Another hospital bans flowers
Banning flowers in Dorset
This time South End hospital has decided to ban flowers for health and safety reasons for a trial period of one month starting July 7th. The ban is being introduced because the hospital believes flowers could pose a safety hazard with all the hi-tech medical equipment around beds.
Could this idiocy be coming to a hospital near you? It wouldn’t surprise me.
Paddling pool banned again
For nearly a quarter of a century, Lourdes Maxwell has celebrated the arrival of summer by putting a paddling pool in the garden.
This year, however, her two grandchildren and the children of her neighbours may have to find another way to cool off in the heat.
Miss Maxwell's local council has decided that the pool - which is only 2ft deep - needs a lifeguard.
The 47-year-old divorced mother of three has also been told she must have insurance before she can inflate the toy outside her house in
This is just ridiculous. It’s a paddling pool for gods sake! Why can’t councils just let adults take responsibility for their children? Of course this is not the first time this has happened. I blogged about this happening to Katie Joyce almost 3 years ago.
Nothing has changed. Health and safety bureaucrats only do this because they can’t get real jobs and it doesn’t look like national or local government will take action to stop it because they have had 3 years to stop it.
Need a fix? Ask the government for money (2)
The Sunday Express is about a year and a half late. What am I talking about? Well it’s this story about alcoholics being able to claim incapacity benefit for their alcoholism.
I blogged about it here in October 2006. It looks like this is yet another lesson that the government haven’t learnt and something that they haven’t done anything about.
So remember, if you need a fix just tap up the government for a little money. You won’t need to pay it back.
Bin men not doing their job
During August last year it was reported by the Daily Mail that it was too dangerous for Portsmouth’s bin men to empty their own bins so resident had to do it instead.
Craven District Council have decided on the same course of action. They don’t want their bin men getting hurt so they have decided that residents should take the rubbish out of the bins themselves.
Why are these people paying council tax if they have to do everything themselves? It is a bin man’s job to lift rubbish and put it in the truck. If they don’t want to do that they should find another job.
The government were told this was happening
Last March I blogged that failed asylum seekers were being paid £3500 to leave
At the last count 400 failed asylum seekers had come back and most were allowed to stay in this country, presumably without giving the money back.
It’s now been more than a year since the media highlighted what was happening but it seems the government still has not done anything about it. Well they haven’t with criminals anyway.
Hakim Benmakhlouf is an Algerian immigrant and also a thief. He was paid £3000 to leave the country. If I was in charge he wouldn’t have been given a choice or the money but the government in their wisdom decided to give him the money and the next day he was back in Britain committing crime again and he is now taking up valuable space in our prisons and we still won’t see a penny of that £3000 that we gave him.
Asylum seekers stay for being too violent (2)
Hundreds of failed asylum seekers escape deportation every year by throwing tantrums at the airport.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith revealed that 2,079 have been spared removal as a result of their "disruptive behaviour" in the past two years.
In each case, thousands of pounds had been spent detaining the bogus refugees, holding them in removal centres and arranging flights.
However, once they arrived at the airport to board their flight home, they behaved so erratically that airlines refused to take them for safety reasons.
I blogged about this happening in May and since then nothing has been done about it. The only thing the government does is bribe them to leave. If they refuse to leave and become violent they should be sedated until the end of the flight. They shouldn’t have a choice in the matter especially if they become violent.
Women to escape justice (2)
A major review of prisons in
The recommendations from Government trouble-shooter Lord Carter of Coles would also see high-risk offenders housed in new "federal" style jails, the Times newspaper said.
Lower-risk criminals would be contained in so-called community prisons, with many short-term inmates in open facilities offering treatment for addictions and other resettlement programmes, it added.
This ‘major review’ has already happened, infact I blogged about it in March. This one has a few minor changes. The government must have figured that lots of people didn’t like the first policy that they had to change it to make it more acceptable, hoping no one would figure out that they have already announced it.
Fire! (2?)
Firefighters in
Free Polish classes are also on offer to firefighters, to help make them understood by the 50,000 Polish immigrants who have settled in
Incase you don’t know I blogged about this in March 2006, however it was Grampian firefighters that used the language cards and those were printed in 13 different languages.
Immigrants should be able to speak English if they come to work here. If they can’t they shouldn’t be given a job.
Labour to deal with immigration the wrong way (2?)
Gordon Brown is set to announce tighter controls on would-be migrants coming to work in the
The Prime Minister will say that tens of thousands more migrant workers must pass English language tests before coming to the
The controversial clampdown, to be unveiled in a speech to the TUC annual conference in
Labour said something similar 11 months ago and nothing has been done. This is nothing but a lie. If they were serious they would have started months ago.
They are going about it all wrong anyway. EU immigrants are the main problem. If anything we should be putting limits on EU immigrants but we aren’t allowed to do that because the EU says so.
30% of failed asylum seekers bribed to leave
ONE in three failed asylum seekers kicked out by Labour has to be bribed to leave, costing the taxpayer millions of pounds a year.
More than 5,300 refused applicants who left the
The bribes have continued at a similar rate this year as ministers try to clear the backlog of hundreds of failed asylum
seekers who are still here.
Figures show more failed applicants stayed here last year than were removed. The number of removals is at its lowest level for five years.
This has been going on for years. Infact as I blogged in July many come back after being bribed to leave and that is perfectly legal.
We shouldn’t be paying these people to leave. If they have failed to get asylum they should have no other choice but to leave. If they don’t like it then it is tough for them.
Hat tip: Nationalist Dissident Voice.
Asylum seekers paid to go home then come back
HUNDREDS of failed asylum-seekers who were paid to leave
Almost 400 of the 5,000 refugees booted out last year with business grants of up to £3,500 in their pockets are known to have returned.
Two-thirds have now been told they can STAY. But the rest want a SECOND handout at British taxpayers' expense.
We were told this was happening in March but nothing has been done. At that time there were about 300 that came back. The government could have done something about that other 100 when they were informed by the newspapers but they haven’t done anything.
Labour to tax the poor (2?)
Unclaimed money from abandoned bank accounts will fund government plans to provide positive activities for teenagers and reduce youth crime.
The funding - £184m of new money - will be supplemented with money taken from so-called "dormant" bank accounts, which have not been used for 15 years or more.
They are recycling news again. I blogged about this in March and there is still trouble with it which might mean that it affects the poor more but it seems that I am the only one to notice.
Remember those baby bonds worth £250 that every baby will get which they can take out when they reach the age of 18? It seems from birth to adulthood is more than 15 years to me… This means that Brown will be taxing money that he has given you. Who will have left these baby bonds dormant for the longest periods? It will be the poorer families who can’t afford to add extra money to their child’s bank account while the richer members of society will be able to.
Brown lies to businessmen (2?)
A drive to cut the regulatory burden on business and reform the risk-averse culture of government departments will be launched by the
Gordon Brown is determined to make action on red tape a higher government priority, in a bid to outflank the opposition Conservatives on a core business issue.
The prime minister has told the new Department for Business,
John Hutton, business secretary, will on Wednesday outline to MPs a wide-ranging plan for implementing assorted ministerial pledges, including a 25 per cent cut in the administrative burden imposed by government departments.
Errmmm… Mr Brown, didn’t you say you were going to do this in October? Infact you said almost the exact same thing but as I said last time you won’t be able to succeed without leaving the EU seeing as how most of our regulation comes from the EU.
With your past record I seriously doubt you will leave the EU. Maybe you and the Labour party should be given lessons in telling the truth just like the employees of the BBC?
Calls for amnesty (3)
Once again there are calls for an amnesty for illegal immigrants. This story just won’t go away. This time it is a think tank with close links to the Labour party. In March it was in the news and it was called the ‘Strangers into Citizens scheme’. In June 2006 it was the Home Office who raised the prospect of an amnesty.
If they are allowed to break the law and get away with it why can’t I break the law and face no prospect of being sent to prison? These illegal immigrants are breaking the law and should be found and deported immediately. If I can’t break the law why should they be allowed to?
Schools told mix or fail
In May I blogged that schools will be labelled failing schools if they don’t promote race relations by twinning with multiethnic schools and striking up partnerships with Muslim schools. Well it seems that the newspapers are recycling the story because it’s in the Daily Mail.
There are a few differences in the stories though. Last time it said that they “should be twinned with ethnically mixed schools”. They have changed it to “Schools in rural or suburban areas will be urged to twin with multi-ethnic schools”. Read it? “Urged” seems like it will be voluntary but the fact that they are going to be closed down if they don’t shows that it’s just spin. They won’t be urged. They will be forced.
