tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910609762453184627.post8967091915916962089..comments2023-12-28T09:22:34.081+00:00Comments on They're Joking. Aren't They?: A taste of ParadiseNorth Northwesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10990919627286136085noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910609762453184627.post-61335089027187925422009-11-15T07:52:14.942+00:002009-11-15T07:52:14.942+00:00Wow Julia, the comments to that post say it all, d...Wow Julia, the comments to that post say it all, don't they? <br />Once upon a time (and not so long ago) it would have been instinctive for most members of the public to want to help the police - at least to the extent of calling such an incident in for someone to investigate. Now - well, I don't suppose even a decent citizen with a few beers and more inside him contemplates spending the end of a Saturday night out at the cop shop, perhaps explaining that his mobile call was a report rather than a confession, as a fun thing to do, or frankly worth it.<br />'Lessons will be learned' and 'they never learn' aren't so far apart these days.North Northwesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10990919627286136085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910609762453184627.post-880493815821395352009-11-14T08:46:09.571+00:002009-11-14T08:46:09.571+00:00Turnabout is fair play, as they saying goes... ;)
...<a href="http://www.thisisexeter.co.uk/news/Police-let-public-unwilling-reveal-car-vandals/article-1512745-detail/article.html" rel="nofollow">Turnabout is fair play</a>, as they saying goes... ;)<br /><br />This is what the police can expect if they carry on in the same vein as they have been doing. Someone needds to have a word in little PC Delicate's ear about how she and her colleagues are beginning to be viewed.JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910609762453184627.post-30948199835330302462009-11-14T08:03:25.727+00:002009-11-14T08:03:25.727+00:00BGBG, thanks once more.
Yes, I think that there&#...BGBG, thanks once more. <br />Yes, I think that there's another point here - if the United Left and their Quislings and appeasers in the so-called private sector persist in treating us like children, and then variously allow others they are supposed to be helping to neglect to death or abort real children, it shows at the very least an epic sense of proportion malfunction. <br />You stay away from them uncovered English water cups, John Book.<br /><br />GCooper.<br /><br />Yes: we UKIP types are a real party now, aren't we - with our own corrupt, disgraced, embezzling MEPs? Though I note that ours is gone and the Westminster pickpockets are still there. I have to say what needs to be done isn't a one-election problem, nor is it purely political in the old sense of competing parties with distinct agendas to choose from [I wish!]. We need to practise ideological ju-jitsu against our foes here. They have long preached that the personal is the political, and they are correct. As we live, as we talk to our friends and acquaintances and especially as we act whilst no-one is watching it can move the world towards one more like what we want. If all those 'satirists' and 'social commentators' and Arts Council funded traitors inspired [read 'tempted'] young people to sneer at authority, to behave contemptuously towards good manners and good faith like everlasting adolescents, then we can reinforce the morals and practises that we have inherited, and hold onto them, if we act courteously, cheerfully, and honestly in the face of all that subterfuge and (self)delusion. They've been at it for decades, and so must we be. So I refuse offers to buy rip-off DVDs and I won't buy Ben and Jerry's ice cream or download films without paying for them, or undercut other cars on the motorway, etc, and I let people know why I do so. Politics is the personal. Yes, I come over as pompous and a goody-goody [analyse THAT phrase and examine who uses it the most!], and I'm a million miles from being perfect myself and I know it. But in Hell a simple act of kindness is a revolutionary act. <br />So there's UKIP, and posting here at TJAT five times a week , and pressure groups such as <a href="http://albionalliance.org.uk/" rel="nofollow">this</a> here at the new Albion Alliance and letting my colleagues know, when I can get a word in, that the whacky world of benefits is bonkers BECAUSE it's the whacky world of benefits... and by the way who bankrupted the joint in the first place anyway? The personal is the political, and as there's so many of the buggers, it's not like we're short of a target or two, is it?<br /><br />And you've got me started on the communist thing again. Hmm, that's a good idea for another post... <br /><br />I never said that stealing was NEVER justified.North Northwesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10990919627286136085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910609762453184627.post-53803748578057283282009-11-14T07:29:40.352+00:002009-11-14T07:29:40.352+00:00Thanks James, but move Mrs. NW away from her fan b...Thanks James, but move Mrs. NW away from her fan base? I don't think so!<br />Well done on the Albion Alliance thing; I think it's a great idea. Guerilla democracy, and all that.<br />Cunningly disguised post in its support on the way...North Northwesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10990919627286136085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910609762453184627.post-47490174262270605312009-11-13T17:57:35.118+00:002009-11-13T17:57:35.118+00:00You poor sod - shift house over our way and all wi...You poor sod - shift house over our way and all will be well.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910609762453184627.post-36984123827413620132009-11-13T13:00:46.429+00:002009-11-13T13:00:46.429+00:00As you know, NNW, I support the UKIP too - though ...As you know, NNW, I support the UKIP too - though I have to say without much hope of a significant outcome - and possibly, in the light of some of the darker hints dropped by Dr North over on EU Referendum, not with much hope of change, even if they pulled off a miracle win.<br /><br />The Spectator/Mail piece on Soviet infiltration was particularly interesting in this respect, not least because of the naming of serving cabinet ministers. <br /><br />I used to scoff at the Denis Wheatley school of 'it's all a Communist plot'. I'm not quite so sure now.GCoopernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910609762453184627.post-3079807894762506352009-11-13T12:43:35.319+00:002009-11-13T12:43:35.319+00:00Good post - yes, frightening, isn't it NNW?
D...Good post - yes, frightening, isn't it NNW?<br /><br />Dick Puddlecote's blog has an article about an ex-soldier handing in a sawn-off shotgun that he found in his garden to the police, they promtly arrested him and then he was jailed under a trial by jury - something normally reserved for South American countries, not old Blighty.<br /><br />This insanity is not exclusively reserved for the public sector, it's private as well. One of my client, a large blue multinational, has HSE signs everywhere stating that you cannot walk around the office with plastic cups of water - they must be sealed with a lid.<br /><br />Also, it is now mandatory to hold onto the handrails while traversing a set of stairs.<br /><br />When told by this by my contact (we're good friends) I, not being classified under the genus of PC invertebrate, simply said: "Do I look like a retard, John?"<br /><br />It is all so scary. Although everyone complains about this creeping authoritarianism, they simply shrug their shoulders and carry on. Very dangerous, it will end in tears. And bloody revolution.Beware of Geeks bearing GIFshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01593142105719207212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910609762453184627.post-62098561508440351932009-11-13T09:59:14.915+00:002009-11-13T09:59:14.915+00:00Thanks GC. Nothing new to our little circle of blo...Thanks GC. Nothing new to our little circle of bloggers and commenters, but still there's something to the habit of saying the truth over and over. It keeps eyes on the prize, and helps us keep the faith. That's what propaganda means. And for me at least, that's the answer. New Labour and the crossbench political class didn't spring unbidden from Tony Blair's forehead: ready to destroy our constitution, ancient freedoms, and the nation. It was the result of years of attacking our country and culture in little bits whenever and wherever the opportunity arose. From kitchen sink dramas to the subtle and not too subtle subversiveness of the Sixties politician satire programmes, through the authority-loathing Monty Python and O What A Lovely War, generations of Britons have learned to despise this country and the habits of mind and speech and manners that reinforced and reproduced the good government principles that grew out of Magna Carta, the Glorious Revolution, the Scottish Enlightenment, Victorian public service and civic pride, and so on.<br />So there's no single party or aspect of daily and political life that our side needs to use or to control - we need to get in and use them all to restore and repair our injured land. <br />I prefer the UKIP because it exists and doesn't have the BNP's Left-wing economic policies, but as our assailants are pretty much everywhere - in classrooms and editorial boards, health authorities and town halls, there's plenty of scope to have at them. For what it's worth, long journeys start with single steps, but they do have a final one too. I keep saying, it's a long war.<br /><br />Julia, really, you've hit the nail on the head. Formally teaching adults in classrooms what they would once have learned at their mothers' knees, is as much a symptom of the overall malaise as its cure. If a copper can't tell the difference between acting tough with 'a scumbag' and telling some minor clerk to change a light-bulb, then I for one don't believe that 'lessons have been learned.' But then, are they ever?North Northwesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10990919627286136085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910609762453184627.post-34979708027668112622009-11-13T06:57:20.430+00:002009-11-13T06:57:20.430+00:00Well, this might help, although if you are recruit...Well, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1227247/Rude-police-sent-manners-course-surge-incivility-complaints.html" rel="nofollow">this</a> might help, although if you are recruiting people who need this sort of training, then I'd say there's something very wrong in your recruitment standards...JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910609762453184627.post-66706434453421086912009-11-12T22:54:54.154+00:002009-11-12T22:54:54.154+00:00Another bull's-eye, NNW.
The difficulty I'...Another bull's-eye, NNW.<br /><br />The difficulty I'm having at the moment (well, one of them) is working out just what it is we can do to achieve the destruction of this nightmare. <br /><br />I don't believe I know anyone who thinks things have only got better. I don't believe I know anyone who thinks boy Dave will be much of an improvement.<br /><br />So what does that leave us? UKIP? The BNP? The former is uninspiring, the latter, chilling. <br /><br />So where to from here... ?GCoopernoreply@blogger.com