A council allegedly refused to clean up a dustbin that fell into a four inch stream because no-one “qualified” to wear Wellington boots was available.
An official from Chichester District Council also allegedly said that ropes and harnesses would be needed to prevent workers from being washed away.
It comes less than a week after the council was criticised for issuing guidance to avoid using the phrase the “man on the street” on the grounds that it is “inherently sexist”.
You can read the rest of this madness in the Telegraph.
If you believe this kind of crap is going to get any better under a Conservative government, think on. This IS a Tory run council.
Following the elections held on 3 May 2007 the political make up of the Council is now 34 Conservative Members, 11 Liberal Democrat Members and 3 Independents.
But, There IS another way!
The
Libertarian
Party will make local authorities properly deliver the services they are obliged to, remove the current 'jobsworth' culture, cancel diversity training, dismantle the Health & Safety Executive in its current form, and make individuals within local authorities responsible where they fail the public. It really is time to get some common sense back into the Local Authorities and the Services that they deliver.
A council allegedly refused to clean up a dustbin that fell into a four inch stream because no-one “qualified” to wear Wellington boots was available.
An official from Chichester District Council also allegedly said that ropes and harnesses would be needed to prevent workers from being washed away.
It comes less than a week after the council was criticised for issuing guidance to avoid using the phrase the “man on the street” on the grounds that it is “inherently sexist”.
You can read the rest of this madness in the Telegraph.
If you believe this kind of crap is going to get any better under a Conservative government, think on. This IS a Tory run council.
Following the elections held on 3 May 2007 the political make up of the Council is now 34 Conservative Members, 11 Liberal Democrat Members and 3 Independents.
But, There IS another way!
The
Libertarian
Party will make local authorities properly deliver the services they are obliged to, remove the current 'jobsworth' culture, cancel diversity training, dismantle the Health & Safety Executive in its current form, and make individuals within local authorities responsible where they fail the public. It really is time to get some common sense back into the Local Authorities and the Services that they deliver.
Interesting piece over at the Torygraph from
Bruno Waterfield.
Turns out that a
secret report commissioned by the EU has dictated that blogging is (wait for
it)….
AN ANTI ESTABLISHMENT ACTIVITY
Yes, I laughed out
loud as well.
It also mourns the “shift away from
the state news radio and TV stations” – apparently “this means the
quality of debate has suffered”.
But the strongest language and darkest fears are reserved for the realm of the
internet with its message boards, blogs and independence.This realm is all the
more dangerous in EU eyes, as we
have seen before, because it
communicates to many people, it is comparatively unregulated, it is
comparatively independent of state or private media monopoly, and it is easy
for people to do themselves.
“Blogging is also seen as an anti-establishment activity. Few Yes
campaigners came out with forceful counter arguments or were inspired to do so.
Because of the many different sources of No campaigners on the internet,
classic rebuttals is [sic] made impossible,” says the report – which makes
no recommendations.”Blog activity remains overwhelmingly negative.”
The EU blog wars have
begun. The Commission and Brussels
institutions know it. The next battle between them and us, establishment and
anti-establishment, official and unofficial is only a matter of time. What are
they going to do about it? Is the EU ready? Are you ready?
Read
the full report here and the Telegraph article here
So why do you think that ?
Telling people the truth about the EU is just so wrong, telling people what
they are entitled to know about the establishment is seen by the establishment
as anti.
Well many people forget that over 80% of our law is now written in Brussels.
That Brown or any other PM (looks like Cameroon
soon), are working with their hands tied behind their backs, and find it
impossible to do anything in our own national interest. Or are already bought
and paid for to act
in the EU's interest rather than ours.
About the best
commentary I've found this morning on Brown's attempted intervention in the
housing market is from Simon Jenkins in the
Grauniad. Simon repeats the
call for the government to scrap HIPs that appears elsewhere:
At the same time
Gordon Brown should have cleared some of the bureaucratic clutter that now
infests house purchase. Chief is the home improvement pack, a costly and
redundant gimmick from a former housing minister, Yvette Cooper (now at the
Treasury) eager to meddle. It has merely imposed another transaction tax on
house purchase.
The fact that the
energy performance certificate at the heart of the HIP is an EU and not a
government requirement – blogged by EU
Referendum on 1/9 – tends
not to get a mention in the press.
The cost of HIPS though is a drop in
the ocean compared with the total costs of EU membership; an analysis by Civitas in 2004 suggested a likely net cost of £40bn a year
to the UK economy.
The costs of domestic red tape,
including the 'gold plating' of EU directives, has been an increasing burden on
business during Labour's tenure. Where two or three civil servants are gathered
together, the first thing they do is to develop a form for someone to fill in.
Regulatory costs will only be trimmed with a freeze on all non-critical public
sector recruitment.
The OECD's highlighting of the UK as the only one of the G7 to face recession
this year highlights the end result of a decade of Labour's economic
mismanagement:
This concerns me less than other
factors. The opportunity for a bit of hysteresis in the productive economy is overdue. Not
having an economy locked into ECB rules gives us a bit more freedom to react to
our own advantage, unlike Spain, Ireland and Denmark (ERM II), also suffering badly from a
housing downturn. All we need is a Conservative government.
It is thought that late 2009 is the
earliest possible date for a second Irish referendum on the Lisbonconstitution treaty, but serious consideration is being given to ways in which Ireland can ratify the constitution without another
referendum. Our hope still remains in holding a Cameron government to his
referendum commitment before all EU states have ratified. The collapse of
Brown's government and an election as soon as possible may not be Cameron's
first choice, but it's certainly mine.
Our economic woes may be filling the
front pages, but the real problem remains 'Europe'.
Interesting piece over at the Torygraph from
Bruno Waterfield.
Turns out that a
secret report commissioned by the EU has dictated that blogging is (wait for
it)….
AN ANTI ESTABLISHMENT ACTIVITY
Yes, I laughed out
loud as well.
It also mourns the “shift away from
the state news radio and TV stations” – apparently “this means the
quality of debate has suffered”.
But the strongest language and darkest fears are reserved for the realm of the
internet with its message boards, blogs and independence.This realm is all the
more dangerous in EU eyes, as we
have seen before, because it
communicates to many people, it is comparatively unregulated, it is
comparatively independent of state or private media monopoly, and it is easy
for people to do themselves.
“Blogging is also seen as an anti-establishment activity. Few Yes
campaigners came out with forceful counter arguments or were inspired to do so.
Because of the many different sources of No campaigners on the internet,
classic rebuttals is [sic] made impossible,” says the report – which makes
no recommendations.”Blog activity remains overwhelmingly negative.”
The EU blog wars have
begun. The Commission and Brussels
institutions know it. The next battle between them and us, establishment and
anti-establishment, official and unofficial is only a matter of time. What are
they going to do about it? Is the EU ready? Are you ready?
Read
the full report here and the Telegraph article here
So why do you think that ?
Telling people the truth about the EU is just so wrong, telling people what
they are entitled to know about the establishment is seen by the establishment
as anti.
Well many people forget that over 80% of our law is now written in Brussels.
That Brown or any other PM (looks like Cameroon
soon), are working with their hands tied behind their backs, and find it
impossible to do anything in our own national interest. Or are already bought
and paid for to act
in the EU's interest rather than ours.
About the best
commentary I've found this morning on Brown's attempted intervention in the
housing market is from Simon Jenkins in the
Grauniad. Simon repeats the
call for the government to scrap HIPs that appears elsewhere:
At the same time
Gordon Brown should have cleared some of the bureaucratic clutter that now
infests house purchase. Chief is the home improvement pack, a costly and
redundant gimmick from a former housing minister, Yvette Cooper (now at the
Treasury) eager to meddle. It has merely imposed another transaction tax on
house purchase.
The fact that the
energy performance certificate at the heart of the HIP is an EU and not a
government requirement – blogged by EU
Referendum on 1/9 – tends
not to get a mention in the press.
The cost of HIPS though is a drop in
the ocean compared with the total costs of EU membership; an analysis by Civitas in 2004 suggested a likely net cost of £40bn a year
to the UK economy.
The costs of domestic red tape,
including the 'gold plating' of EU directives, has been an increasing burden on
business during Labour's tenure. Where two or three civil servants are gathered
together, the first thing they do is to develop a form for someone to fill in.
Regulatory costs will only be trimmed with a freeze on all non-critical public
sector recruitment.
The OECD's highlighting of the UK as the only one of the G7 to face recession
this year highlights the end result of a decade of Labour's economic
mismanagement:
This concerns me less than other
factors. The opportunity for a bit of hysteresis in the productive economy is overdue. Not
having an economy locked into ECB rules gives us a bit more freedom to react to
our own advantage, unlike Spain, Ireland and Denmark (ERM II), also suffering badly from a
housing downturn. All we need is a Conservative government.
It is thought that late 2009 is the
earliest possible date for a second Irish referendum on the Lisbonconstitution treaty, but serious consideration is being given to ways in which Ireland can ratify the constitution without another
referendum. Our hope still remains in holding a Cameron government to his
referendum commitment before all EU states have ratified. The collapse of
Brown's government and an election as soon as possible may not be Cameron's
first choice, but it's certainly mine.
Our economic woes may be filling the
front pages, but the real problem remains 'Europe'.
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