It is embarrassing for the legal process in this country that a woman has to take the ashes of her dead son to a Magistrates’ Court to prove that he could not have committed a minor administrative offence. The Daily Mail reports: “Grieving mother brings son’s ashes to court after the DVLA insist on prosecuting him TWO YEARS after he died.”
Not content with the plan to monitor all our emails, skype and other VOIP calls, visits to internet sites and telephone calls, the government seems now to want to deploy airport style scanners capable of showing our naked bodies. The good news is – the government will blur our faces (to cover the eventuality that when they lose all this data as is almost inevitable, no-one will be recognisable. The bad news is that they won’t be blurring genitalia.)
The Daily Mail has the story: “Cheryl Johnson, general manager of the Office of Transport Security, said:’ It will show the private parts of people, but what we’ve decided is that we’re not going to blur those out, because it severely limits the detection capabilities.”
It looks as if the hyperventilators will be back on our TV screens. Shares fell through the floor. Banks may be sorted, but now the biger problem is, of course, the recession – and investors are moving out. BBC It won’t be long, some say, before house prices face a further 15-20% fall and Insurance companies need bailing out.
And… we can’t even afford a Hamlet cigar in a public place to soothe our furrowed brows…. Ah well. Back to the future.
And finally….. a thought from the world of finance and economics – Bearwatch: “Bear market rallies… where pros sell to amateurs who then panic, allowing pros to pick up at an even lower price.”
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There is some good news: “A drunk pony was rescued from a swimming pool after gorging on fermented apples and falling into the water. The pony, called Fat Boy, broke in to Sarah Penhaligon’s garden in Newquay, Cornwall, to get to the fruit, which had fallen from trees.He ate so many apples that he became confused.”
Good lord just how many people must have been involved in the DVLA decision to take the the matter to Court?
Muppets.
The only word for it.
ReHoused… quite a few as we both know.
All very well firing bankers…. but how do these people hold down jobs?
Unfortunately it boils down to the same old thing.
No one takes any responsibility for anything anymore.
Having worked in a Local Authority myself I believe that you have to be beyond incompetent to get the sack.
From my experience the amount of money wasted by incompentent workers is simply shocking.
Rumour has it that those fine defenders of liberty and freedom, Citizen Smith and Comrade Get a Hoon, plan to reform the criminal law so that the dead can indeed be prosecuted.
This may include all those offences they might have committed had they lived long enough as well as those they may have consider committing whilst they were still alive.
Government actuaries will work in conjunction with the security services to determine the likelihood of a particular individual committing certain types of offences on the assumption that he or she has an average lifespan.
It is thought that this will boost the number of convictions, leave prison populations stable, improve detection rates and also act as a deterrent to those who would die before their case comes to court.