ONE LAW FOR THEM AND ONE FOR US

A baroness of this countries Parliament has been found guilty by her peers of making bogus claims for housing. As well as being banned from the House of Lords till 2012, she was fined £125,000. However, she was allowed to pay this back by foregoing her £300 a day daily attendance fee and she doesn't have to start paying till she resumes office.

That means we, the tax payer, are actually paying her fine.

Sorry but fraud is fraud. If I fiddled my expenses and was lucky enough not to be sent to jail I doubt I would get 2yrs to pay my fine at the tax payers expense and given 2years period of grace.

OUR PUBLIC SERVANTS SHOULD BE ABOVE REPROACH BUT NOT ABOVE THE LAW


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GO TO JAIL AND EARN A FORTUNE MY SON

I think I will advise kids looking to make their fortune to get themselves locked up "At Her Majestys' Pleasure"

It is reported that prisoners in the prison system have been taking Human rights cases to court and winning them.  28 out of 30 claims made have been successful.  They have one cash for having to slop out, being put in solitary confinement and are currently seeking compensation because they are not allowed to vote.

Oh, and guess who is paying the solicitors who act on their behalf, yes you have guessed it, we do.  The little angels get legal aid to fund their claims.

I always thought that Human rights were for those who acted responsibly and the lack of responsible behaviour reduced the right to such considerations!

DEAR PRISONERS - YOU'VE DONE THE CRIME NOW DRY YOUR EYES AND DO YOUR TIME

KIDS AT WORK

The potato harvesting season is on us and farmers have to get them in as quickly as possible.  What about the farmer who employed a Romanian family to work on his farm, and I mean the whole family...including a 9 year old child.

I thought the days of forced child labour were long since gone. 

Shame on the farmer....I am willing to bet that he was paying a lot less than the minimum wage for the back breaking work. 

Shame on the family....a 9 year old should be in school not in the fields

NEXT THING YOU KNOW WE WILL BE PUTTING KIDS UP CHIMNEYS TO CLEAN THEM

CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME PART II

Back in July I moaned that the government had ring fenced the Foriegn Aid budget in the, then, upcoming spending review.  Well...now we have had the review not only did they ring fence it, they have increased it by £3bn.

We are giving away my hard earned cash to help underprivileged countries.  In the normal course of events I don't mind but when we are all being hit, this increase is outrageous.  That amount of money could provide about 300 new schools, 20 new hospitals and could have kept our defence capability up by funding the, soon to be scrapped, Harrier Jet fleet.

COME ON GUYS - WE ARE ALL BEING TOLD THAT THE COUNTRY HAS NOTHING LEFT IN THE PIGGY BANK BUT YOU KEEP FINDING SOME CASH UNDER THE BED!

IS IT REALLY NEWS?

All this week the top story on the National news has been about a football player who has decided it is time to move clubs.

At the beginning of the week we all had to suffer the "will he won't he" debate as he and his club refused to confirm or deny that he was to be on the move.  Now toward the end of the week the headlines declare that he will move and speculate where he will go.........WHO CARES!!!!

People are starving throughout the world, people are dying in wars and we are all in a financial mess courtesy of bankers/government/previous government/world wide recession (delete as applicable). 

Our media need to get a real perspective on the issues of the world.

KEEP SPORT ON THE BACK PAGES AND THE SPORTS SECTIONS OF TV PROGRAMMES....IT IS NOT EARTHSHATTERING NEWS.

MY BOY LOLLIPOP

So the school crossing patroller - lollipop man to me and you - wanted to thank motorists who stopped to let the kids cross the road.  He used to shout his thanks but the motorists didn't hear him so he made a modification to his lollypop - he stuck a "thank you" sign on it.

Now he has been warned by his employers and ordered to take it down as it might be a distraction to drivers!  What a load of rubbish - in that case the sight of an elderly man who walks out in the front of traffic carrying a "STOP" sign is not a distraction to drivers, or a danger to himself.

In this day and age, when good manners are in short supply, it is nice when someone takes time and thought to thank someone.  The local council needs to lighten up and think again.

TO THE LOLLIPOP MAN ----- THANK YOU

X(TRAODINARY) FACTOR

While on the subject isn't it amazing that this girl and her family are fighting to stay in the country - possibly a life and death outcome - but the public are more interested in getting her through to the next round of a television programme.

She says she is in danger for her life if she is returned to her homeland BUT she sells her story to a National newspaper in which she criticises the leader of that country. If I were her I would stay very very quiet.

Maybe I am being a cynic (never) but could this be her way making sure her life is REALLY at risk and that she can get a stay of deportation.

X FACTOR IS ONLY TV - DEPORTATION COULD BE FOR LIFE!

X(PELLED) FACTOR

One of this years unsuccessful X Factor contestants is being returned to her homeland as she has overstayed her visa.

I did feel a little sorry for her until I read that her mother, on whom she is dependent, has been accused of a £16000 benefit fraud.

THE GIRL CAN DEFINATELY SING - IT'S PITY HER MOTHER IS ACCUSED AS BEING A THIEF

HEALTH AND STUPIDITY STRIKE AGAIN

First aiders and first aid kits are required by law. . . . So far so good. It now appears that the risk of being sued means that the first aid kits are somewhat lacking in resources.

It is reported that scissors to cut bandages have been taken out in case someone gets cut, elastoplasts no longer feature as the patient may have an allergy and bandages have been shortened in case someone tries to hang themself!

WHEN WILL THIS LUNACY END?

DON'T TAKE A FENCE

A keen gardener decided to brighten up the front of his house so that passers by and neighbours admired his flower borders. He laid out his flowers and put in a little 15inch fence just to keep them in place.

Enter the local authority..... He did not have permission to build a fence and because of the height there was risk of people tripping over it. He was ordered to remove it all.


WHY LET COMMON  SENSE GET IN THE WAY OF RED TAPE?

PCs ARE TOO PC

An old guy goes into a police office in Scotland and tells the officer he is going on holiday. He says he has been reading about a scam where some unscrupulous Lithuanian gangs have taken over vacant houses and rented them out. He asks the officer if the local police can keep an eye on his house while is away.

The policeman thinks that mentioning the Lithuanian nationality in this context is racism and gives the man a ticking off.

What a load of rubbish. Are the police now so sensitive that any mention of nationality constitutes a racist crime?

Can we no longer mention swiss rolls, french bread or indian summer?

THE WORLD IS LOSING ITS COMMON SENSE AND POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IS NOW POLITICAL NONSENSE.

CONKERS BONKERS

Now is the time when little girls and boys all over the UK collect horse chestnuts, tie string to them and challenge each other to conker competitions.

Not in Nottingham apparently. Last year a little girl fractured her skull when a stick she threw into the tree came down and hit her on the head.

This year, to avoid a repeat, the council have sent out their workers to strip the trees of the conkers. Isn't that a good use of council resources?

THE NANNY STATE AND ELFIN SAFETY STRIKE AGAIN - BONKERS!

SEX PROBLEMS - ADVERTISING MYTH

Apparently the condition "female sexual dysfunction" was invented by drug companies in order that they can sell remedies!

Women and doctors believed their marketing claims and some women even began to recognise the "symptoms"

Doctors prescribed them because they didn't know what else to do and the drug companies made huge profits.

I CANNOT CONDONE THE LACK OF ADVERTISING ETHIC, BUT AREN'T SOME FOLK GULLIBLE - DON'T ALWAYS BELIEVE WHAT YOU ARE TOLD