Crazy Culture - Break in, Get Hurt, Get Compensation

Crazy Britain! A boy who broke into a school was handed £5,700 compensation when he hurt himself swinging on a gate. £2 Million has been paid out by schools over the last year to pupils who have injured themselves.

The crazy litigation culture we find ourselves in means its really easy to claim compensation from schools in the event of injury, even if the injury's as a result of breaking the Law.
The payouts are causing schools to introduce more safety measures. Shadow Education Secretary david Willetts said: " If councils are paying out millions because of routine accidents, it could lead to schools wrapping kids in cotton wool.

A Taxpayer Alliance spokesman said: "The vast majority of claims are people out to make a quick buck at the expense of taxpayers.

Footnote: Security Guards are now being routinely sent on First Aid Courses specifically to be able to assist criminals who may injure themselves whilst committing crime on the premises the Guards look after.

Reply from Eddy2Socks Recieved

Sorry but........
Paul, with the greatest respect....If you feel so deeply about all these things then do something about it. Whinging on a website will change nowt mate.Get yourself involved in a way that might change the things that annoy you. Join me on my "free the budgies" sorties
Positive action or stop whinging!

My reply back.........

Firstly, I'm a paid member of UKIP, so I presume that goes some way to a sortie? I'd like to stand for election in the locals, but I can't because:

I dont talk with a Norfolk dialect
I can't raise the fee to stand, especially just to lose my deposit
I don't like dealing with people when I'm at a disadvantage - like begging for votes
I don't like getting involved with people anyway - and I have to be a people person for this
And there's no way I'd like to commute between Home & London!

So my paid membership will have to do for a start. And as for the other part, well, lets just say that the pen (font) is mightier than the sword. And, if enough people read this blog - and it's mirror on blogger.com - it must just persuade a few people to vote for UKIP firstly, and help convionce them that Europe - and New Labour - are together the biggest rip off merchants going.See? It can lead somewhere, can't it?Paul

This original post can be seen on my mirror blog here:
http://www.itsmymarket.com/forum/showthread.php?t=843

Crazy Enforcement 1

Silly council officials have ordered a pub to shut all its windows to stop cigarette smoke drifting inside.

The enforcement officers warned that fumes from smokers could waft through and violate the ban.

They told the staff to keep all windows and doors locked all throughout the summer months at the Greyhound pub in Maidenhead, Berks, or risk being fined.

Environmental health officer Gillian Taylor said "I can confirm we advised the premises that the windows be closed. This is in keeping with good practice to ensure compliance with the spirit of the legislation. Every situation is different and we need to ensure non smokers don't have to endure smoke blowing in from outside."

Public Overspend Costs Each Household £900

Taxpayers are picking up a bill of £23 billion - £900 for every household in Britain - after hundreds of Government projects spiralled over budget.

The sudy by the Taxpayers Alliance pressure group states the problems are made much worse by the fact that politicians and Whitehall officials have "no experience of managing large projects."

Conservatives have said the report underlined concerns that the Government was squandering tax payers money.

Philip Hammond, Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury said: "Labours inability to manage projects effectively partly explains why Gordon Brown has spent so much and achieved so little."

EU Officials Confirm Britains Red Line Opt Out as Worthless

Senior EU Officials have themselves confirmed that Britains "Red Line" opt out from the Charter Of Fundamental Rights is not worth the paper it is written on.

Margot Wallstrom, the European Vice President said the Charter will apply to swathes of British law.

Gordon Brown has admitted that "approximately half of all new regulations that impact upon businesses in the UK originate from the EU"

If the EU treaty agreed by Tony Blair is ratified, Gordon Brown will find the charter, including the right to strike, is enforceable in European Courts. If ratified, the Charter will be unstoppable in changing Britain and its' laws.

Crazy Europe To Control Britains Sporting Issues

Brussels wants to take over sporting issues across the European union after Tony Blair signed away the National Veto last month.

Jan Figel, the EU commissioner in charge of sport, believes sport should be subject to the same rules as other economic sectors.
He wants Europe to be in charge of everything from football transfer fees to crackdowns on corruption.

EU Leaders signed away the ability of one country to block proposals on sporting issues when they agreed on a replacement to the constitutional treaty. More than 50 vetoes have been voted away to prevent legislative deadlock in the EU, which has grown now to 27 members

Photo attached to this blog shows Jan Figel

Another Crazy New Tax: Government unit 'urges fat tax'

Plans for a tax on fatty foods such as cakes and biscuits are being considered by government advisers

The Prime Minister's Strategy Unit is considering increasing duties on some food and having a sports drive to fight obesity, according to the Times.

The newspaper claims a document urges a fatty food tax as a "signal to society" because the number of obese British people has risen sharply in 20 years.

A Downing Street spokesman said the government had no plans for such a tax.

He said: "It is no secret that the government is looking at the problem of obesity. "
The spokesman said that there was agreement both in and out of government that it would not be a workable system.
However, he confirmed the story came from a minor discussion document by their strategy unit.
The Times says the strategy unit's paper, titled Personal Responsibility and Changing Behaviour, points out that NHS spending on obesity-related disease has risen.
"The main drivers - poor diet and a sedentary lifestyle - are largely outside the direct influence of the NHS," it says.
It suggests a number of policies such as a national sports drive along the lines of the successful Active Australia strategy, and lifestyle lessons in schools Tax 'life-saving'
A new tax or the extension of VAT is proposed for some dairy products, fast food and sweets.

"This would be a signal to producers as well as consumers and serve more broadly as a signal to society that nutritional content in food is important," says the document.

Last year doctors at the British Medical Association (BMA) debated a proposal to impose the full 17.5% VAT rate on a wider range of high-fat foods such as biscuits, cakes and processed meals.
The full 17.5% rate is already charged on some foods including fizzy drinks, crisps and heated burgers.

The British Medical Journal recently claimed a 'fat tax' could help prevent 1,000 premature deaths from heart disease every year in the UK.

Plans opposed
Martin Paterson, of the Food and Drink Federation, said a fat tax would hit lower income families who already spend a higher proportion of their income on food and drink.
He said: "Consumers will rightly feel patronised by "top-down" messages based on the idea that they can't think for themselves and need to be taxed into weight-loss.
"The idea that any particular food is bad for you is out of date and simplistic. A balanced diet can include snacks and treats - moderation is the key."

The Nanny state is killing our Country

Political & Social Correctness is killing our world

Everything the Western world takes for granted as a pillar of liberty is being taken away by our Health & Safety obsessed nanny state Governments, whereas in reality the formation of incredulous Health & Safety rules form an effective back door access to increased taxes.

Yet, if many of these new guidelines are to be believed, the vast majority of us should not be alive today as the world many of us have grown up in is far too dangerous, according to todays new regulations.

As babies, we grew up in cribs painted in lead based paint which was promptly chewed and licked. There were no child proof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors and cabinets and it was fine to play with the pots and pans.

We rode our bikes without helmets, florescent jackets and other body protection, just sandals on our feet, and more often than not, wearing just tee shirts and shorts.

As children, providing Mum and Dad were able to afford a car, we rode in them without seatbelts, air bags or side impact protection.

We drank the dew from the grass in the fields, and water from garden hosepipes and not from a bottle, and it still tasted the same. We ate sandwiches made from the cold fat left over after cooking meat - called dripping in England - and followed it by drinking sugar rich pop or soda drinks. We were never overweight because cars, computer games, and televisions were not as prolific as they are now, so we were always playing outside.

We didn't have hundreds of television channels, videos, DVD's, Surround sound, mobile and cell phones, computers and chatrooms. We used to have real friends and we had to physically go out to find them.

We used to walk to school everyday instead of Mom taking us in the big four wheel drive armoured personnel carriers they use today, clogging up all the roads.

We shared one drink between four or five friends, and no one died from doing so. We spent hours building carts from scrap wood, and after crashing into nettles so many times, we learned how to cure the blisters without medication creams. We would play out all day, in all weathers, getting back before dark. No one was able to reach us all day, and no one minded.

We played street games and cricket without helmets. Sometimes the ball really did hurt. We fell out of trees, got cuts and bruises and broken teeth and there were no lawsuits. We just learned not to do the same thing again. We made our things last for as long as possible, and the idea of our parents baling us if we got into trouble with the police was unheard of. We learned our actions were our own and consequences expected.

This freedom produced some of the best risk takers, inventors and problem solvers - ever. We had freedom, failure, responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it ourselves before Governments started to interfere and regulate our lives for our own good. Health and Safety legislation is the biggest killer of normality ever as it envelopes everyone in it's tireless grip of cotton wool

Britain, as well as suffering from the Nanny State, also endures interference from the European market in daily life. Britain, like most western countries, is now a health and safety obsessed Nanny State. Between them, the British and European Governments have brought in hundreds of new laws, often on a weekly basis, and over eighty new taxes in the last ten years to help pay for them.

Britain is now a country where you can't ride your bike (ethically at least) without a florescent jacket and a stupid cycle helmet. It's now a country where you can't eat beef on the bone, parents cannot physically discipline their children with a slap, hunting is banned, smokers cannot light up in the pub, at work, or in the car. Health visitors are told not to enter a patients house if they've smoked at home, hospitals will not treat smokers unless they've given up for at least three months, and overweight people must lose weight before being treated....

Britains now a country where the rights of the criminal far outweigh those of the Victim. Children have been stopped from catching crabs at the seaside in some areas, and are now unable to pay conkers at school. Schools close in "bad" weather, which, in reality, means a few millimetres of snow on the ground. London has introduced a congestion charge for vehicles entering the city on the roads the public have already paid for, and many other councils are set to follow suit. Speed limits on most roads are being dropped, and speed cameras proliferate at an ever increasing rate to trap errant drivers - and fine them for speeding in order to raise more finance for the local councils.

Manufacturers of certain foods cannot advertise on television if children may be watching, this includes some health foods which, by virtue of European definition only, are now classed as junk food.

As more power is handed to local councils by Europe, additional civil servants are hired as Enforcement Officers. Children, including pre-schoolers, have been fined for dropping crisp packets in the street. Shoppers are banned from wearing hoods or baseball caps in shopping centres. Shops are banned, and people are banned from sending, age related birthday cards. Councils have banned the use of so called offensive words. Words such as manpower, black, white, she, man, woman, are all examples. With the result that British school children now make Uncoloured Snowpersons. Hooligans cannot be called yobs anymore, in case it upsets them. Staff cannot wear a crucifix at some workplaces.

Enforcement Officers are being recruited at an alarming rate and are responsible for their own specialist area. Photographs are being taken of houses, without owners knowledge, so the council can raise additional Council Tax when the rules change, by charging extra tax to people who have improved their homes by building extensions or garages. Spy cameras are being fitted to bins or trash cans to monitor the levels of waste, and are responsible for householders being fined if those bins are put out on the wrong day, or simply just too early, for the refuse collectors.

On the work front, British workers cannot now turn on an electrical appliance, use a ladder, or a photocopier, or boil a kettle until that appliance has been independently tested, the workers have attended, and passed, a training course proving they are proficient in the use of the item. The Risk Assessment must be carried out beforehand. And the individual member of staff must not work more than 48 hours a week

So, in conclusion, where does this lead us?

Childhood diseases increase because freedom and adventure is curtailed, the overweight, too clean, housebound child cannot build up their natural immunities to the outside world.

Businesses dying because of excessive taxation, rules, regulations and red tape from both the British and European Governments. Enterprise and entrepreneurial skills curtailed by foreign, remote Governments who have no interest in this country, save for enforcing ridiculous European laws here.

Community spirit has died because people are too frightened to get involved anymore. No one knows their neighbours today. There are no front doors left open anymore. Men are frightened to be left alone with children of any age.

Police Officers too frightened to get involved with criminals in case the criminals are deprived of their human rights by them doing so. Terrorists and other criminals prosper in number because no one dares to check what they're doing. The innocent suffering as the criminals live in protected luxury. Early release for prisoners. Stupidly lenient sentencing in the first place. Some crimes being decriminalised such as shoplifting, such offenders now receive on the spot fines instead of a court appearance. Police Officers stopped from doing their job effectively by complicated European legislation, Risk Assessments and human rights.

Ordinary people made to be criminals for every day living. Taxes increasing every day almost to pay for stupid, meaningless human right laws and council regulations. Having the incentive to work taken away from them, so they cannot earn overtime once the 48 hour rule comes in. Unemployed parents being entitled to extreme amounts of Government cash handouts if they have large families meaning they lose money if they were to work for a living.

Ultimately, as more people are made criminals, through regulations, the British Government will build up it's database of DNA, reported to be the largest such database in the world. ID Cards are being phased in, for which everyone must pay for their own ID card, which they will have to have by law.

The end result of which will be a total Police state with the highest taxation levels in the world, but at the same time, one which allows murderers and terrorists to commit their crimes with total freedom. A society which has no community spirit, the vast majority of it's people in poverty, and the only winners will be the criminals, council leaders and the European Government