let's fix Britain!

"NEW rules which restrict movements of pigeons in the wake of the bird flu outbreak could spell the death of cross-Channel racing, an expert fancier claimed today."
http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/local/display.var.1395865.0.0.php

More political madness! How exactly do they plan to quarantine the thousands of migrating geese? Not to mention warblers, swifts, martins and swallows, Bewick and Whooper swans, to name just a few. Pigeon racing is a tiny proportion of bird movement in relation to what happens naturally.

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2519036.ece

In this article there are references to blog activity that suggest that as the father is a cardiologist he should have known better than to leave his daughter in a bedroom where she could be abducted. What ignorant class hatered this betrays. Do we all have to behave ALL THE TIME as if our children are about to be imminently abducted? How unsympathetic can people be? Let us hope that the girl is found soon and that the Portuguese authorities learn important lessons for the future.

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/local/display.var.1384417.0.0.php

Littlemoor enters competition for best village.

I support Malcolm and his team. I support anybody who tries to support improvement to their community. Readers must look at the aims of this contest which are in the last two lines of the artice -
"He added that the aim of the best village category was to highlight efforts in improving the community by a number of methods.

These include conservation, enhancing the environment, stimulating village life and caring for all inhabitants."

i.e. It is not for the best village but for the most improved. I do, however, consider that Littlemoor is a village, in the generally accepted sense of the term, only by a considerable stretch of the imagination. It has also appeared to me to be occasionally threatening and unsafe. But these are factors that need to be, and can be, sorted out. Best of luck. If you can fix Littlemoor it is one more step on the way to fixing Britain.

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/local/display.var.1383629.0.0.php

This looks like another "social engineering" project from Red Central Quote: "It's a brilliant idea. Down here we are by and large Anglo Saxon Christians and students don't get exposure to different ways of life and thinking about what's important." I thought that was because we are primarily an Anglo Saxon country. And the last time I looked the established religion was the Church of England (although many people do not consider themselves Christian). And what is meant by "thinking what's important?"
Quote "They need to be prepared, with the influx of people from all parts of the world because of the Olympics. It's going to raise all sorts of issues." Is this suggesting that if we don't let kids communicate or exchange with these other schools then there are going to be unspecified problems with the acceptance of people from different backgrounds at the Olympics? What are "the issues"?

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/local/display.var.1384417.0.0.php

Littlemoor enters competition for best village.

I support Malcolm and his team. I support anybody who tries to support improvement to their community. Readers must look at the aims of this contest which are in the last two lines of the artice -
"He added that the aim of the best village category was to highlight efforts in improving the community by a number of methods.

These include conservation, enhancing the environment, stimulating village life and caring for all inhabitants."

i.e. It is not for the best village but for the most improved. I do, however, consider that Littlemoor is a village, in the generally accepted sense of the term, only by a considerable stretch of the imagination. It has also appeared to me to be occasionally threatening and unsafe. But these are factors that need to be, and can be, sorted out. Best of luck. If you can fix Littlemoor it is one more step on the way to fixing Britain.

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/local/display.var.1384362.0.ministers_use_loaves_to_save_british_bread.php

The general will of the British people is to retain Imperial measures. And that should be an end to it. Nonsense such as this coming from the EU should be regarded with suspicion and treated with ridicule. It appears more like something from Comecon than anything else. All it does is fuel anti-EU sentiment, already at high levels. The much cited argument that it would be easier for business is a fallacy. A calculator will work things out in an instant.

From The Echo.

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/display.var.1384462.0.dorset_crime_on_the_decline.php

Statistics claim crime in Dorset is down.
Firstly, don't blame the police for crime - it is the criminal justice system which lets criminals off, or out of prison, to reoffend. Secondly, I am highly sceptical of the figures as it just does not seem to reflect what I see and hear. Just look at the pages of The Echo. Even if crime is down, it is not down enough for us to make any celebration out of it - there are still far too many victims. Quote from The Echo : "The end-of year results are being promoted in a publicity campaign funded by some of the cash seized under the Proceeds of Crime Act." In other words paid for out of Council Tax! Instead of obtaining money that can be offset against next year's tax they are squandering it!

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From The Echo.

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/display.var.1384462.0.dorset_crime_on_the_decline.php

Statistics claim crime in Dorset is down.
Firstly, don't blame the police for crime - it is the criminal justice system which lets criminals off, or out of prison, to reoffend. Secondly, I am highly sceptical of the figures as it just does not seem to reflect what I see and hear. Just look at the pages of The Echo. Even if crime is down, it is not down enough for us to make any celebration out of it - there are still far too many victims. Quote from The Echo : "The end-of year results are being promoted in a publicity campaign funded by some of the cash seized under the Proceeds of Crime Act." In other words paid for out of Council Tax! Instead of obtaining money that can be offset against next year's tax they are squandering it!

dorsetpoliticalcomment.blog.co.uk

I cannot believe that there are such misguided individuals out there who actually believe that things can only get better under Gordon Red Brown after Tony Bliar resigns. Let me suggest that things could in fact get very much worse! How much tax did the Taxman take in that Beatles song? We are getting there. And the rest..... As Brown cannot work in a team he has to develop his version of The Cult of The Individual. And already we are starting to see the dancing around the golden calf, as in Poussin's painting mocking the worshiping of false idols.

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/jackie_ashley/2007/05/things_can_only_get_better_for.html

I cannot believe that there are such misguided individuals out there who actually believe that things can only get better under Gordon Red Brown after Tony Bliar resigns. Let me suggest that things could in fact get very much worse! How much tax did the Taxman take in that Beatles song? We are getting there. And the rest..... As Brown cannot work in a team he has to develop his version of The Cult of The Individual. And already we are starting to see the dancing around the golden calf, as in Poussin's painting mocking the worshiping of false idols.

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/jackie_ashley/2007/05/things_can_only_get_better_for.html

Who would have thought it? The pigtarts debacle for trading standards is turning into a national issue. Please visit the link below to see what is going on! Maybe if it becomes big enough change may be effected! Let us make "pigtarts" a byword for the rule of common sense over official stupidity and overblown political correctness. Let it be known that the public and businesses will expose to ridicule such decisions that invite it. At the same time we recognise that we need trading standards ; but we need trading standards run by a team that we can respect and in whose decisions we as a community can agree with. This is not a local issue but a national one and one that any citizen of our once, and yet to be again, great nation must engage with. It also goes well beyond trading standards. Either we start to regain control or we just give up and let the mad currents of a swirling sea direct our rudder. It is up to us.

http://pigtarts.blogspot.com/