lord Taylor of Warwick has lied under oath in order to cover up fraudulent claims of more than £11,000 in taxpayers money. Yet he gets to retain his position in the House of Lords even though he is just beginning a 12 month stint in jail. How does that work ?

I thought “Lords” were supposed to be honorable and clearly Taylor is not. His dishonesty should be enough to have him stripped of his peerage and therefore booted out of the House.

Taylor now joins an exclusive club for rodents, he joins a select group of MPS that have received jail sentences for fiddling tax payers money. He is member number five.

What amazes me is how so many others have escaped going to court and joining this less than illustrious group. Worse still is how few of them think that they were doing anything wrong.

Peer jailed for expenses fraud – Crime, UK – The Independent.