ACPO letter to Chief constables and Commissioners : Officers should be reminded that it is not an offence for a member of the public or journalist to take photographs of a public building and use of cameras by the public does not ordinarily permit use of stop and...
You just couldn’t make it up.
The BBC brings news that Greater Manchester police have classified six separate snowball throwing incidents in the same category as murder and rape : The Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police has criticised some of his officers for recording snowball throwing...
Pictorial Interlude
Taken by Wasp at Speakers Corner during a visit to London :
New Labours Record
Reproduced in full from Old Holborn : Just to remind us what 13 years of power can do (cut out and keep edition): Ballot Boxes are interfered with Voting registers go missing The Police can kill innocent people and get away with it The state can kill people and get...
Thought for the week.
A little something our communist leaders may wish to consider : From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position...
HMRC Wallet Vampires Update
Following on from my earlier post about the HMRC being thoroughly useless, I managed to get through to their helpline today. I was actually amazed that I was speaking to a human sounding human (albeit sounding tediously bored stiff) as opposed to a mouthbreathing...
Wrong wrong wrong
Call me what you like, but I firmly believe that a country should ensure the health and wellbeing of its own people before looking to spend money on others. In the UK where we have elderly people dying from cold in their own homes because they cannot afford the fuel...
HM Revenue and Customs – Utter Shambles
It would seem that HMRC are in a state of utter shambles with their new computer system. A letter arrived at the nest today informing me of my tax code for 2010-11. I was informed that my tax free amount had been reduced by £3 in order to collect an underpayment of 60...
What were they expecting
Over at the BBC we have some news about the governments free laptop giveaway that most people except our communist leaders have already thought about : A £300m government scheme to give free laptops to poor children is open to abuse, a Conservative MP has warned. Mark...
UK political leaders.
Tygerland has an interesting post (HT to the Devil) suggesting that, as the main political parties are mostly identical, people should just choose a party which best represents their views on a single issue. The real reason I have snagged a piece of the article for...