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So the opening program for the latest round of excruciating boredom was watched by 10.5 million viewers.

The question is why ?

I reckon it’s because there are 10.5 million tone-deaf sleep deprived people in this country and they put this program on so that they can be bored to sleep.  If you like music why would you watch this ?

I’ll grant you that there have been some good singers that have percolated through and have lasted for more than a couple of years. The rest have faded back into obscurity where they came from. Does anyone remember Steve Brookstein the winner of the first series and if you do remember his name do you know what his first single was ?

Don’t worry this isn’t a test and there are no prizes, it was a cover of Phil Collins  “Against All Odds”

My point is that this program has a single purpose and that is to make money for Simon Cowell and his cronies. It is possible that some real talent will be discovered en route but that is by the by. The winner of the show will also probably make a lot of money and, if they play the game, will have some kind of career.

The winner has the dubious honour of gaining a 1 million pound recording contract with Syco.  Guess who owns that ? Yup Simon Cowell. Oh by the way the X-Factor TV programs are also produced by Syco.

I’d say that Mr Cowell has things nicely sewn up.

BBC News – X Factor opener watched by 10.5m.

Many critics of the government are saying that the sentences, being handed out for those involved in the riots and associated looting and property damage, are too harsh.

Well, needless to say, I disagree.

This kind of response has been a long time coming. Was long, long overdue. Finally criminals can immediately experience the consequences of their actions. Why allow them to languish at home for months on end, able to go out and contemplate more mayhem. While we, the law-abiding public, wait months for them to appear in court only to be set free again with a wrist slap.

Lets now apply this to the anti-social herberts that infest our housing estates. Let them feel the swift and forceful application of punishment for ignoring the laws of this land. Let them be scooped up and locked away.

We have, over many years, allowed this countries morality to slip due in the main to the PC Brigade who have forced the introduction of the softly softly approach.

Parents must not slap their children. Teachers cannot administer corporal punishment. For goodness sake, my wife worked in an office block where the security guards were not allowed to touch an abusive client threatening violence, to escort him off site, unless he actually physically attacked a member of staff. All total madness.

Those do-gooders that have shouted out loud for the human-rights of the minority, the perpetrators of antisocial acts while forgetting about the human-rights of the majority, the victims of those anti-social acts.

I am hoping that the tough sentencing that is being applied now will become the norm for other anti-social offenders passing through our courts.

UK riots 2011: Child looters aged 11 and 12 let off with slap on the wrist | Mail Online.

Maybe, by law, these kids are too young to be prosecuted but they should be named and shamed and have their pictures published alongside their parents.

Personally I don’t believe that they are too young to be prosecuted and if necessary locked up. They are for the most part old enough to know right from wrong and they already think that they are untouchable.

Too many parents are saying that they can’t control their own kids. Can’t keep them at home and in bed at a reasonable hour. Recently on a TV news program one parent was saying that he isn’t allowed to lock up his own kids, isn’t allowed to hit them, was asking how he was supposed to control his kids when all their mates are out doing god knows what.

Well our PC society has tied his hands in the same way that we tied the hands of our police and our courts. Its time to come up with a new way of dealing with underage criminals.

Time to introduce a “SUCK IT AND SEE” option for parents and their kids. Lets let them spend a weekend in prison. Let them experience what prison life is about and see where their actions are taking them.

UK RIOTS 2011: Clamour grows to strip looters of benefits and council homes | Mail Online.

As the courts hand out tough sentences to those involved in the criminal activities of the last few days and nights, I have a request for the government and for the police.

Please don’t stop with the looters.

Move on to the anti social yobbos that, on a daily basis, make people’s lives a misery on the many housing estates around this country.

Apply the tough policing and the tough sentencing to the people that we have had to put up with for years.

Let the momentum that has been unleashed by recent events carry forward and lets use it to clean up our streets.

So said the Prime Minister.

I just hope that he has the resolve to see it through and to provide the police and the courts with the support they need to implement his words

A 15-year-old boy who was pictured trying to prise open shutters of a shop in Salford has been arrested after his mother handed him in to police.

Assistant Chief Constable Garry Shewan said police raided the properties following information from members of the public. He urged people to continue to give the force information.

He said the 15-year-old boy’s mother was “absolutely appalled, horrified and angry” when she saw the pictures of him trying to break into the shop.

“What she did is extremely admirable and I thank her for handing him into local officers as it must have been a hard thing to do,” he said.

This lady demonstrated the sort of moral fibre that is required throughout this country. She is setting an example that should be set to all our kids.

I say Well Done !!!

Sign this e-petition

Sign this petition to remove the rights to benefits for anyone convicted of their involvement in the riots and subsequent looting.

“British Gas has said it will end doorstep selling for three months, claiming the format is “outdated”.”

Now we just need the rest  of the utility companies to stop it too.

My experience has been that the folks that come knocking on my front door. tell out-and-out lies.

Sure they show their ID and introduce themselves as representing whichever company. They have a clip board with some sort of questionnaire on which they tick boxes or, in the case of one guy, continually tick the same box as he slowly wore his way through the paper.

Typically they imply that they represent your supplier. Whenever I point out that I get my gas or electric from another company they switch tack and state that they have been tasked with making sure that we are on the best rates implying that they have some kind of government mandate to look after my best interests.

It’s at that point that I begin to close the door in their faces and send them on their way.

To my way of thinking their presence on my doorstep is as bad as cold calling on the telephone.

They were uninvited. They have disrupted my day. They have lied to me.

So I say Hooray that they have stopped this selling method along with Scottish and Southern Energy .

Now all we need is NPower, EDF and their kin to pack it in too.