The ECHR Is No Longer Fit For Purpose !!!


Why can’t woman on benefits, owing £3,500 rent be evicted !!!

Because her eviction could be contravening the European Convention on Human Rights (EHCR).

Well I bloody well want to know how that works.

I used to be housed by the local council. I had an agreement which required that I pay the rent. If I didn’t pay the rent I would have broken that agreement. And because I broke that agreement I would have been evicted.

Well I have moved on from there, I am not on benefits and work for my salary, out of which I have to pay my mortgage.  What I do know is that should I fail to pay that mortgage for any prolonged period of time the bank would seek my eviction from the property and not a court in this land would stand up for me on the basis of the ECHR.

What I also know is that my human rights are being trampled daily under the guise of the ECHR.

Not only am I paying for my home but I am paying for this womans home and thousand like her.

I am sick to the back teeth of this country funding all the dead beats and scroungers via all kinds of benefits.

There is endless talk of fixing the benefits culture in this country but I tell you it isn’t happening fast enough. It isn’t being helped by the legal “experts” who misuse the ECHR so often that its becoming valueless. The ECHR is no longer fit for purpose.

I believe that we as a country should resign our membership or what ever we have to do to prevent ourselves from being hog-tied by this useless piece of legislation.

Assange To Be Extradited – At Last


After so much time and public money has been wasted on this guy. Finally a judge steps up to the mark and says he should be extradited.

Of course he should.

Do we or do we not have friendly relations with the Sweden.

Assange and his lawyers have wriggled and squirmed, even claiming that good old catch-all, Breach of his Human Rights. They also claimed that the crime of which he is accused  in Sweden would not be considered a crime in this country.

Let him fight his case in the Swedish courts, not in ours and not in the newspapers.

Where’s The Ferry For The Brits ?


The Yanks have hired a ferry to get their people out of Libya while the Clameron Twins dither.  Just like a scene from  Yes Prime Minister, Cameron is off on a jolly round the middle east and Cleggy says he “forgot” he was running the country during his absence.

Where is the ferry to get our people out ? In fact where is there any sign that our government is doing anything. Did the powers that be not see that guy on the news last night saying that he had basically been told by an embassy official that it was up to him to get himself out of Libya

This is just the scenario when you expect your government to step up to the mark.

Send Him Home


Why is there any delay in deporting this person ?

He has admitted that he lied and that his only intention was to earn money to send back to his family. He did not need asylum. The fact that he lied to his friends, the UK Border Agency, MP Jonathan Edwards and just about everyone else just reinforces the Border Agencies decision as being the correct one.

The only assistance this guy needs is to get him on a plane back home.

BBC News – Deportation battle student Ahmer Rana’s identity lies.

Bahrain GP Cancelled


To say that I am disappointed that the Bahrain F1 GP has been cancelled would be a bit of an understatement.

It’s OK for all you football fans, the season never really ends any more. There is football available on the TV 365 days a year. OK so some of it isn’t British football but it is there for you to watch.

For F1 fans there is nothing from the end of one season to the next.

And now, just when the F1 juices have started to flow with the Bahrain race due to run on the 13th March, we are faced with a further two-week delay before the season truly starts.

And before the dissenting voices start beating me up and telling me that human life takes precedence over sport.

I do truly, totally agree. I wish the Bahrain people well and hope that there is no more bloodshed or injuries.

But as a F1 fan it is my right to feel disappointed.

Should We Applaud U Turn ?


So the government has done an about-face on the sale of our nations forests.

Should we applaud them for having the strength to reverse their decision in the face of public out cry. Or should we perhaps be questioning the sanity of a government that actually thought that it had the right to sell off the nations property. The forests don’t belong to the government, they belong to the nation. The government is just the custodian and the Forestry Commission their  management team.

This government is in slash and burn mode as they try to fix the economic problems that the labour government bequeathed to us all. I think we need to watch them closely so that they don’t jettison any other national treasures while the red mist is obscuring their common sense.

View From The Conservatory


What a cracking day it is today.

As I type this I am grooving to B.B. Kings “The Thrill Is Gone”. The sun is shining, not a cloud in the sky which is currently a watery blue.

There are Blue Tits, Great Tits, a pair of Jenny Wrens, a Robin and a pair of Blackbirds investigating the garden all being observed by a Grey Squirrel sat on a fence post.

The only minor negative is that, in my normal working position, the sun has reached a position such that it is shining directly in my face and I can’t see the monitor screen. So I have had to rearrange the furniture.

Having done that I now find that I am on a slight cant due to the fact that my conservatory has broken its back and the floor is uneven due to some movement of the clay soil base. My table is bridging either side of the break and the text that I am typing goes uphill from left to right.

But, hey, this is only a temporary situation. When the weather warms up I will move back to my usual location in the darkness which is the garage.

I might have to rethink the last. There is no view of the outside word in there.

Today Is The Day


My new car is delivered.

I must be the least enthusiastic car buyer on the planet. I ordered the car back in October of last year after an “exhaustive” search, trekking around the various dealerships.

I haven’t test driven any cars but I did sit in quite a few. After all my criteria for determining if a car is going to be suitable are very simple. Most cars offered by the major manufacturer’s seem to have similar specs. They have to meet the same international standards for safety etc. and since I was looking at a family car then the handling and so forth was going to be fairly similar across all makes. I know  there will be differences but I wasn’t looking at buying a sports car and won’t be driving any car to its extremes. Finally I was also limited by what I could afford so there was one last criteria that had to be fulfilled.

Would I fit in it ?

Being a tad on the large size, that is over six-foot tall and weighing in at around twenty stone I don’t like to feel crowded. Nor do I like to be touching the sides of the car during normal driving conditions.

In the end my choices seem to be limited to either a Skoda Octavia or the Renault Megane. The final selection was governed by the actual spec of the car and so I plumped for the Megane.

Friends and family have been asking me if I am getting excited and I have steadfastly maintained that I am not. It’s just a car. OK its a brand new car.

So I suppose, now the day is upon me I am, I admit, getting mildly curious.