English and European Comment

Feb 10

DNA Database

09. Our right wing new labour government has decided to retain innocent people on its police database. This is despite the European Court's directive to remove innocent people from the English police' database. The anti-human rights English Home Office has got round the European directive by reading the directive as requiring that innocents should not be on the database permanently. One wonders where these Home Office employees come from. A person  with half a brain would know that once it is accepted that innocent people can be retained on a police data base - they will at the end of the day never come off.

Mathematics

We are told that are children are struggling with mathematics. It must be difficult for them when their parents and the media here in the UK are still talking in yards, feet and inches. The government isn't helping much, when the practical use of mathematics in judging distance, is displayed on our our road signs in miles.

Energy Saving Light Bulbs

 The Union has judged that these devices are the way ahead in the saving of energy, and have decided that the production of the old type of light bulbs should stop. One wonders how much light is given off by these energy saving light bulbs in the rest of the European Union. Here in the UK the older people are finding that this new type of lighting, rated at 100watts is providing insufficient illumination to read the 'small print of various contracts', or even to read a book! and for that reason are still using the old type of bulb. 'Hello! Are any of our European MPs awake?'

DNA

The English who control most of the UK (England, Wales & Northern Ireland) have decided to allow the police to continue collecting the DNA of innocent people; and retain it for between six and twelve years. Many innocent people are traumatised by the authorities retaining their DNA. This behaviour by right wing administrators  in this 'socialist' country is illegal, as ruled by the seventeen to one  judgement against this behaviour by the European Court of Human Rights. The Scottish government which appears to have more intelligence and more important, 'common sense', does not have the same right wing tendencies, probably because they have a greater knowledge of the people they select to represent them.

Illegal Drugs. A Threat to our Democracies?

Prior to the 1950s in the UK, drugs which are now illegal could be obtained from a doctor and only a small number of people used the service. One or two doctors decided to increase their customer base by supplying unregistered users. Since then specific drugs have been make illegal, but, the excellent distribution system of 'criminals' to continue the supply, has enabled their use to be made available to users or experimenters even in small villages. Experimenting with drugs by a small majority of  people and their subsequently becoming 'hooked' will never be stopped. So, why do we spend billions of pounds/dollars/Euros on imprisoning people, having our soldiers killed and employing thousands of people to control a trade which has been generated by making drugs illegal? We can only presume that a pressure group of people who make a nice living out of the trade, continuously blind our politicians from the obvious answer - put the illegal traffickers to our children out of business by selling the drugs to registered addicts at a continuously cheaper price than the illegal traffickers charge. To enable this; pay the poppy crop growers in various countries, including Afghanistan a higher price than the 'criminals' pay and use it within our health services. This should also put the Taliban who are supported for opposing the destruction of poppy fields, the main income of Afghanistan, out of business.
            2009. It's reported that international drug police are being so successful that the cost of drugs sold on our streets has increased by twenty five percent and the quality of the drugs sold to addicts is even worse than before. What does this achieve? More drug addict deaths and more thieving to pay for the drugs.
       

ID Cards

Two servicemen, back from fighting abroad were refused entry into a Wetherspoon's pub because their service ID cards were not on Wetherspoons list of approved ID cards. One wonders how many other young people have been embarrassed unnecessarily by the small minded civilians who oppose a national ID card.

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Boundary Commissioners

Why do we have a Boundary Commission in the UK? Why, if a person is born in Norfolk could they end up saying that they were born in Suffolk. As a person born in Warrington, Lancashire, which is now a town in Cheshire - I am annoyed that a Commission should re-address my birthplace.
    This Commission's life  is of course to do with politics, and our antiquated electoral system. It's continued existence is to do with our resistance to electing our representative politicians through proportional representation. Personally, I would have thought that the number of  MPs representing Norfolk in parliament should be based on the number of people in the county. The rest of us should be represented by elected village, town and city Mayors passing on our wishes (in conference)  to a Unitary Authority of mayors who would pressurise as necessary the county MPs. Additionally, with approximately seventy counties in the UK, one would expect that one of these elected representatives would be judged as suitable for representing the county in the House of Lords (House of County Representatives) as Senators.

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The price of off-peak electricity in the UK, can be as low as 4 to 5p / kilowatt-hour. Some landlords in the UK are charging domestic tenants 10p / kilowatt-hour for off-peak electricity, using cards supplied by themselves to activate their tenants meters. People who use this method are usually pensioners, the low-paid or people who can't yet afford the deposit for buying a house or flat.

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Sea Warming

We are constantly being told that our seas are warming up, the ice-caps are melting and the fish are moving northwards. Why, therefore, do we use inefficient, high maintenance seaside and countryside polluting wind-turbines to produce carbon free electricity. Surely, using a heat exchanger to extract heat from the sea or land, enables a constant electricity supply to be provided from a steam driven turbine generator; more efficient and cools the sea. Can it be that our history of engineering innovation here in the UK has been polluted by fast fix politicians.

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Free Enterprise Science of Shaving - or how to reduce the number of shaves given by a stainless steel blade - to one.

Imagination

A city in Germany was left with a huge building in which the intention was to build airships. The company went bust and the city in having to do something with the building turned it into a  magnificent warm holiday resort , in which its citizens living in that cold area of Germany could have a break in their Riviera like environment.
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Kids? - fascinating cartoon games for children of all ages.

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Charity Commission

The Charity Commission in the UK does not appear to take much interest in the unpaid voluntary workers who are the basis of their existence. Except for the media who occasionally run a ‘who is your favourite voluntary worker’ there does not appear to be any recognition of the many thousands of volunteers - beavering away, unrecognised, in the many charities, affiliated to the Commission.
    One would expect a caring Charity Commission who make quite a lot of money selling the rules needed to run a charity, legally; to respect these selfless workers by a least issuing a medal ‘Bronze’ for one years service, ‘Silver’ for five years service and ‘Gold’ for ten years service to these (unpaid volunteers) – with their name on the back. Alternatively, the Commission should pressurise the government into granting to these unpaid workers a percentage of tax relief on any income that they have.

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The English part of the UK

A country with a 'democracy' which is administered by 'leaders' not selected by the electorate. A country which has no respected statesmen or women.  A country where changes to its 'unwritten constitution' - which should protect our freedoms and rights - can be attempted by a simple majority in parliament. A country where our weird administrators have had to have people who apply for English nationality swear allegiance to the Queen? i.e. nothing specific; unlike mature countries which require an allegiance to its country's written constitution.

With no clear direction from the absent leaders, we have the power crazies making decisions. A pensioner who has carried a small knife in his pocket since he was a boy was prosecuted by the police and fined £200 for carrying a dangerous weapon? A self-employed man sitting in his van at the side of the road, was observed by council officials to light a cigarette - they fined him for smoking in his workplace???. The 'English Health and Safety' (that Empire Building organisation) have in some way gained access to some elderly peoples' flat, where they have lived for thirty five years, and instructed them to remove the pictures from their internal walls – they consider them as being dangerously unsafe as they could fall on some person's foot!!! A man travelling to his gardening work was stopped and charged by the police with having a dangerous weapon - he was carrying in his van a scythe for cutting grass - he was found innocent by a court - eight months later!!!

Mainland Europeans think that we are a backward race; we're certainly a race with a large number of control freaks
taking advantage of no clear sensible instructions.

Year 2040

English media still spending many hours per day observing and reporting the fascinating democracy of the Americans (they speak English) selecting their national leader; whilst continuing to demonise any reforming English politician whom they suspect might have a brain. Meanwhile, Scotland with its own Prime Minister has continued to prosper as a full member of the European Union and has converted its' currency to the Euro.

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A European army

    A European army sounds sensible, as it takes some pressure off the Americans, and makes we Europeans take more responsibility for our continent. The conservative party here in the UK have opposed this in the past, the labour party has shown little interest and our media (The Sun Newspaper) worries that anything to do with the French will reveal how stupid that newspaper is with its little England policy. The European Union - being a more responsible assembly of nations, has proposed to the Americans that they could set up this complementary military force. The Americans think that this is a good idea; which makes one wonder once more, whether the UK will sit on the sidelines - or be instructed by America to participate.

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Euro-sceptics

    We are told by a millionaire supported euro- sceptic pressure group, that 65% of the people of the UK are in favour of a referendum as to whether or not to accept the European Constitution. A constitution which needs amending because of the large number of additional countries who have joined the European Union. We would suggest that 97% of the people in the UK haven't got a clue as to what is contained within that constitution or what parts our government has opted out of. If these time waster want a referendum we would suggest the following topics:
              1. Do the people of  the UK want a written constitution and a bill of rights for themselves
              2. Do the people of the UK want to join the Euro.
              3. Do the people of the UK want proportional representation to elect their local councillors and national MPs.
              4. Do the people of the UK want to keep their post-offices.
              5. Do the working class people in the UK want their pubs (social meeting places) played about with by central government weekend wine drinkers.

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Working in Paris
Thirty five hour working week with five weeks annual holidays and eleven bank holidays.
Two bedroom flat costs in rent approx. £700 per month.
Tube and bus pass costs £26 / month. (08)

09 - Fares on public transport in the UK are approx. 88% more than what the French pay.

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The Euro

It wasn't long after the Second World War that America had a huge recession. The value of the Dollar dropped like a brick and so to did the European gold reserves which were valued in dollars. This caused the French to start their campaign for a European currency whose value would be determined by the industry and financial expertise of the European people. Now in the UK, where our short-sighted people and politicians have opted out of joining the Euro, we find the value of the pound which has been a nice little earner for the 'city' boys, is becoming of less value when buying goods from our main market - Europe. What does this mean for UK citizens? - Higher prices for everything that is bought from the euro zone (our closest market), and a higher cost of holidaying there.
    2008 our 'Latin' taught leaders are still having a problem with the maths of joining the Euro. Meanwhile, fifteen of the twenty seven nations have joined.

Dyslexia

A teacher in the UK was taught thirty years ago a method of correcting dyslexia in some children's learning ability, and has been employing that skill successfully. Thirty years later - our government is still undecided as to the best method of correcting this problem, from which some children suffer; before putting teachers trained in dyslexia recognition and correction in all our schools. Meanwhile, while they dither, a large number of dyslexia suffering young adults, bored at school, have ended up in our prisons. One presumes that these ditherers have not checked our prisons, or, are in need of treatment themselves.

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Smoking again - if you want publicity - find something new about smoking - how has the old generation survived?

A professor in the UK has proposed to the 'Health England' (who no doubt advise the government) that people who smoke cigarettes should be forced to pay for a licence to smoke, costing £10 per year (initially). We would hope that the professor has worked out before this recommendation, that the stressed people smoking twenty cigarettes per day in this rip-off society are paying £5.60 or more for 20 cigarettes, that, times 365 days equals approx. £1300.00 per year: There are approx. 9,000,000 people in the UK who enjoy a cigarette, which makes a grand total of 12 billion pounds taken from their pockets. The government gets most of this, part to pay the professor her wages, and the rest, sufficient to pay for the Olympic Games in London or ten private hospitals for smokers per year. Perhaps the professor should engage herself in recommending that marathon runners have a licence requiring them to pay privately for their subsequent knee and hip joint replacements if, this increasing taxation on people who enjoy a cigarette is aimed at financing the National Health Service. Meanwhile, there is more reference to the smoking of cigarettes on our television i.e. by anti-smoking product manufactures and by the health service than there ever was when advertising of cigarettes was legal - could this advertising  be a reminder to smokers that they need a cigarette and subsequently maintain the nice little earner for both the government coffers and the anti-smoking product manufacturers.
    Additionally, this constant reference to smoke related deaths should take into account the toxic fumes being emitted from vehicles on our city streets.

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Three Prisoners Have Committed Suicide within three months in a Victorian type UK prison!

A new Austrian prison building is made of glass and laid out as an open plan office like structure. This building is surrounded by a secure park like compound into which prisoners can venture twenty four hours a day. The Austrians consider that this structure gives a greater feeling of space and reduces the stress on prisoners safely contained within it. They also believe that it makes the prisoners more positive about their lives after prison, more likely not to re-offend and is less likely to cause prisoners to commit suicide. Our government?? Well, it is intent on building three new large prisons, each with over two thousand inmates. We wonder whether these will be surrounded by machine gun armed watch towers, and in the American way, be run by two administrations, the warders rules and the prisoners rules, which inevitably exist within such large prisons. Internationally, the building of large prisons is considered an expensive way of punishing criminals; in that the released offenders invariably return to their neighbourhoods without any training or or skills to enable them to successfully integrate - they therefore re-offend. Only impoverished unimaginative brains would support the building of this type of prison.- carry on English administrators.

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Internet

A survey in Jan 08 of UK internet download speeds using cable, found, that the average was between 1.72Mb and 6.07Mb. One UK cable company advertises a brilliant download speed of 10Mb - the French download speed is 44Mb the Japanese is 90Mb. One can only presume that our British download speed is meant to match our queuing at petrol pumps, queuing at post offices, queuing at our hospitals and standing on overcrowded trains.

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Metric System (Sept 07)

Under pressure from the UK government, the European Union has allowed us to retain our archaic measurement system of 'chains', 'inches', 'miles' etc. One wonders why we have been teaching the metric system to our children - who have calculators based on it - when its practical application is being confused with an inferior alternative. One wonders what prat in our government has been talking to the European Union - what representative of the idiot branch of this society has been allowed to give his or her opinion: no doubt, as usual, quoting the general public of the UK as supporting their crazy conclusions. Could it be that our mathematically ignorant, 'arts' educated executives are intent on saving the cost of changing our road signs?
    How does the media treat this news? Channel 5 sends a reporter (who has problems with the metric system - god help us), to interview a person who has constantly opposed the changing of his weighing scales to metric. No doubt listening to his views we could bring back public hanging and the horse and cart.
        Finally, on a different media channel, a more enlightened market stall holder remarked 'having two prices and two measurements on goods is only confusing'.

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British Soldiers 07

If an British family was responsible for how their son or daughter should be honoured, when returning dead from an overseas battle zone - to which the British government and therefore the British people had sent them. They would ensure that great respect was displayed by the 'responsible society' during their son or any other families son or daughter's last journey, over the distance travelled by the hearse. No public respect is organised by our elected government representatives, and therefore, no respect is given by the provision of an escort by some of the Chief Constables of the different counties through which the hearse passes. So, who are these British representatives who will put on a fine display of police presence when the Queen dies, or even visits; but provide no public expression of thanks, compassion, or respect for our young (died for his/her country) British soldier? One can only presume that they, like so many administrators within our society these days are more interested in their own comfort or promotion, rather than taking the lead in displaying the decent side of our society - reflected in the massive unpaid voluntary sector which subsidies it.

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Some pubs in the UK are locking their doors at 11pm and having a private drink and smoking session for patrons.
 The nicotine police are very interested in these undemocratic behaviours - Heil Hitler
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NHS - the national 'black hole'.

Our local newspaper reports that a surgeon (not English) responsible for hip operations etc, in our National Health Service, has been able to cut his waiting list to zero by over-lapping operations to improve his efficiency. Despite being lauded by Tony Blair and called a local hero, his colleagues have decided not to adopt his system because financially it is not to their benefit. Apparently, the longer their waiting lists, the more private patients they are allowed to treat. The surgeon - an Italian - has decided to leave the National Health Service and take an appointment as chief surgeon in a Swiss hospital. He stated that "If you want to get rid of waiting lists you must require surgeons to take performance related pay". No doubt the hospital in Switzerland will be very efficient and our (nationalised) system will continue in its friendly (nice little earner) approach to doctors and surgeons.

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ID Cards

Twenty four out of twenty seven countries in the European Union have ID cards;
 enabling those governments and commercial retailers e.g. alcohol and cigarette suppliers,
 to identify their adults from their children
The UK so far, has given their cows ID cards as infected beef was not acceptable within the European Union.
Just possibly an ID card might reduce the imbibing of alcohol by UK children, and subsequently, the excess's
of our alcohol infected young adults, both in the UK and those travelling to mainland Europe.

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Education

Some employers state, that many of the NVQs (National Vocation Qualification) our sixteen year old school leavers have worked so hard for, are not worth the paper that they are written on. They want the young people to be able to write clearly and be competent at mathematics and reading. With these properly taught basic skills, the employers say that they will take over teaching of the youngsters in how to do the work that the young people have applied for.
        The governments answer - "We'll increase the school leaving age to eighteen"! What can you say about successive governments interfering in education when fifty years ago the young people leaving school at age fourteen had these basic abilities; which were of a sufficient standard for employers to take on most youngsters.
    Is it surprising that the UK education system isn't referred to in language books. Why? - because they would be out of date before they were written. Possibly a television 'soap' series, going on for generations could keep us up to date.

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Wind-farms

A nice little (subsidised by the tax payers) earner for those polluting our countryside, who intend to live abroad.

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A Confused Person

Giles Chichester MEP, one of our British representatives in the European parliament has succeeded in delaying indefinitely our complete conversion to the metric system; which should have taken place in 2009.  He wants the English to retain the Imperial System of measurement; proved in the past to be completely useless. However, one can understand this UK representative wishing to confuse our engineers - one of his associates in our parliament recommended the 'Hand' as the basic unit of measurement; having found it satisfactory for his horses. This may have been a joke, but it shows how seriously our bureaucrats take in the providing of a practical side to the metric system (e.g. change of road signs, labelling of food and liquids etc) when the theory of the metric system is being taught to the children in our schools.
    Additionally, having personally joined the RAF in the sixties, and having to learn the basics of Radar using both the Metric and Imperial System of measurement for examinations, the absence of metric practice and the playing around with (times twelve), or 1760 yards in a mile Imperial System, only caused confusion and delay which was completely unnecessary. We should have one measurement system, and the Metric System has been internationally, judged the best.
    Finally, one of Giles Chichester's arguments was that we, the English, shall be selling goods to America. If he looked at international agreements he would find, that America is also changing to the metric system of measurement. Perhaps he wants the English to be as confused as the Americans, when they in error used the Imperial system instead of the Metric system of measurement, to screw up one of their space programmes.

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Would the English people prefer a President elected by a majority of the people, or, members of our Royal Family to represent us in the world?
Without a referendum we will never know. But one mother interviewed during the last general election said
 "I would like my child to have an opportunity to be our President".

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Our Government

The Queen
Should stand to one side of our democracy and represent the Commonwealth, thus allowing the people to elect a  President. This frees up the Prime Minister to get on with his job of ensuring that the various ministers that he is responsible for in government are doing their jobs properly, and gives him more time to analyse what a majority of our people want when advocating changes..

House of Commons
With an elected House of Lords (Senate) The Parliament Act should be got rid of.

House of Lords.
We have some excellent people in our House of Lords, working very hard at their jobs of scrutinising the legislation being proposed by the House of Commons - ensuring that it does not conflict with our human rights or with previously passed laws. These people are invaluable.

However, the House of Lords is undemocratic in that the people serving the public there have not been elected by the public. To correct this:
    1. The House of Lords should be renamed The Senate.
    2. The Senate should consist of an Executive embodying two parts: Constitution Judges and Constitution Officers. Constitution Judges should be elected to it by The Law Society. Constitutional Officers should be elected by members of the Senate.
    3. The remaining seats in the Senate should be filled by people who have lived for at least five years in the county to which they present themselves for election as their prospective Senator.
    4. Minimum age for a senator is thirty, oldest - set by a doctor determining that the brain is still fully operational.

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Human Rights

UK government lawyers have either not had time or are not particularly interested in the European Convention on Human Rights. Six 'control orders' issued by the Secretary of State intended to put suspects under house arrest for 18 hours per day, have been judged by Justice Jeremy Sullivan as illegal; in that our Secretary of State had no power to make the orders and that they must therefore be quashed. To get as close as possible to breaking the European law on human rights our governments is reducing the incarceration period to 14 hours and appealing for this to be accepted. 'Incarceration' or imprisonment should only be a penalty for people who have been charged with an offence, irrespective of what our newspapers or other neurotics have to say.
    Nov 2007. Our right wing government is attempting to increase the holding of suspects in prison or 'incarceration' - without charge - from 28 to 42 days.
    June 2008. They have succeeded - by a small majority of MPs - nine of them from Ireland. We expect the House of Lords consisting of many mature people who have served in the last war for our freedoms, to throw out this proposed legislation.
    Feb 2009. Our government is told by the European Court of Human Rights to pay damages to the people who have been illegally incarcerated without trial.

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2008. Latest on a Written Constitution and a Bill of Rights / Responsibilies for the UK.
    Our Prime Minister is considering the introduction of a Written constitution and a Bill of Responsibilities - in twenty five years time (we are told by Jack Straw speaking in America). We notice that he says Responsibilities not Rights????? We would suggest that they just copy either the American or French constitutions. Writing our own is possibly too complicated for our privately educated politicians.
     Twenty five years! By then they'll have spy cameras inside all our toilets - today we have one spy camera for every fourteen people in the UK.- nearly a quarter of a million cameras. This expenditure is pretty sick when over 20,000 of our children are living here in poverty.

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Cigarette smoking kills? - Exclaimed an eighty year old cigarette smoking grandmother, peering at the label
 on her cigarette packet - "How long have I got?"

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Schooling in Britain after Years of a Socialist? Government

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development says the advantage of being educated at a private school in Britain is greater than in any country except Uruguay and Brazil.

This is because Britain's roughly 2,500 private schools select their pupils, are better funded, so class sizes are smaller than in state schools; they are therefore able to lure some of our best teachers with higher pay and lower stress.

By contrast, French and German private schools do not teach a wide curriculum but are specialists in various professions to which children might wish to engage, later in their education.

Our problem is that there is little incentive for a largely privately-educated ruling class of MP's to change the system.

The most affluent, articulate and influential people in society will do what they always do on education -- having made their private arrangements, they will avoid changing the system.

Answer: vote for a state educated candidate as your member of parliament.

Finally, there is no formal teaching of how politics work in the UK. No GCSE qualification and no 'A' level for state educated students. We believe that this situation has occurred, because in the past, our mainly right wing ruling class, were worried about some 'left wing' teachers expressing their views in our schools. 

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Home Office

 Our Home Secretary is advocating that 18 year olds should sign a pledge of allegiance to The Queen?
 We ask the question, 'What is The Queen, is she the custodian of the rights and responsibilities under which our 18 years old will be required to live up to, and if she is, what are these rights and responsibilities?' Secondly, as the Home Office has a bad habit of breaking the 'Human Rights Laws' we would suggest that these rights and responsibilities be written down so that we and they know what they are.

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Sixty percent of British parents feel too embarrassed to talk about sex to their young children.

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English Administration

 ‘When you take over responsibility for a system, change everything; change the name of departments, change the telephone numbers, change colours, change everything that can be changed. In this way, you will be the only one who knows how the system works and everyone else will have to relearn: making the workforces’ experience redundant and your own position enhanced’.

            This lazy method of taking control is seen in English history with privatization of our railways; were no advice was sort from British Rail, who had successfully run the national railways (with almost zero investment) for over a century and our first past the post electoral system results in - ‘all change’.

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Britain has the second longest working week in the EU -- after Latvia --

England and Wales has the highest imprisonment rate amongst western European  states
 and re-offending rates are also increasing

The UK has more people abusing drugs than any other country in the EU.

Televisions presentation of our MPs in parliament during debates, where they have to stand up
 to catch the Speaker's (Chairman's) eye in order to put their question, and then sit down if they don't,
high-lights how archaic our parliamentary system is, as the various MPs bounce up and down.
 No doubt this is how they did it in their great-grand parents private school debates - a couple of hundred years ago.

It's refreshing to see the more mature Scottish MPs in their parliament using an electronic button
to indicate to their chairman that they have a question to ask.

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Predictions of the results of an election in our newspapers should be banned one week before a general election. After all, they only have to publish a headline the night before we vote, such as, 'Landslide Victory for Labour' and people who hate landslide victories will either vote for a different party or not turn out to vote for Labour.

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Who could build a monument to Princess Diana that injures children?
Are they people who visualise nannies leading children safely along the waterway?
Without taking into consideration running costs the memorial has cost £5.2 million pounds.

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Europe                        Gadgets

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Tradesmen.

Royalty have always had ranks of status as it makes individuals valued in having a position in the pyramid of authority. This makes the pyramid very strong, as when attacked, the entire pyramid goes into repulse mode. The working people in this country had this clever means of setting responsibilities in the seventeenth century when they worked under trade masters; and subsequently, when they were engaged in working for wealthy people e.g. butler at the top, kitchen maid at the bottom.
        Householders have to use electrical engineers, plumbing engineers, builders etc. The government licence people to drive and to be bouncers in night clubs but allow anyone to advertise for work on or within households? If these trades’ people were required to have a licence (renewed and amended by their trade authority with their increased expertise, noted on their licence every two years) it would generate a pyramid of trade-persons whose status would be better identified by ordinary householders.
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Workers Rights

In France, French workers arrived for work in the morning to find that their English employers had vacated their factory, together with their equipment. Unfortunately for the English employers, what would be allowed in England was not acceptable in France were the employees have more rights than the employers. In the absence of the employers agreeing to terminate their workers employment as required by French law, the French government seized the employers assets, and from these paid the employees any wages they were owed, seventy percent of  their pay for six months to help them in finding a new job, and one months termination pay - must be nice to have a government that is on your side, instead of on the side of  management failures.
The English company is reported as saying, "Don't try to set up a small company in France". We agree with them, particularly if they are using monies screwed from employees left in the lurch in England.

2006. February. A UK employer has simply closed his factory. It's workers were given no warning. Right wing behaviour no doubt copied from our right wing government. New Labour? Right!!!

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The chief constable in Wales has recommended that all drugs should be legalised. Our view

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Immigration

There seem to be many people in this country who oppose any migration from other countries to this. This seems strange when our people have for various reasons emigrated to Africa, America, India in fact almost every country in the world. People moving abroad are directed to 'ex-pats' who have moved there many years before. We have 200,000 pensioners living just in mainland Europe. We have exported thousands of 'criminals' for stealing bread etc to Australia and the Irish left in their thousands for America as our English administrators had no answer to their potato famine.
One wonders who is brainwashing who in this country. Do we really believe that the people wishing to come here from the extended European Union are coming for handouts - only an idiot or a poorly educated person would presume that they also are lacking in intelligence.
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The United States of America - a very rich association.
 The United States of Europe - ??????????????????? give us three hundred years if the UK is involved.

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Windy?
At the height of the gale, the harbourmaster radioed a coastguard on the spot and asked him to estimate the wind speed. He replied that he didn't have a gauge. However, if it was of any help, the wind had just blown his Land Rover off the cliff. (Aberdeen Evening Express)

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Airports

The Government has constantly fought the people living near Stansted airport. The original choice of location for the airport was either Maplin Sands on the coast or Stansted. A person concerned with our peoples' environment would have chosen Maplin Sands (where at least two runways would have had aircraft taking off or landing over the sea). It was obvious to thinking people that Stansted (an inland airport) if selected would have to become bigger and bigger.

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You have to respect our aristocracy, they still own more land than the rest of the UK's people put together.

Survival

Never say "I am in love with you" to a person until you make that person a friend with whom you can discuss your most intimate secrets, and feel confident that they are telling you theirs. Once you have achieved this, you must still  maintain your own interests and a percentage of independence to fall back on, just in case you lose your 'love' (by 'fair means or foul!'). Subsequently, you have to be aware that every new day makes your partner different; therefore, you have to continually update your knowledge of him or her to stay in contact and still be able to re-state 'I love you'.

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A Whiff of Gas.
Commenting on a complaint from a Mr Arthur Purdey about a large gas bill, a spokesman for North West Gas said, "We agree it was rather high for the time of year. It's possible Mr Purdey has been charged for the gas used up during the explosion that destroyed his house."   (The Daily Telegraph)

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Freedoms? - Having recently spent money on the telephone booking a quantity of Euros for a holiday in my European continent, and subsequently having had to shop around the banks to obtain the best exchange rate for the Euros which I had brought home, I wonder if this exercise is considered by the government, or banks, as more lucrative for them in removing money from my pocket than the alternative of joining the Euro.

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Efficiency?

150 million clocks have to be changed in the UK twice every year. If it takes 30 seconds per clock, The English people at 8 hrs / working day will use approximately 312,500 working days to do this! The Scottish people in opposing any alternative, prefer to inconvenience the English by voting against any change; rather than send their children to school an hour later during the winter.

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What's the difference between a girlfriend and a wife? About 45 lbs.

Fairness? - A pensioner observes, that, having driven his car for only 500 hundred miles this year he's paying road tax at approximately 45p per mile as compared with a motorist driving 10,000 miles per year wearing out our roads is paying only1.8p per mile.
     He believe that the road tax should be included in the price of petrol. However, the government when it needs money, prefers to put up the cost of road tax, it's not as controversial as putting up the price of petrol or income tax.

Am I Hot or Not - shows photos of various people and asks you to rate them from 1 to 10. You can participate.

Points of View - more?

What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 45 minutes.

Information about The European Union

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