What a brilliant report...

"What is really criminal? The way our "leaders" let thugs walk free

The crevasse between people and politicians is matched by a bottomless chasm between official figures and the truth about life in modern Britain.

Like all ruling castes in the grip of dogma, the Government responds to trouble by pretending it doesn’t exist.

There’s an economic boom that leaves most people feeling poorer, and lots of new jobs that turn out to be empty self-employment.

There’s a massacre of unborn babies that conceals the utter collapse of sexual restraint and responsibility. Even the dwindling marriage figures are artificially boosted by people faking wedlock to get citizenship.

There are schools whose victims walk away dazed after 11 years in full-time ‘education’, barely able to read or count the sheaves of alleged qualifications with which they have been issued.

Some of them are then persuaded to go deep into debt to attend grandiose ‘universities’ which will at least keep them out of the jobless figures for another three years.

And then there’s crime. The simplest way to reduce this is to decide that lots of crimes aren’t crimes any more, so the police stop trying to prevent them and they become normal. Then, you fiddle the figures – until the fiddles are exposed.

Now, a new form of deception is being employed. It is called ‘Out Of Court Disposal’, and it’s just a way of magically making crime disappear by not doing anything to the people who commit it.

In some police areas almost half of crimes are dealt with in this way. The lowest figure is 26 per cent – a minimum of a quarter of all reported crime, swept under the carpet and unpunished, throughout the country.

Generally that means the transgressor gets a ‘caution’ or some other vacuous non-penalty. More than 7,000 of the offences written off in this offhand way last year involved violence. There were 82 robberies and 20 rapes."

...courtesy of Peter Hitchens.

You'd make a great Lib-Dem cover-up spin doctor, attack the messenger & not the message...shades of Stalin!

Now that's a good question Sahib!

What some MP's will do to save themselves a few quid

Politics Live
08:46: 'Wrong job, wrong man' BBC Radio 4 Today
Oliver Miles, the former British Ambassador to Tripoli told Radio 4's Today programme Tony Blair should stand down as an envoy for the Quartet of Middle East peace negotiators. "I am told that he has achieved something trying to develop the Palestinian economy," he said. When pressed by presenter John Humphrys that Mr Blair might be given a "wider role", Mr Miles said: "He is a convenient excuse for doing nothing... Tony Blair has achieved very, very little." He is the "wrong man in the wrong job," he added.

How about telling the listeners something they didn't know :-)

Hey George...
...you sure it's not your mother-in-law doing the sums?

A comment posted on the 1st link hits home nicely...

"Just KICK the Drivers CPC Into Touch and This Country would have an Abundance of Professional Lorry Drivers returning to the Wheel!

Just Why will the 'Idiocy Collective 'of Ministers (Who Think that THEY Know Better) involved not understand that the DCPC Means Nothing, Does Nothing, Achieves Nothing BUT Costs Employers and Drivers a Small fortune??

Qualified Lorry Drivers are Just That; QUALIFIED! No Ridiculous 'Add-Ons' will make the slightest bit of difference!
Here again we see how Our Gov't kowtow to an E.U. Request/Order/ DIRECTIVE(YOU WILL) without questioning or any thought as to how it would 'AND HAS' affected the U.K's Transport Infrastructure to the point where we now have Very Few 'Qualified Drivers left!

Is there ANY MINISTER OUT THERE who has Compelling Evidence that the DCPC has had a Positive Reduction in LGV related accidents? No, I thought not!"

Is this where the "Emergency funding" is coming from Georgey Porgey?

What did anyone expect?
DCPC

For someone that hates us "blue collar" workers in the transport industry, providing links such as you do & bearing in mind your political affiliations, just what are your views on this?

Every professional driver earning their living in charge of HGV or PSV on the roads must of course be professionally trained, and perodically re-tested to confirm capability. I don't have enough knowledge to know whether the DCPC regs are the best way of doing that. The EU thinks it is, the industry has doubts. I would even call for car drivers to be re-tested every 5 years after age 70.

For someone in previous posts that compared White Van Man to a HGV, the underlined comment is refreshing, but does make one wonder with all your previous comments regarding the transport industry.

As for entrenched attitudes, do not make the mistake that others have the same attitude as yourself. This is the 21st century, not the Victorian era.

As for the dCPC, it is nothing but a means to provide jobs for bureaucrats & a waste of money. It is also open to un-necessary bureaucratic abuse as seen in your link - A "Cycle Awareness" module? At £50 per module, a nice little cashcow for the government - is that money getting spent on Road Maintenance? I believe the best remark regarding HGV's was stated in the "Transportation Safety" thread...

..."If you can't see my mirrors, I can't see you". To really understand the stupidity of road users where HGV's are concerned, Google "M621 Leeds crash 2010".

My Mistake :-( The dCPC has increased it's now £70 per 7 hrs (not £50 per module - but I would not be surprised in the least should it become "per module")

dCPC Requirements

a 35 hour course every 5 years but to offset the downtime for all drivers, it can be done 1x 7hrs per year.

Currently it has 12 modules

1a) Driver's Hours and Working Time Directive
1b) Digital Tachographs
1c) Analogue Tachographs
2a) Vehicle And Load Handling Systems
2b) Safe Vehicle Loading
2c) Manual Handling
3a) Safe and Economic Driving
3b) Safe Economic & Defensive Driving
3c) Rural and Urban Driving
4a) Health and Safety in Transport
4b) Personal Well-being
5a) Company Procedures & Secure Transport Operations

Quite a few providers also offer a "voluntary" module - first aid, personally I think this should be a compulsory part of the dCPC instead of 5a. What a training provider is doing providing that module when the transport company provides that anyway...

It really is time that people woke up & smelt the roses!

Just what is wrong with you Yanks...

Pledge receives apologies

...shouldn't you have been proud that immigrants pledge their allegiance to you? WHY does it have to be in English?

A pledge is a pledge regardless of language!

It really is time that people woke up & smelt the roses!

Just what is wrong with you Yanks...

Pledge receives apologies

...shouldn't you have been proud that immigrants pledge their allegiance to you? WHY does it have to be in English?

A pledge is a pledge regardless of language!

There are still primitives who persist in the west, and western culture will not be worth saving as long as they exist.

What makes Western civilization worth saving is the freedom of the mind; now under heavy attack from the primitives...who have persisted among us. If we have not the courage to defend that faith, it won't matter much whether we are saved or not.
---Elmer Davis, But We Were Born Free; 1954

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6 unanswered questions

It should be 7.

"Who gets to decide?"

William Ernest Henley. 1849–1903

844. England, My England

WHAT have I done for you,
England, my England?
What is there I would not do,
England, my own?
With your glorious eyes austere, 5
As the Lord were walking near,
Whispering terrible things and dear
As the Song on your bugles blown,
England—
Round the world on your bugles blown! 10

Where shall the watchful sun,
England, my England,
Match the master-work you've done,
England, my own?
When shall he rejoice agen 15
Such a breed of mighty men
As come forward, one to ten,
To the Song on your bugles blown,
England—
Down the years on your bugles blown? 20

Ever the faith endures,
England, my England:—
'Take and break us: we are yours,
England, my own!
Life is good, and joy runs high 25
Between English earth and sky:
Death is death; but we shall die
To the Song on your bugles blown,
England—
To the stars on your bugles blown!' 30

They call you proud and hard,
England, my England:
You with worlds to watch and ward,
England, my own!
You whose mail'd hand keeps the keys 35
Of such teeming destinies,
You could know nor dread nor ease
Were the Song on your bugles blown,
England,
Round the Pit on your bugles blown! 40

Mother of Ships whose might,
England, my England,
Is the fierce old Sea's delight,
England, my own,
Chosen daughter of the Lord, 45
Spouse-in-Chief of the ancient Sword,
There 's the menace of the Word
In the Song on your bugles blown,
England—
Out of heaven on your bugles blown! 50

Don't feel the above is applicable today, I wonder why.

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The Kite Fliers

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Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet
belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes.

Would the "Untouchables" remain untouched in today's society?

It's already been said that "it's only a few", unfortunately it only takes one!

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Oops...

Saw this coming months ago :-)

What's that old saying?

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it"

It's also about time that "Parking Attendants" returned to being "Traffic Wardens" & controlled by the police...

"Please stop calling them "Traffic Wardens" these were employed by the police and were trained in point duty, first aid as well as issuing tickets, we no longer have traffic wardens when responsibility was handed to local authorities they just became "Parking attendants" with the operative word being parking without any other authority."

Common sense lost or missing?

I have a grinder with a carbide blade that i know from past experience cuts through padlocks like butter, might start carrying it around.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

A rare thing - A sensible report

Unfortunately, there is always something that interrupts sense...

If we win - You're not getting the same opportunity as I did

Ukip would cut tax for the poorest workers and the hard-pressed middle classes. The party undertakes to reduce immigration - which is what the vast majority of the electorate wants - while pointing out honestly that this can’t be done unless we leave the EU and regain control of our borders. An early in-out referendum is promised.

Are Ukip for real?
Yes and Sverige demokraterna (Sweden Demokrats) SD have the same pledges...

Ukip would cut tax for the poorest workers and the hard-pressed middle classes. The party undertakes to reduce immigration - which is what the vast majority of the electorate wants - while pointing out honestly that this can’t be done unless we leave the EU and regain control of our borders. An early in-out referendum is promised.

Are Ukip for real?
Yes and Sverige demokraterna (Sweden Demokrats) SD have the same pledges...

Debatable I suppose, but Labour sure is!

As for this guy? Not sure :-)

"The Liberal Democrats will add a heart to a Conservative government and a brain to a Labour one"

Well after his turnabout over tuition fees, I doubt if students will think that, as for the other, well, sometimes politicians do get it right :-)

Even worse is that he's running scared...

BluKip "a very real danger"

No! Tell me they cannot be serious!

"Foreign aid at risk from theft, corruption and fraud, official report claims."

Del-boy orders probe into foreign aid corruption

No! Tell me they cannot be serious!

"Foreign aid at risk from theft, corruption and fraud, official report claims."

Del-boy orders probe into foreign aid corruption

I suppose it will be to much to hope that something positive will come out of this, like perhaps the aid actually getting to the people it was meant for, or am I wishing for too much?

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