Jobsworths

hil26 · Jobsworths

What a farce

http://www.amateurphotographer.co...paedophile_fears_news_264091.html

flapjack · beyond belief

an EMPTY paddling pool! I think the jobsworth should be sacked!

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Oh God! Wake up, have a cuppa and some breakfast and ENGAGE BRAIN! Mad

derek

it must be the heat getting to everyone in authority.

Bloke fined for smoking in his "workplace" van

Shopkeeper ran out of the designated colour bin bags (grey) so dared to use black ones and were visited in their shop while customers were there and severely reprimanded as well as being fined £300

Bloke re-enacting a Nelson battle required to wear a lifejacket!

Soldier in Iraq dressed in full body armour sent in a JCB to dig soil testing hole - told he must wear a hi-vis vest!

We were warned on the menu of a teashop today that hot food and drink can be hot when served so please exercise caution AND be careful!

I'm so sorry for that poor old lady - probably enjoying a new hobby and now won't pick the camera up again.

Wolfie Smith and "little black book" spring to mind. Power to the People. lol

flapjack · jobsworths everywhere!

I went to do my usual dance practice in the gym studio room. The Centre Manager has given me permission to use the studio twice a week. The Duty manager (who was new) barged in and told me I couldnt use the room unsupervised because I was using 'equipment'. I asked her if she could please supply me with a safety net for using the sound system. laughing8

Oh and on a different note - I find strawberries are very sexy fruit. Will I be arrested for photographing them laughing8

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derek · Re: jobsworths everywhere!

derek · the one show

about 1. min into the the show. all about taking photos in public places

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00cwg2s/

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This is something I care passionately about so this might be a rant, though I am trying to restrain myself.

The Magna Carta, which still is the blueprint of law in the UK, established in perpetuity the right of the individual (the term was 'Freemen') to roam the land without let or hindrance and, if caught in a wrong doing, the right to trial by a jury of ones peers.

Both the right to roam and the right to trial by jury are what have been systematically eroded for many years now. Asbos, if for no other reason, should never have seen the light of day because they circumvent the law and the right to a trial of any description, let alone a fair one by a jury of ones peers.

I wrote to Hazel Blears when they started the whole terrorist scam saying that if the government and the media were going to raise terrorism as an issue, then they were also duty bound to present credible evidence that a threat existed. If an academic or scientist produced a piece of work without presenting credible evidence for whatever their assertion is, they would be discredited, and quite right too. Hazel Blears didn't bother to even reply to me.

The war in Iraq (this is relevant) was and is illegal under the terms of the Nuremberg trials, if for no other reason, yet it still rumbles murderously onwards and the perpetrators of that war are still at large and their opinions are still given credit with no body of evidence to back their claims.

The media have abandoned investigative reporting for sensationalism and are complicit in the erosion of our civil liberties. If you say something loud enough and long enough people begin to believe it, which is exactly how the media behaves these days.

It isn't just that common sense has become a thing of the past, it is also that people do not look at the bigger picture, the context, the background, the history of things that are occurring. I question the role of television in all this. Because it is necessary to create punchy, lively programmes, everything is reduced to bite sized chunks, and because it is presented in a professional way through technological means, it is given far more blind credit than it deserves.

All this and so much more have created a climate of fear, and a fearful people is a controlled people.

I believe it is my duty and my right to challenge all this stuff, I take it personally because it affects me personally, every day. A revolution is long overdue, but it doesn't have to be a bloody uprising, all it requires is that we resist, where ever possible, the influences that are being brought against us to make us fear. That resistance is something I encourage when ever and where ever possible. It also raises the issue that I am putting myself at risk in resisting, which I freely accept. As Thoreau said, 'Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.' I don't like it, but I like even less the erosion of my freedom and civil liberties.

Link to the argument against ID cards which are still lurking in the cupboard.
http://www.freedom-central.net/idcards.html

hil26

Keith, that is better said than I could have managed and I do totally agree.

Every person who does not vote, cannot complain - I have a number in my family that do not vote, yet have the audacity to complain about what is going on in this country. I have told them I will not join in their debates until they have voted - I do not wish to know their political views.

The silent majority needs to start shouting, and loud.

As for Iraq and Tony bLIAR, nuff said.........

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Thanks Dave, people have been so eroded and worn down by scare tactics that they have forgotten their innate power and the right to exert it. Sometimes it gets uncomfortable, sure, but hell, life gets pretty uncomfortable at times anyway. When the silent majority wake up, I hope and pray it isn't too late.

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Oddly enough, I had a strange experience the other night where I evaded the Police not quite by accident.

They followed me from Bath for about four miles and then overtook me but were still just ahead for another three miles. The road becomes a duel carriageway about half a mile before I turn right on a roundabout into my Village, which also has a feed lane for people staying on the duel carriageway. I was in the right hand lane approaching the roundabout when they blue lighted me and put on their left indicator. As I was just pulling alongside of them I kept going and they had no option but to carry on the bypass feeder lane.

I did this for two reasons, firstly, although it has become common practice in this area to stop people and spot check them, they have no legal right to do so. I knew I had done nothing wrong and my car is completely legal so I felt no compulsion to comply. Secondly, to follow me for that long and attempt to stop me approaching a roundabout was plain stupid and dangerous and it pissed me off. There were many more appropriate places they could have stopped me.

The end of the story though is that my neighbour was outside yesterday as I pulled in and told me one of my brake lights was out. I replaced it straight away and I guess that's what the blue light was about. Which makes their delay in pulling me over even stranger as they did, in fact, have a right to and I'd have been grateful for being told a brake light had failed.

Jobsworths

beyond belief

jobsworths everywhere!

Re: jobsworths everywhere!

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