The Pilkington’s

The family accused of tormenting Fiona Pilkington and her disabled children have received death threats, it was claimed yesterday, as police patrols were stepped up near their home.

Police officers drove past the Simmons family home at least 11 times and made a 30-minute visit to their home to reassure them they were safe.

Its a pity the Police did not show that kind of support to the Pilkington’s, maybe then Mrs Pilkington and her severely disabled daughter Francesca would still be alive, instead of setting themselves alight in a car. Mrs Pilkington was driven to this extreme action by the negligence of the police in not dealing with this “family” though pack of animals would be a better description.

33 calls were made to police in a little under 2 years they only responded to eight of them and even then sometimes  a couple of days after receiving the call for help. The family which also has a disabled 17 year old in it were spat on abused and insulted daily for a number of years,

Now that threats have been made against the scum who put them through this I hope they suffer the same sort of abuse and physical intimidation as the Pilkington’s. Who knows we may get lucky and they may kill  themselves.

DurdensView Tags: Pilkington, Simmons, Abuse

Hollywood Shame

A backlash was growing last night against the actors and directors who leapt to the defence of Roman Polanski after his arrest on a child sex charge.

Celebrated cinema luminaries including Woody Allen, David Lynch and Martin Scorsese called for Polanski to be freed immediately from arrest in Switzerland on a US extradition warrant.

Its no surprise to see Woody Allen on the list, Allen started having sex with his adopted daughter when she was in her teens and then married her, David Lynch‘s film usually have a bizarre sexual angle, but god knows what Scorsese is thinking adding his name to this list perhaps he is only showing solidarity with a fellow Director,but it is  naive of him to think he can support Polanski and not get caught up in the fallout.

One other notable name that  has been conveniently dropped from this sordid story that of Jack Nicholson, the incident in question with Polanski and the 13 year old child  happened at Nicholson’s house with Nicholson Present, there was and is no suggestion he was involved but he must have been aware of what was going on, another example of Hollywood looking after his own.

I am still confident the Americans will try their utmost to convict this pervert and will not be swayed by the “Luvvies” looking to protect one of their own.

DurdensView Tags: Polanki, Lynch, Allen, Nicholson

Ahmadinejad On Notice

Iran warned Israel yesterday that it faces destruction if it attacks the Islamic republic, only hours after Tehran provocatively test-fired missiles capable of hitting targets across the Middle East.

If further proof were needed of the unsuitability of Ahmadinejad to lead Iran well here it is, now when he should be looking to find a way out of the situation with the West over his secret nuclear facility, he ties to divert attention by again threatening to destroy Israel.

He is playing a dangerous game whereas the US is always conscious of international opinion, Israel do not care about such niceties, this kind of rhetoric is playing into hard-line  Israeli Premier Binyamin Netanyahu’s hands, unless a diplomatic solution is found, and this is unlikely without a massive climb down by Iran, military action is inevitable.

Iran have promised massive and deadly retaliation for any attack, but I seem to recall another madman promising “the mother of all battles” and “to leave the desert soaked in infidel blood” if an attack occurred.

So Ahmadinejad should be aware that big bully bluster will not be enough to save him from the Israeli’s.

DurdensView Tags: Ahmadinejad, Isreal, Nuclear

Polanski Scandal

As the debate rages over whether Roman Polanski should be bought to book over his raping of a child back in 1977, where he did actually plead guilty. I saw this printed in a newspaper and thought it summed up the situation perfectly.

“You rape someone — you go to jail  If you rape someone, and then flee the country, you get even more jail time. [Polanski] was into his forties by this point, and that not only makes him an adult, but someone who was extremely aware of the consequences of his actions. Time to pay. It’s that simple.”

The bleeding hearts looking to get him freed should read the above then ask themselves if they would feel the same if it had been their daughter.

It was not just a case of simply having sex the charges read like this “Committing a lewd act upon a person less than 14, rape of a minor, rape by use of a drug, oral copulation, and sodomy”.

I believe the US will try to prosecute him the alternative is to concede that there are 2 sets of laws in place one for the rich and famous and another set for the rest.

DurdensView Tags: Polanski, Rape, Sodomy

Roman Polanski

Roman Polanski the film director is being held in custody in Switzerland on an outstanding arrest warrant that was issued some 30 years ago.

Polanski was accused of rape in 1977 after photographing a teenager during a modelling session. The girl said Polanski plied her with champagne and part of a Quaalude sedative pill at Jack Nicholson’s house.

Polanski was allowed to plead guilty to one of six charges, unlawful sexual intercourse, and was sent to prison for 42 days of evaluation. Lawyers agreed that would be his full sentence, but the judge tried to renege on the plea bargain.

Since then he has been on the run though he has travelled freely throughout Europe in that time. for some reason that I don’t fully understand there appears to be a lot of sympathy for Polanski as if he has been hard done by, though he does not deny having sex with a 13 year old.

Bernard Kouchner, the French Foreign Minister, revealed that he had written to Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, to call for the release of the director. I know they do things a little different in France but surely they recognise his crime, for the French foreign Minister to intervene like this is a disgrace.

Unless I am missing something major here Polanski is a paedophile and only escaped a long prison sentence because he absconded, I don’t see or know of any reason that he should be pardoned just because 30 years has expired, as far as I am aware there is no statute of limitations on crimes of this nature.

It will be fascinating to see how this story develops.

DurdensView Tags: Roman Polanski, rape, Paedophile

The Red Army

Manchester Utd stormed to the top of the table yesterday with the shock result of the season so far with Wigan Humbling Chelsea 3-1, Utd strolled to a comfortable 2-0 win over Stoke, this is ominous for the rest of the premiership the previous three seasons that Utd have won the title they have started of slowly and have had to come from behind.

Once the Red Devils hit the top they are notoriously difficult to unseat, so it would appear the season is over. (only kidding) but it will very tough for Utd to lose from such a good start, taking into account the European game last week they have won 7 straight games and are looking better and better, so much for missing Ronaldo.

Once this team get used to playing with this new found flexibility and not catering to the wings and Ronaldo who knows how much better they can get, and with Darren Fletcher already in contention for player of the year title number 11 in the premier league and our 4th consecutive title looks like a certainty.

DurdensView Tags: Utd, Chelsea, League

Gazza

Poor Gazza, it’s tragic to watch Paul Gascoigne self destruct before our eyes but its proving impossible to help him,  numerous spells in rehab and even sectioning have failed to slow his downward spiral.

At this rate he will be dead within a year, at least that is the opinion of  a friend who spent a day with him this week, he started boozing at 11 am and by midnight had reportedly drunk 40 bottles of Stella Artois. Such is his state of mind that he believes he can get back into the England squad for the World cup finals in South Africa next year.

Gascoigne‘s problems seemed to have started when he retired from football he could not cope with the “civilian “ world, football has a discipline that he obviously cannot live without.

From a young age he has been guided by a code of  behaviour rising at a certain time fed a certain diet and had his day mapped out for him, combined with  the physical effort of training, culminating in the adulation of thousands at the weekend chanting his name and singing his praises as they marvelled at his skills.

Women  parties and  more money than he could cope with all these things were in abundance, but when he left the game the hangers on vanished, add to that  an unstable personal life, by now he had married and divorced acrimoniously and was fighting a bitter court battle over a settlement. A combination of all these added to the most important factor, which was no guiding influence, since his early years Paul had always had someone to map out his day and weeks suddenly he was alone.

He coped by hiding behind a false facade built on booze and drugs, he has tried to get help but each time he has slipped back, this latest episode seems to be connected to the death of his “second” father Bobby Robson who died from cancer in July this year, combined with the sad news that his mother has cancer.

I don’t see a good ending here its almost like he does not care if he lives or dies, this draws parallels with George Best who drunk himself into a premature grave, I hope Gascoigne can be saved but my expectations are not high, I would think that unless something dramatic happens this could be his Last chance.

DurdensView Tags: Gazza, Robson, Drink, Drugs, Cancer

The Presidents Black!!

There is a lot being made in America this week of President Obama being hindered and even opposed on reforms because he is black. The suggestion being that the American public is racist in its attitude towards him.

I don’t accept this to be true, if Obama is being opposed by the public its because they are unhappy with his policy’s, The American Electorate are much more politically savvy than our own.

As Obama himself points out, “I was black before I was President” and had no problem picking up votes..

DurdensView Tags: Obama, Black, Policy

UN Unity

Pressure mounted on Iran yesterday to halt its nuclear programme as world leaders at the United Nations warned of the threat posed by Tehran to a global consensus on disarmament.

President Obama praised the unanimous passing of a historic UN Security Council resolution aimed at ridding the world of nuclear weapons.

Russia’s apparent shift robs Tehran of one of its most entrenched supporters. Israel, which has warned that it will attack Iran if the international community’s efforts prove ineffective, hailed the Russian shift

Indirectly this is a good result for Iran,  this may have the desired effect and the Supreme Leader, the real power in Iran may order the cessation of Nuclear enrichment, now that Russia and China are onside with the West the chances of Iran being able to continue along the enrichment path to weapons grade are practically Zero.

The Israeli’s must be overjoyed with the way the session at the UN went this week, though secretly they may have wanted to bomb the reactors and processing plants anyway just to make sure there was no chance of it secretly starting up again in the near future.

From the Iranian point of view this decision by the UN makes it imperative that regime change happens and happens soon, a new leader can ride this wave of unity amongst the five permanent members of the security council and bring the Country back into the international fold. After all as Obama is fond of saying the row is not with Iran and the Iranian people just their leaders.

DurdensView Tags: UN, Russia, China, US. Israel, Nuclear Israel

French Farce

Around a thousand Refugees were removed from a site in Calais yesterday, in a matter of hours the site had been cleared and then razed to the ground. The refugees were from all over the world and were hoping to travel to Britain to set up home where they wanted to begin a better life.

Protesters spent Tuesday morning trying to stop the refugee camp in Calais, northern France, being closed down. But Ultimately had to accept their fate.

However all is not as it first appeared, this looks to have been just a huge PR exercise because new camps have sprung up just a couple of hundred yards away from the original, it all looked very impressive for the TV French Police backed by the Army fighting the protestors but once the cameras were turned of it was business as usual.

Shame on us fooled by the frogs whatever next?

DurdensView Tags: Refugees, French, Calais

Gordon Brown

Gordon Brown last night denied widespread rumours that he could quit on health grounds before the election. He spoke out after former Labour Cabinet minister Charles Clarke suggested he should resign with dignity.

The denial was predictable but this is probably the start of a strategy  to prepare the ground for him to resign office,

The ill health story enables him to leave with some kind of “dignity” as it stands Labour would suffer a massive defeat at the elections in May next year, by dropping Brown party chiefs are hoping to minimise losses giving them a chance to regain power in the not to distant future. Leaving Brown where he is up to voting day and then suffering humiliating losses would keep labour out for possibly the next twenty years.

Brown inherited a host of problems the economy is an obvious one, but Immigration Crime and Education are all areas for concern, and there doesn’t appear to be any headway on any of them, in fact Immigration is worse and only last week we heard of spending cuts of up to two billion pounds in Education.

The simple fact is Brown was an ok number two but  is a long way from being able to lead, the sad thing from a Labour point of view is there is no obvious successor.

DurdensView Tags: Gordon Brown, Labour, Election

Artistic Licence

Boris Yeltsin got so drunk during a 1995 visit to Washington that Secret Service agents found him a few hundred feet from the White House clad only in his underwear and trying to hail a cab — because, he explained, he wanted a pizza.

That is one of the stories in Bill Clinton’s book about his time in the White House, it may make good copy and is certainly a good yarn but I don’t for a second believe it to be true.

The supposed Yeltsin incident came after one of the former Russian President’s late-night drinking sessions. On the night in question, he was staying at Blair House, the guest quarters for foreign leaders visiting Washington, which sits directly across from the White House in Pennsylvania Avenue.

He managed to give his Secret Service detail the slip. Frantically looking for him, they found him in his underwear on Pennsylvania Avenue trying to get a taxi. He explained in slurred words that he wanted a pizza.

Considering that American Presidents are the most closely guarded people in the world, and having the then second most powerful man in the world visiting I would have thought a fly could not have got out of the accommodation that night without being seen let alone a drunk Russian in Y fronts.

Also what about Yeltsins own security detail  was there no-one outside his door, that is basic security, also there would have been guards on every exit and CCTV covering every inch of Blair house.

So nice try Bill, I will allow you  a little artistic licence for being so entertaining whist in office but that wont make me buy your book, explain how you got rid of Hilary each time you wanted to cheat with Monica and that might shift a few extra copies.

DurdensView Tags: Bill Clinton, Boris Yeltsin, Whaite House

Nutty Professor

Professor John Spencer, appearing on a BBC Radio Four programme to be broadcast tomorrow night, says all teenagers should be free to have sex.

Professor John Spencer must realise that teens start from 13 years of age.

Professor John Spencer is a paedophile.

Bin Laden Blah Blah Blah

Germany was on edge yesterday after a fourth consecutive al-Qaeda video warned of an imminent bomb attack in Germany unless the Government withdrew its troops from Afghanistan.

Spain received a similar threat last month but no attack has materialised as yet, Al Quaeda are rapidly becoming a spent force, all they appear to do is threaten but are not actually backing up any of their threats, yes they are capable of a few suicide bombers in and around the Middle East, and even able to grab a few headlines in Somalia, but they really have become toothless where Europe and America are concerned.

Al Quaeda have suffered crippling losses to their command structure since the Americans started to make use of their Drones. these are pilotless aircraft armed with rockets that are controlled from a base in Utah, they are able to stay in the air for periods of up to 24 hours and have been responsible for more than 500 terrorist  deaths from the sky so far  this year.

Osama Bin laden has been marginalised to such an extent that he is reduced to living in caves and producing audio tapes only, spouting the same old rhetoric, destroying the West, wiping out Israel, freeing Palestine blah blah blah, the latest two goals Israel and Palestine are fairly new ambitions for the terrorist group, seeing their campaign take a battering they have jumped onto other causes trying to get new recruits.

Once again with perseverance the Americans are seeing gains, the doom mongers criticise anything the West does, and are obsessed with the rights of terrorists claiming drone attacks are not selective enough in their targeting, when the suicide bombs and roadside bombs become selective then they can have right to complain.

So after a long campaign and thousands of deaths the corner seems to have been turned in the battle with Al Quaeda, though it is far from over it is more a of a skirmish now than a war.

DurdensView Tags: Osama Bin Laden, US. Israel, Terrorists, Drones

Floyd Mayweather

I got up in the early hours to watch Floyd Mayweathers comeback fight last night and was not disappointed he turned in a master class of boxing against a 3 time World Champion Manuel Marquez, though Mayweather had been absent from the ring for 21 months he appeared in fantastic shape and was only a one pound lighter than in his last fight against Ricky Hatton.

Widely regarded as the best defensive fighter of his generation, the American dominated all 12 rounds against his smaller opponent with his left jab and agile movement to improve his career record to 40-0 with 25 knockouts.

The self Proclaimed pretty boy will probably fight Manny Pacquiao rated pound for pound the best fighter in the world at the moment, a strict form line comparison between Pacqiao’s fight against Marquez and Mayweathers suggests it would be close Marquez having gone the distance with both.

However on last nights evidence its Mayweather by a mile coming back after a near 2 year absence and making a 3 time world champion look like a novice, credit to Marquez for going the distance with a supreme pugilist.

Mayweather now boasts a 40-0 record and on lasts night evidence he could make it 50-0 or even a 100- 0. there is nobody out there that even comes close.

DurdensView Tags: Mayweather, Marquez, Pacquiao

President Carter

Strange comments this week from Ex President Jimmy Carter who claims that some commentators are being Racist towards current President Obama, While the former president equates criticism of President Obama with racism, it is Carter himself who cannot get past the issue of race.

Carter's comments about Obama's being treated unfairly because he is black are absurd Obama is trying to do something unprecedented and should expect some objections. A lot of ridicule and opposition comes with being the president, although it should always be done in a respectful way. Unlike the Journalist who called Obama a liar last week at the weekly press conference that wasn’t racist but it was  ignorant.

Obama has only been in office for eight months, and he has plenty of time to prove himself. Carter, on the other hand, already has proved one thing: He will always be known as one of the worst presidents that country's ever had.

Carter used to simply be an old fool, but his support for Hamas, as well as every dictator ranging from Mugabe to Castro, and his hatred for Israel have made him a dangerous, old fool whose idiotic utterances now border on treason.

Time the old fool was put out to grass.

DurdensView Tags: Carter, Obama, Racism, Hamas, Mugabe, Castro

Ahmadinejad

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashed out at Israel and the West yesterday, questioning whether the Holocaust ever happened and claiming it was a pretext for occupying Palestinian land, reiterating anti Israeli rhetoric that has bought him international condemnation.

The Iranian president said Israel was formed on a "false and mythical claim" and expressed doubts whether the Holocaust, when the Nazis killed 6 million Jews during World War II, was a "real event."

This was a transparent  attempt to divert attention away from problems at home where his position as President is shakier by the day.

As he spoke thousands of protestors took to the streets in a fresh round of protests against his election “Victory” back in June. The protesters which looked like they had gone away are back with huge numbers, Gathering   in Tehran, protestors used the opportunity afforded them by Quds day (a National Holiday)  to launch their attack on the President.

With the Universities starting up this week, Ahmadinejad can look forward to a long and sustained campaign of protest, in Iran it’s usually the campus’s that lead protests.

I am going to stick my neck out here and say that I believe this time protests will not be suppressed and unless The President can be made to step down or at the very least offer new Elections I can see the Country disintegrating into Civil war. For the population to go against the supreme Leader Ayatollah Khameni their Supreme Leader is Unprecedented, and I can see Khameni’s support for the President ebbing away.

So maybe Israel will not need to attack Nuclear installations in Iran, Regime change could bring Iranians back into the international Bosom.

DurdensView Tags: Ahmadinejad, Holocaust, Israel, Khameni, Protests, Students

Katie Price

Katie Price or Jordan or whatever she is calling herself this week should be ashamed of herself using rape as a means to keep her self on the front pages, first by claiming to have been raped and then by now saying she wont discuss it and will not name her attacker she is trivialising what is a terrible crime carried out  on women daily.

I personally don’t believe there is any truth in the allegation anyway,  she has had to date three biography’s published and she has never mentioned or even hinted at a rape before, though she did mention being sexually assaulted in a park when she was six.

What is particularly dangerous about this allegation is that people are already bandying  about 3/4 names on the internet of who they believe her “attacker” could be, even assuming that her charge was true and the attacker was one of the four names, three of these are having their names sullied by this woman. And human nature being what it is some people will say there is no smoke without fire even though there is nothing to substantiate her claim.

Katie/Jordan is to cute an operator with the press to not realise what her statement would do, if this is not another cynical attempt to keep her pathetic self on the front pages then she should come clean, after all when you are raped who do you tell first the Press or the Police, there must be a law somewhere that can be bought into effect to force her to name the individual thus making sure he is rightly punished, if its true and she has kept quite maybe this person has done it to others and continues to do it today.

Whatever way it goes she has guaranteed herself the front pages for a while. what next  for her we have already had the split, the miscarriage, the new boyfriend,  the divorce  and now the rape, she is running out of story’s, I hope the next one is alien abduction and lets hope that one is true.

DurdensView Tags: Katie Price, Jordan, Rape

General David Petraeus

General David Petraeus the overall  Commander of allied forces in Afghanistan is now saying what I have been saying on these pages for some time now that the only way to win in Afghanistan is a substantial assault on the Taliban, as things stand although the enemy cant win militarily all they really need to do is sit it out, eventually western troops would have to leave. This would count as a victory for them and be a huge recruitment boost for the terrorists.

Over the years the Afghani’s have had many battles they have won by outstaying the enemy, most notably and most recently against the might of the then Soviet Union. This looks to be going the same way unless we change our approach, I have been arguing for a while now that only a sustained overpowering assault will break the Taliban, and by sustained maybe 6/9 months, the hearts and minds softly approach has not and will not work there.

There are to many separate factions led by to many Warlords that have their own private battles they chop and change their alliances as and when it suits them, many sides will fight for money rather than ideology, and this makes it harder to negotiate a peace. So now that General Petraeus has said it maybe we will have some some movement on the troop front, the formula is simple overwhelming firepower, this is where Nato Countries need to contribute more , there is to much burden on Britain and the US.

Massive numbers of boots on the ground, stifle the enemy movement, block all supply routes then move in and crush, do not give them time to regroup and re-arm as happened in the past in the guise of a ceasefire.

General Petraeus took charge in Iraq when it was being said the Country was imploding and there was no hope, using the same formula we have a very different Iraq today, its not perfect by any means but its a million miles away from where it was in the early days of the conflict. And the situation there is improving daily, Iraqi Troops are responsible for their own security and Nato troops are there mainly as back up.

So lets back the General and we may not have our troops home by this Christmas but lets make sure they are back by the next one.

DurdensView Tags: General David Petraeus, Afghanistan, Iraq, Taliban

Our Society

An Australian man has been charged with incest after he allegedly raped his daughter almost daily and fathered her four children over a 30-year period.

The man, who has been dubbed “Australia’s Fritzl” after the notorious Austrian incest case, allegedly began raping his daughter in the 1970s when she was just 11 years old, and had threatened her with violence if she ever revealed the abuse.The four children in this case were all born with major defects.

I saw this story in one of our broadsheets and mention it only because it was tucked away on page nine, Shouldn’t this be front page, are we so de-sensitized  to these types of crime that it warrants a page nine, personally as a normal minded parent I am horrified by this story, and would imagine that a great majority of our population would be so to, so how is it on page nine when the front  page lead story is about Oil traders dumping waste in the Ocean.

Sadly this says more about our society than it does about the Newspaper in question.

DurdensView Tags: Incest, Fritzl, Society

Big Whoopee

Huge excitement in the world of science this morning as announcements about the discovery of a new planet is announced.The discovery of Corot-7b was announced in February after observations by the Corot planet-hunting space observatory.

This planet is  approximately 500 light years from Earth and has been described as Earth like I’m not sure how that can be when in the next breath we are told the temperatures there are  in day time 3600 degrees Fahrenheit and 330F at night, I would say that would be very unearth like and have zero chance of having life as we know it.

And consider this, if we were to send a message, with the technology available it would take 500 years for our message to be received there and then another 500 years for us to receive the reply so what would this burning question be, example “ how are you guys?” reply “fine thanks  how are you?” that will take 1000 years, so you will excuse me if I don’t get to excited about this latest discovery.

I do appreciate Science and how wonderful it can be and the strides it has made  in the last couple of hundred years, but these types of “discovery’s” that we are drip fed every few years in a fanfare of excitement are just designed to remind our leaders that funding time is coming around, look how clever we are, they never really amount to anything.

But keep looking and who knows maybe this time next year we will be lunching on Mars with new neighbours.

DurdensView Tags: Corot-7b, Earth, Planet, Mars

Russia See’s Sense

President Medvedev gave the first hint yesterday that Russia was prepared to perform a significant policy U-turn and support US moves for sanctions against Iran.

About time the Russians woke up to the fact that Iran is friendly with them because they are needed onside, once they are able to produce their own Nuclear weapons Iran will suddenly remember that the Russians are not friends of Islam, look at Afghanistan look at Chechnya.

Can the Reds really afford to have Islamic neighbours with a Nuclear capability, Iran would use their new found power to support their Muslim brothers anywhere they could, and don’t forget Iran sponsor lots of other groups with terrorist tags attached to them. Hezbollah for example, Israel would be first in the firing line.

I have said on many occasions that I cannot see Israel sitting idly by and letting the Iranians get the “Bomb” I suspect that their would be action on the Israeli part by the end of this year, certainly by the the early part of the new year on the Iranian Nuclear facilities, as they did with Iraq back in the early 80’s, that attack on Osirak in 1981 put back the Iraqi effort to get a bomb by at least 10 years.It was the world's first air strike against a nuclear plant. An undisclosed number of F-15 interceptors and F-16 fighter bombers destroyed the Osirak reactor 18 miles south of Baghdad, on the orders of Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

So the countdown begins, if Russia do vote alongside the US this Month for increased Sanctions watch the Chinese follow suit, then the green light is given for Israel to finalise plans. Our first inkling that something is about to happen will be when newspapers start hinting at secret visits by Israeli leaders to Moscow.

I believe this is an action that has to be taken for many reasons not least of all Israeli security, but also as a message to other nations, notably in the middle east that going down that path will not be tolerated, we need to be reducing Nuclear weapons around the world not starting new arms races with unstable regimes.

DurdensView Tags: Russia, US, Nuclear, Israel, China, Iraq, Iran

More EU Madness

Here we go again, it is going to appear that I am obsessed with the EU, but I can assure you its not obsession but concern, the latest nonsense this time from the court of European Justice is that employees have the right to ask for statutory leave to be “reallocated” when it is spoilt by sickness. Under the terms of the judgment, employees will be allowed to carry any annual leave marred by illness over into the next holiday year.

Which really gives the green light for all sorts of scams by workers, watch the claims come in by the millions, this in effect handing every worked a couple of weeks extra holiday a year with full pay. I know that their are going to be some genuine cases where someone takes a week of work  then catch’s  a cold or something and spend the week in bed, and only recover in time to return to work, but this is now going to be the norm for lots of people and how can an employer protest when the worker has the EU behind it, as usual our Government timidly go along.

The ruling, made over a case in Spain, is in effect a new interpretation of the European Working Time Directive, which applies in Britain across the entire private and public sector. The Judgement came in a case heard at the EU court, in Luxembourg, regarding Francisco Pereda, who works for Madrid city council. Mr Pereda had been scheduled to take a month’s annual leave in the summer of 2007. He was injured shortly before the annual leave was to start and was refused a request to move his holiday by his employer. Judges decided that the employee should have been allowed to take his holiday at another date — and if necessary that it could be carried forward to the next holiday year.

Though that applied to somebody who had booked a holiday then became ill prior to it happening the same rules would apply if you became ill while on holiday.

This cannot be a good thing, long term effects will on our pockets as industry tries to recoup the money it will cost with inevitable price rises.

DurdensView Tags: EU, Working Directive

Great Britain?

Britain drifts further into debt with each passing day the cost of our membership of the European union is astronomical, estimates put it at about a thousand pound per head of our population.

Hard figures  of the true cost of the EU are difficult to come by. MPs have called many times for a cost-benefit analysis, to prove or disprove the benefits of membership. Successive Governments, both Labour and Conservative, have refused, on the grounds that the "benefits" are self-evident. In truth they are afraid of what such a study would show. The Bruges Group have  produced an authoritative study.

£28 billion for business to comply with EU regulations,

£17 billion of additional food costs resulting from the Common Agricultural Policy

£3.3 billion - the value of the catch lost when the Common Fisheries Policy let other countries fish in our territorial waters

£14.6 billion gross paid into the EU budget and other EU funds.

That is about £65 billion, its a mind boggling amount, even allowing for our rebate which they want to stop, what we could do with that money rather than hand it over to a faceless entity that quite frankly we would be better of without.

Used better, this sum could transform the UK - increase pensions, recruit more doctors, nurses, teachers and police, build advanced transport systems and start paying off the national debt.

The total budget for EU 'administration' alone is £34 billion. The European Commission claims on its website to employ 25,000 staff. The true figure, according to an Open Europe study in August 2008, is 170,000.  Nearly 10,000 of these receive over £54,000 pa - over twice as many as in the whole of Whitehall.

Britain's new EU Commissioner,  will get £750,000 for just one year's service - including £200,000 in salary, £250,000 in "transitional payments" on leaving the post, and a raft of perks. He/She will also get an annual pension of £8,000 pa for one years service - twice what a UK pensioner gets for a lifetime of work.

Will we ever produce a leader or a party with the sense and courage to take us out of this “club” We are not and there is no need for us to be wholly dependent on Europe for trade, we have the rest of the World to deal with, were we  to be blacklisted by the remaining members for  pulling out.

Other benefits would include the pulling out of the human rights bill in its entirety and the return of English laws, Laws that have sustained our Country for hundreds of years Laws passed by elected officials elected by us the British people. finally to curb immigration, give our Judges back the powers to send criminals to prison for lengths of sentence that will make them think twice about committing crime, allow us reclaim the streets from the thugs and drunks that currently own them.

Fanciful if not wishful thinking you may say but why cant these things come about, is it to late for Britain, can we only slide further into  the abyss, I say its not to late there is just about time for a u-turn, its up to us find this leader and back him and make Britain Great again.

Great Britain has a ring to it.

Great Britain. lets make it so again.

DurdensView Tags: Europe, Commision.Human rights, crime, judges, Great Britain

New Faces

Mark Hughes the Manchester City boss has revealed that he is bringing new faces to the club, Carlos Tevez has asked if he can have one.

John Hartson update

Great news for fans of John Hartson after his much publicised health problem. http://durdensview.blogspot.com/2009/07/john-hartson.html

I am pleased to report that John appears to be on the mend so much so that he is getting married., he will wed teacher Sarah McManus in South Wales this year.

I send my best wishes to John and his bride to be and hope that his respite from cancer is permanent.

DurdensView Tags: John Hartson, cancer, married

Manchester Utd

The Premier league is in full swing and now the unexpected first couple of results are out of the way, you always have surprises at the beginning of a season, but now the teams are settling down the cream begins to rise to the top.

And this season promises to be a cracker with an unbeaten Chelsea looking very solid playing some good football, a little lucky against Stoke yesterday managing to get a result in the very late stages of a tough game. Liverpool have managed to get a couple of results under there belts to after a not so good start.

But the best news as far as I am concerned is about my own team Manchester Utd, after a Luke warm start by their very high standards the Champions have started to turn on the style, despite the massive gap left by the departure of Christiano Ronaldo who left in  a 80 million pound deal to go to Real Madrid.

The way a ten man Utd destroyed a Spurs side yesterday was awesome to watch, Spurs who had had their best ever start to a season winning their first four games 5-1, 2-1,5-1, 2-1,  but they were no match for the Red Devils when play like they can., there were so many performances around the pitch that it is difficult to pick a man of the match, though Darren Fletcher may have just edged it from the fantastic Wayne Rooney who is rapidly turning into the player everyone knew he could be.

So after all the pundits saying this could be the closest title fight in years and if I’m honest I thought so to, it turns out the same two teams will fight it  out again.I didn’t think Utd would get into the flow so easily after the disruption of Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez leaving, but as usual the master Tactician  Sir Alex Ferguson has carried on business as usual, so here we go a two horse race between Manchester Utd and Chelsea, and everyone else can fight for the scraps, actually I can name the first 3 places add Man City into third , Mark Hughes looks to have got it  spot on with his buys and they will be hard to beat this season.

DurdensView Tags: Man Utd, Chelsea, Man City, League, Champions

Putin Back in Charge

I suspect there was a deal made made between Ex Russian President Vladimir Putin and current President Dimitri Medvedev, its a kind of revolving door deal where Putin exits first to let Medvedev in then in 2012 they reverse the procedure so Putin can take power again, and under new changes being made to the Russian constitution Putin would be able to serve  two six year terms taking him through till 2024 as leader.

Even now with Medvedev in the top chair it is widely known that “prime minister “ Putin is the real power in Russia, But is this really a bad deal for the rest of the World, I don’t think so, ok Putin  has had and continues to have problems with former States Georgia and the Ukraine, but these are more like spats between an ex husband and wife admittedly most ex’s don’t go to war over their spats, but these largely are internal disputes that don’t involve anyone else.

I don’t think Putin has been that bad a leader in terms of World stability, the Russians have problems like we do with Terrorism so we are on side about that, Putin is also one of the few to have any sway with the Iranians and has so far stayed onside with the West regard Iran’s nuclear ambitions, after all with full Russian backing Iran would already have had dozens of bombs.

Putin has demonstrated his tough guy credentials many times,  which have also helped to keep the US in check, Bush and Putin were never really on the same page, but Obama has impressed the Russian Leader and has already improved relations, first by visiting Moscow and then taking of the table for the time being American plans for a defence shield in Europe, that would have gone almost up to the Russian borders.

There are also  plans between the two Superpowers for future talks aimed at further reducing Nuclear arsenals on both the American and Russian sides. I know that it is widely accepted that America is the only superpower left, but the big red bear has been building up and sharpening its claws for a while now, and is gradually gaining its earlier influence in World Politics.

The human rights issue is the only real  area where The Russians differ massively from us in the West, and the Russians do have a different way of dealing with problems , if  a journalist starts to write negatively about the leadership they are shot in the street, this has happened many times,  that is a form of censorship I’m sure our leaders at times wish they could employ here, on a serious note though The Alexander Litvinenko poisoning here in London in 2006 shows how far the Russians will go to preserve the status quo.

Before we in Britain start moaning about the stitch up in the transfer of power in Russia, we should ask  is the revolving door policy of swapping leaders that different with Blair stepping aside and handing over to Brown unchallenged. To me its no different.

DurdensView Tags: Putin, Medvedev, Obama, Bush, Blair, Brown. Israel, Nuclear

Charlie Sheen

The American actor Charlie Sheen is the highest paid star on US television he has a string of movie credits and is currently starring in one of the top rated shows in the world “Two and a Half Men” I am a fan of the show myself. His family are all actors to, his father Martin Sheen has appeared in over 200 films and TV shows, including the mega hit “apocalypse now” from 1979 which is still considered a classic. Charlie is no slouch either with 63 films to his credit, he also has a brother Emilio Estevez, again an actor, though not as big a star as his brother who still has over 40 film credits to his name.

So you would imagine a pretty successful family and a respected one in the United States, not so, they are nutty as fruitcakes,as demonstrated by the claim that they  believe that the 9/11 atrocities were committed by the Americans themselves. and that George Bush planned the attacks on the Twin Towers as a pretext to dismantling the Bill of Rights and as an  excuse to invade Iraq. I suppose it makes a change from saying it was for the oil, even though any sane person would know it is cheaper to buy the oil from them then fight a war for it.

Charlie Sheen has called for President Obama to instigate a new inquiry into the attacks claiming that Osama Bin Laden works for the US Government, is it a coincidence that these mad ramblings are published today on the anniversary of the most shocking event I have witnessed in my lifetime, over 3000 people murdered, the horror of that day with those people leaping to their deaths from the burning towers is one that will stay with me always.

The American people are the most Patriotic in the World and will not take kindly to Sheen’s words, don’t be surprised if attempts are made on his life, there must be laws in America that can be bought to bear on this half wit to silence him, maybe along  the lines of causing a public nuisance and possibly incitement.

Even if  he believes what he is saying to be true, and we are all entitled to our opinions, and he does live in the land of the free, was today the best time to spout this nonsense , I don’t think so.

DurdensView Tags: 9/11, Charlie Sheen, Bush, Obama

England

Congratulations to the England football team we are on our way to South Africa, a brilliant performance last night and now they have a real chance of competing , the way the Manager Fabio Capello has them playing they can beat anyone. it’s great that at last we have a manager who picks players on merit rather than reputation, with maybe the possible exception of David Beckham.

I don’t object to his being in the squad as a tool for qualification as long as he does not have long term plans for him after all Beckham will be 35 by the time the finals come around.

We have always had the quality of players in this Country to win a World Cup, but we didn’t always get the mix  or style of play right  Capello has sorted all that out, and with the possibility that the Dutch, Portuguese and Argentineans not even qualifying, and the French team looking so poor I think that England would be in the top 3 of sides that have a chance of winning alongside Spain who will likely be favourites and  Brazil who you can never ignore.

So roll on South Africa and watch the three lions roar.

DurdensView Tags: England, Capello, World Cup

Pity Gordon

For a change I am going to defend our Prime Minister Gordon Brown, he is on the receiving end of criticism for authorizing the attack on a Taliban hideout to release a British hostage who was being held captive there.

There are accusations that the British were heavy handed and used excessive force, how can it be deemed excessive force our troops were not up against boy scouts but murderous terrorists who have shown no mercy in the past, and have history of beheading hostages in front of the cameras.

In this action the hostage New York times cameraman  Stephen Farrell was rescued but sadly a member of the rescue team, a British special forces soldier was killed alongside Mr Farrell's Afghan translator, on the plus side scores of militants were killed.

It seems that the liberals in the media out there, in their desperation to criticise anything the British do have now deemed hostage rescue as an infringement on terrorists rights, maybe we should have let them know we were coming and given them a sporting chance of either moving the hostages or killing them.

Suicide bombers on a daily basis are killing innocent civilians amongst them children, this is not deemed heavy handed, these are “Freedom Fighters”. It makes me sick, lets forget all the rules smash them to pieces,whenever, and wherever we find them, Gordon Brown should take the gloves of our boys and say do whatever it takes to to win this war and we can worry about the consequences later, after all we are damned if we do and damned if we don’t.

DurdensView Tags: Gordon Brown, Farrell, Hostage. Terrorist

Manhunt

With reference to that series "Manhunt" where ex-Special Forces soldiers try to hunt down Andy McNab. Why don't the producers include a couple of Iraqis in the hunting team? They found the twat quickly enough the last time he played hide and seek with them.

Baby Murderer

Again our legal system brings itself into disrepute with the pathetic sentencing in the Laura Jane Vestuto case, this is the 28 year old mother who murdered her son so she could get some peace and quiet.

Baby Renzo Hassan was fed crushed anti depressant pills to keep him sedated and thus quiet, 20 month old Renzo stopped breathing after being fed ten times the normal dose in one feed.

She pleaded guilty and though she was told by the Judge that she was completely self obsessed and selfish, he only sentenced her to six years, taking into account the time on remand she will serve less than 2 years.

She should be jailed for life with a minimum of 25 years this poor child has had his life snuffed out because he CRIED, for Christs sake that is what baby’s do, the defenceless toddler was unable to protect himself and the person that he would have looked to for that protection, the person who he was the closest to in his short life, hers was the  first face he saw when he entered this world and sadly also the last, let him down in the cruellest most evil way imaginable by taking his life.

Taking all this into account and with no mitigating circumstances like a possible mental illness  The “Judge” who’s duty it was to dish out justice on Renzo’s behalf, the Judge who is part of the system that couldn’t help Renzo when he was alive, spurns the opportunity to make it up to him in death by letting his murderer get away with a paltry two years though she robbed her own baby of all of his life.

This looks like a perfect case where the CPS, the Crown Prosecution Service should appeal the leniency of the sentence, And we should look at the Judge Peter Thornton QC and get an explanation into his thinking when sentencing this woman.

DurdensView Tags: Vestuto, Renzo Hassan

Iranian Bravado

President Ahmadinejad the Iranian leader has shut the door on any further negotiation with the west regarding its Nuclear programme, after appearing to soften his stance, it appears he has been emboldened by his recent election “victory”.

Though the Iranians claim their Nuclear aspirations only extend to nuclear power for energy, its long been suspected it is for a weapons programme.

The Iranian leader vowed to forge ahead with uranium enrichment, even as a deadline of the end of this month, set by Mr Obama for Iran to resume negotiations, approaches. “From our point of view, Iran’s nuclear issue is over said the Iranian President.

This latest statement from the Ahmadinejad camp will only mean that it is virtually guaranteed that Israel will attack Iranian nuclear installations, and soon, I said earlier this year that I expect an Israeli action before the end of this year I see no reason to change my mind.

DurdensView Tags: Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Israel

Lets Retire Beckham

David Beckham claims he is worried that England manager Fabio Capello will not pick him in the 23 man squad next year for the World Cup to be held in South Africa.

Well lets see the finals start in June next year, one month before kick of Beckham celebrates his 35th birthday, With the likes of Theo Walcott Shaun Wright Philips or Aaron Lennon around do we need to look to a 35 year old.

If he does make the squad you know it will be a commercial decision and not a footballing one, I hope Capello does not let  the FA bully him into it, Beckham has been a great servant to the English game for lots of years and it still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up when I remember the  last minute goal against Greece that took us to the European Championships back in 2006.

As good as a footballer Beckham was throughout his career and he was a good player for a lot of years, I have never rated him a truly great player. You couldn’t for example put him up there with the Maradonna’s of this world, but nevertheless he has done a job for us, and his contribution and work rate can never be diminished.

But its time to let the young bloods show what they can do, so lets start now, Capello should leave him out of the starting 11 for the game against Croatia tomorrow night, but by all means have him in the squad and on the bench then maybe he could be used in some capacity, but once we achieve qualification and I believe we will do so tomorrow, then its time to say thanks David but no more.

DurdensView Tags: Beckham, Capello, FA

The Afghan War

With President Karzai poised to claim outright victory in Afghanistan’s flawed elections, the Election committee is poised to delay the release of preliminary results and cancel hundreds of thousands of ballots.

Dr Abdullah Abdullah has accused Karzai of widespread fraud, and independent monitors look like they will back Abdullah’s claims. What a waste of lives and effort operation Panthers claw turned out to be in respect of providing security and persuading Afghans to come out and vote, The threat of the Taliban was to much for the majority of voters.

In military terms the operation was a success if you measure success by the amount of enemy they killed, however the numbers of Taliban combined with foreign fighters is still a problem.

I have said before this battle needs a greater focus on wiping out the Taliban, at the moment as they have been for the last 7 /8 years the military is fighting a war and trying to win “Hearts and minds” and this is hampering their effort.

I say lets forget “Hearts and minds”  for a sustained all out assault, with other Nato members stepping up to the plate and  providing troops, the US is planning a surge with up to another 100,000 troops to be deployed, and at the risk of repeating my self, if Europe can manage 100,000 to maybe this war can be ended.

DurdensView Tags: Karzai, Abdullah, Taliban, Nato

Sweet. But A Little Dim

The winner of the recently finished Big Brother 10 Sophie Reade has claimed that she wants to be the new Jordan, she is not the first young girl I have heard say this,  it seems the world is full of young girls that aspire to become Jordan.

What a depressing thought, I cannot see what there is to  admire about her, first of all,  she is for want of a better word,  a slag, I don’t think that is to harsh when you look back over her track record with men and her recent antics since she separated from the male equivalent of herself the pathetic Greek.

If exposing yourself continuously, getting drunk and sleeping with anyone that comes along is to be admired then god help our next generation.

Sophie does seem like a nice enough girl, sweet if a bit dim, but she has a likeability about her that I don’t think is faked, I hope her friends and family can discourage from the Jordan aspiration, and let her know that she is fine as she is, the last thing the world needs is another Jordan.

DurdensView Tags: Sophie Reade, Jordan, Slag

A Fate Worse Than Death

I keep seeing and hearing reports in the press that finding Jaycee Lee Dugard the young American girl who had been kidnapped and held for 18 years gives hope to the McCann family that Madeline may be alive and in the same position and could eventually turn up.

Well excuse me but how could knowing that your 4 year old daughter has been taken by a 50 year old paedophile, who plans to rape her continuously, and in any disgusting way he likes for the next 18 years, keep her in squalor, have a couple of  kids with her, possibly be of any comfort to a parent.

In an earlier piece I said that I was hopeful that Madeline could one day appear with a story to tell, I did not mean a story like this, more along the lines that a childless couple perhaps misguidedly be keeping her and bringing her up as their own.

Under Jaycee Lee Dugard’s  circumstances as horrible as it is to say, Madeline would be better of dead.

DurdensView Tags: Jaycee, Rape, Paedophile

Europe, A Powder Keg

Race riots in Italy threaten to get out of control, in the Midlands we have had consecutive weeks of  demonstrations in Luton and Bedford, by BNP supporters on one side, and anti Fascist’s on the other culminating in violence on our streets, 12 months ago in Roquetas del Mar in Spain riots erupted there after the death of an African immigrant.

I could go on with examples but you get the pattern Europe  is beginning to become a cauldron of resentment and hate, since the EU was founded and borders opened, migration has exploded, sadly a proportion of people moving from Country to Country are not the model citizens you would want, but rather the low life's and criminals that have no future in their own places of birth, so they are transporting their misery to others.

The freedom to just move from Country to Country was always going to be exploited, and even the most liberal and welcoming Nation would start to feel resentment as the “foreigners” came in and started to take their jobs by working for less pay, in this Country our builders have felt the brunt of it as cheap labour has all but forced the British Labourer out of the market, never mind that quality of the imported labour is not as good.

The European Union of today is the result of a process that began half a century ago with the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community. Those two industries then still provided the industrial muscle for military power, France and Germany formed the union really as a means to make sure war could never happen between the two Countries.

The other four founder states (Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands), also saw the new Community as a means to ensure peace by binding Germany within strong European institutions. For the most part they too, like the Germans, saw the Community as a stage in the development of a federal polity and have largely continued to do so.

If the union had stayed as that, “Just a business arrangement” with peace thrown in as a perk it would have been a fantastic creation, but we have unelected faceless people in Brussels with this desire to mix the whole of Europe so much that no Country has an identity left, and this is where  the problems start,we are all basically to different, its fine to visit each other for a couple of weeks a year, and broaden each others horizons, but to live with each other peacefully you need to embrace each other culturally..

To go live in a Country and not embrace their way of life , to settle in a community then shut yourself of and stay with your own kind, to criticise your hosts way of life, and then to try to make them adapt to yours, to encroach on each others houses and job’s, burden each others  health services, take advantage of  other more generous benefits systems, these are the causes of the unrest across Europe.

Sadly I don’t know what the answer is the EU is to big a beast to control it’s rules and laws are like a juggernaut running downhill with nobody at the wheel, but what I can tell you is that when it does hit the wall at the bottom and it surely will the resulting bang will be heard all over Europe.

DurdensView Tags: Race Riots, Brussels, Italy, Germany, EU

The Blues Have The Blues

Chelsea have been banned from signing any players for the next two transfer windows, after being found guilty of inducing a player to quit his contract, in this case Gael kakuta from Lens back in 2007.

Along with steep fines for the both the club and the player Fifa also banned Kakuta, 18, a skilful left-winger who had been named in Chelsea's Champions League squad, from taking part in official matches for four months

At first glance this does seem a harsh punishment, but when you look closer at the Chelsea policy of signing young players you see that something has to be done, This policy will save  many if not hundreds of millions of pounds in transfer fee’s for Chelsea in the years to come, by snapping up talent for peanuts at an early age  Chelsea look to produce a conveyor belt of talent in the future, and even if the player does not mature to a standard good enough for the Blues they would still have a future in football and would have a sell on value. just fining a club with Chelsea’s wealth would have zero effect but this will bite deep.

Gervais Martel, the Lens president, said “The player was under contract with us, and they came and stole him away, Chelsea think they are immune from  following the rules they contacted the player when he wasn't even 16 and while he was  contracted to our training group, he had been with us from the age of eight.

Kakuta is a fantastically gifted left winger, who was already at the tender age of 17 in the full Champions League squad for Chelsea this season, having just watched some clips of the lad in action http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/2621362/Youre-a-bunch-of-thieves.html I can see why the Blues were so keen to secure his services, this is definitely a superstar for the future.

This type of punishment however  is not unprecedented recently Fifa punished Switzerland's FC Sion for a similar offence the club was told it could not sign players until the 2010 off-season. This was punishment for signing Egypt goalkeeper Essam El Hadary in 2008 before his deal with Al-Ahly had expired.

My own team Manchester Utd could have similar problems in the very near future over their actions in recruiting French under 16 Captain Pogba from Le Havre in France last month. Utd stand accused of giving large sums of money to the youngster’s parents to get them to persuade their son to sign for the League Champions.

United  deny the accusations but could face the same charges as Chelsea did over Kakuta. The Champions claimed they were within their rights to sign the player, as he had not signed any legally binding Le Havre contract. A United spokesman “ We have nothing to fear everything has been done within the UEFA guidelines.

The case is still to be heard.

DurdensView Tags: Kakuta, Chelsea, Fifa, Ban, Utd, Pogba

Liar Liar Pants On Fire

Gordon Brown was accused of double dealing last night after an official document emerged claiming that Libya was told that he wanted the Lockerbie bomber to die a free man.

The disclosure threatens to undermine the Government’s determinedly neutral stance over the release of Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi.

Will Gordon Brown do the decent thing and go, after all how can we trust a Prime Minister caught lying, resigning would be the honourable thing to do, but sadly Honour isn’t a word our politicians can readily identify with.

No,  we will have to drag Gordon  shouting and screaming out of office next May when Labour as a party will be sent back to the Political dark ages.

DurdensView Tags: Gordon Brown, Lockerbie. Libya, Political

FA Clowns

Liverpool boss rafael Benitez faces a touchline ban  after being charged with improper conduct by the FA,this is because  Rafa  tapped his glasses as he spoke about referee Phil Dowd after losing to Spurs earlier in the season.

Now far be it for me to stick up for anyone remotely concerned with the Scousers let alone their manager but I have to say this is ridiculous, it’s getting so that soon managers or players for that matter wont be able to open their mouths at all.

Last time I bothered to check this was still a free Country (only just) and free speech was still tolerated, The FA are making themselves look ridiculous and petty if they follow through with  this charge.

One of the great things about football is that every game has a talking point an incident or two in a game that friends and work colleagues can argue and debate Monday morning, we all have our own opinions and different takes on how we see incidents in a match, why should managers not be afforded the same right to discuss and argue their points to.

So I hope the FA reconsider and drop this, Liverpool have enough problems this season on the pitch without outside interference, when they drop out of the top four this season I don’t want them to have anything they can blame except their own shortcomings.

Incidentally this will be the only time I ever stick up for the whinging Scousers.

DurdensView Tags: Liverpool, Scousers, Rafa, Benitez, FA

Our Joke Government

Twenty percent of all manslaughters and murders  in this Country last year were committed by foreigners, that’s 20 in every 100. and last years total was 371 with the Poles top of the offenders list, closely followed by Lithuanians, Somalian’s and Sri Lankans. And many of those convicted had previous convictions for violent crime in their native Country’s, and most if not all of those convicted were in Britain legally.

How are these people able to waltz in to our Country unchallenged, I could understand if they had sneaked in, which given the way our borders are protected is not to difficult, but no, they are coming in through normal channels.

Other Country’s and I will use the States and Australia as examples make it very difficult to gain entry if you have any conviction, and impossible if you have a conviction for murder or manslaughter, so why do we just roll over and accept anybody.

Well the simple answer is that old bugbear, The Human Rights Act, we are the only Country that adhere to the rules, we have an almost religious devotion to it, and when I say we I of course mean our pathetic excuse for a Government.

Other Nations cherry pick the best bits and blatantly oppose the bits they don’t like, but at least they work in their own national interest unlike our politicians who have no backbone, they have demonstrated this many times, most recently with the Libyan Bomber, I cant imagine any other civilised Country releasing a mass murderer with 270 deaths to his credit after a paltry 8 years in exchange for friendship with a dictator and ultimately oil.

Labour are in power and we cannot do anything about it until next May when Gordon Brown will have no choice but to face the Country in an election. I am happy to state now for the record that Labour will be crushed, completely annihilated at the polls, and it could be many decades before they will be trusted with power again. Lets Pray its not to late to salvage our once great Country.

DurdensView Tags: Murder Fritzeil, Immigrants, Poles, Labour, Gordon Brown