Politicians chose to put you in this mess
Policies can make Britain's financial and social problems worse - or better, argues Irwin Stelzer.
The above is the headline to an article, that in my opinion, is worth reading.
(See Link)
From what the article says, we can get Britain back on it's feet and working it's way back to becoming Great Britain again. It just needs someone with the bottle of someone like Margaret Thatcher to kick start this.
I know some people don't like her, but like her or hate her she had the bottle to go against all of the European commission and get a rebate for Britain. She went up against the unions and won.
Britain is now close to, if not, in the gutter. We need to look at every policy and make it work, by either changing it or getting rid of it and making a new one that works for all the people of the UK.
Have a read of the article and see what you think.
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Where has all our Freedom Gone?
The headline below is in the Daily Telegraph today.
(See Link)
'Every phone call, email and internet click stored by 'state spying' databases'
In the week where we Remember the Honoured Dead who gave their lives in both World Wars, and the conflicts since, to give us freedom from dictatorships and to go about our business freely we find out the government is introducing this.
Here is part of the article;
Despite widespread opposition over Britain's growing surveillance society, 653 public bodies will be given access to the confidential information, including police, local councils, the Financial Services Authority, the Ambulance Service, fire authorities and even prison governors.
They will not require the permission of a judge or a magistrate to access the information, but simply the authorisation of a senior police officer or the equivalent of a deputy head of department at a local authority.
Now I realise there has to be a certain amount of security for the safety of the nation, but to let this information available to any department head in a local council is beyond a joke.
Now people will say if you haven't done anything wrong you have nothing to worry about. Yes, but people should be able to email, chat on the phone, sell things on Ebay, buy things at an internet shopping site etc, without worrying about if the information is being checked by the department head of refuge in your local council.
We already have local councils using anti terror legislation to check if people are living in catchment areas for schools, no we have this.
What did all those people die for, in both World Wars, just to see the freedom that they died for be taken away by what is fast becoming like the old East German stasi government, where you say one wrong word and you were never seen again.
If all this information was just available to the security services, like MI5, and maybe high national government i wouldn't be that worried about it, but to give just about anyone in government, national and local, permission to look at the data with out a court order is very, very worrying.
I fear for My Country. I fear what else is coming we don't know about yet.
We have to wait and see.
(See Link)
'Every phone call, email and internet click stored by 'state spying' databases'
In the week where we Remember the Honoured Dead who gave their lives in both World Wars, and the conflicts since, to give us freedom from dictatorships and to go about our business freely we find out the government is introducing this.
Here is part of the article;
Despite widespread opposition over Britain's growing surveillance society, 653 public bodies will be given access to the confidential information, including police, local councils, the Financial Services Authority, the Ambulance Service, fire authorities and even prison governors.
They will not require the permission of a judge or a magistrate to access the information, but simply the authorisation of a senior police officer or the equivalent of a deputy head of department at a local authority.
Now I realise there has to be a certain amount of security for the safety of the nation, but to let this information available to any department head in a local council is beyond a joke.
Now people will say if you haven't done anything wrong you have nothing to worry about. Yes, but people should be able to email, chat on the phone, sell things on Ebay, buy things at an internet shopping site etc, without worrying about if the information is being checked by the department head of refuge in your local council.
We already have local councils using anti terror legislation to check if people are living in catchment areas for schools, no we have this.
What did all those people die for, in both World Wars, just to see the freedom that they died for be taken away by what is fast becoming like the old East German stasi government, where you say one wrong word and you were never seen again.
If all this information was just available to the security services, like MI5, and maybe high national government i wouldn't be that worried about it, but to give just about anyone in government, national and local, permission to look at the data with out a court order is very, very worrying.
I fear for My Country. I fear what else is coming we don't know about yet.
We have to wait and see.
Sunday, 8 November 2009
Charity Bike Ride
I received an email from a reader of my blog asking me to advertise someone who is doing a charity bike ride through China.
After seeing what her charity was for i thought why not. If it helps her get sponsorship then why not help out.
The woman who is doing the charity ride is called Fiona, and the charity she is collecting for is called 'Women For Women.'
She also has a blog page. See Link. She also has a fund raising page at Just Giving.
I have a friend whose daughter has Cystic Fibrosis and i know how hard it can be, not just for the child but for the parents to.
All i ask is for you to take a look and i will leave it up to you.
After seeing what her charity was for i thought why not. If it helps her get sponsorship then why not help out.
The woman who is doing the charity ride is called Fiona, and the charity she is collecting for is called 'Women For Women.'
She also has a blog page. See Link. She also has a fund raising page at Just Giving.
I have a friend whose daughter has Cystic Fibrosis and i know how hard it can be, not just for the child but for the parents to.
All i ask is for you to take a look and i will leave it up to you.
Saturday, 7 November 2009
The Search is Finally Over
There has been a lot of conspiracy theories about the identity of Oscar, from The Thoughts of Oscar blog.
Well i have finally found out who Oscar is and what he looks likes and there can be no denying this.
Here he is: -
Sorry Oscar, I couldn't help myself.
I got the idea from seeing the google home page and it showing that Sesame Street is celebrating it's 40th anniversary.
I do remember watching Sesame Street when i was a youngster and i loved it, from Bert and Ernie to the Count (ha ha ha ha), from Kermit the Frog to Big Bird. from Oscar to Elmo. As i am writing this i have a smile on my face i loved it that much.
I have very fond memories of Sesame Street and the fun i had watching it.
I think about Sesame Street and i think of what kids are watching now. There isn't any comparison. You learnt a lot on Sesame Street about writing, the alphabet, counting. I could even count to 10 in Spanish because of Sesame Street.
Here's to the next anniversary of Sesame Street.
Well i have finally found out who Oscar is and what he looks likes and there can be no denying this.
Here he is: -
Sorry Oscar, I couldn't help myself.
I got the idea from seeing the google home page and it showing that Sesame Street is celebrating it's 40th anniversary.
I do remember watching Sesame Street when i was a youngster and i loved it, from Bert and Ernie to the Count (ha ha ha ha), from Kermit the Frog to Big Bird. from Oscar to Elmo. As i am writing this i have a smile on my face i loved it that much.
I have very fond memories of Sesame Street and the fun i had watching it.
I think about Sesame Street and i think of what kids are watching now. There isn't any comparison. You learnt a lot on Sesame Street about writing, the alphabet, counting. I could even count to 10 in Spanish because of Sesame Street.
Here's to the next anniversary of Sesame Street.
Friday, 6 November 2009
Crime and Neighbourhood Policing
I have just been reading about Amy Newlove, daughter of Gary Newlove and her question to Gordon Brown about why her fathers murderers were given such soft sentences.
(See Link)
The Prime Minister, speaking at the event organised by Key 103, a Manchester radio station, said crime had fallen but there were now more people in prison, which showed sentences had got tougher.
He added: 'I think, in the longer term, neighbourhood policing is the better thing for all of us. We want to see a visible presence of police on our streets.'
I have a point or two to say about what Gordon Brown said.
He says that crime has fallen and that there are more people in prison. Yes there are more people in prison, but Gordon you are letting other criminals out early so the new ones, or those ones you let out early who re offend return to the prison.
Crime hasn't fallen, it has just been reduced by putting certain crimes in a different category, and by using the crime survey and not the proper crime figures.
With all the crimes reported in the news, locally and nationally, the politicians must be hiding the real crime figures. I think it would be frightening to know what the real figures are.
What will happen when we have another murder like that of Gary Newlove. What will their sentence be?
There have been other murders like this before and there will be others in the future. It is obvious that there needs to be stronger sentences for these type of murders, and murders in general.
It doesn't help when we have this Human Rights, 'for criminals', Act, which only seems to help the low life criminals and not the victims and the innocent people of this country.
Gordon says 'neighbourhood policing is the better thing for all of us.'
Gordon i hate to tell you this, but we had neighbourhood policing years ago, but over the years there have been less and less police walking in our communities.
When i was a lad i saw a policemen nearly everyday walking through town and the surrounding areas, and we had a police station in nearly every town. Policing has become centralised, due to a number of factors. One being better communications, and less money, so they think they won't be needing all the police stations scattered around the country.
Now we have these PCSOs who we see out in our towns. PCSOs can only do a fraction of what a fully trained policeman can do. I would rather have 5 fully trained police than 15 PCSOs.
The police, the courts and sentencing has to be radically changed so the general public can feel safe in our homes and our streets again.
(See Link)
The Prime Minister, speaking at the event organised by Key 103, a Manchester radio station, said crime had fallen but there were now more people in prison, which showed sentences had got tougher.
He added: 'I think, in the longer term, neighbourhood policing is the better thing for all of us. We want to see a visible presence of police on our streets.'
I have a point or two to say about what Gordon Brown said.
He says that crime has fallen and that there are more people in prison. Yes there are more people in prison, but Gordon you are letting other criminals out early so the new ones, or those ones you let out early who re offend return to the prison.
Crime hasn't fallen, it has just been reduced by putting certain crimes in a different category, and by using the crime survey and not the proper crime figures.
With all the crimes reported in the news, locally and nationally, the politicians must be hiding the real crime figures. I think it would be frightening to know what the real figures are.
What will happen when we have another murder like that of Gary Newlove. What will their sentence be?
There have been other murders like this before and there will be others in the future. It is obvious that there needs to be stronger sentences for these type of murders, and murders in general.
It doesn't help when we have this Human Rights, 'for criminals', Act, which only seems to help the low life criminals and not the victims and the innocent people of this country.
Gordon says 'neighbourhood policing is the better thing for all of us.'
Gordon i hate to tell you this, but we had neighbourhood policing years ago, but over the years there have been less and less police walking in our communities.
When i was a lad i saw a policemen nearly everyday walking through town and the surrounding areas, and we had a police station in nearly every town. Policing has become centralised, due to a number of factors. One being better communications, and less money, so they think they won't be needing all the police stations scattered around the country.
Now we have these PCSOs who we see out in our towns. PCSOs can only do a fraction of what a fully trained policeman can do. I would rather have 5 fully trained police than 15 PCSOs.
The police, the courts and sentencing has to be radically changed so the general public can feel safe in our homes and our streets again.
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Bodycare UK 'bans Remembrance Day poppies'
That is the news headline in the Telegraph.
A spokesman for Bodycare’s parent company, GR and MM Blackledge, said: "Employees are only allowed to wear their uniform, and charitable pins would not be considered part of the uniform.”
The spokesman said the company did not differentiate between charities, having decided to ban all wristbands and charity emblems.
Is this spokesman a brainless idiot who just recites company policy.
Does this spokesman have any form of common sense?
Does this spokesman realise what sacrifice the soldiers of both world wars and who have died since?
Does this spokesman know what sacrifice really is, or is his idea of sacrifice, for example missing lunch, working late, missing a football match because he has to work.
I hope this guy, and the company, finds out how stupid they are. I hope people boycott this company until they change their minds on their employees wearing poppies.
I hope this guy, and the company, finds out how stupid they are. I hope people boycott this company until they change their minds on their employees wearing poppies.
The poppy is our way of showing the men and women of our armed forces, past and present, that we honour those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice.
If i ever meet this spokesman for Bodycare, i will take him to the nearest Royal British Legion and ask him to tell the old soldiers why no one in his company is allowed to wear a poppy.
Sunday, 1 November 2009
Way to go to Kill off the Romance
I can't believe what i have just read.
(See Link)
Kissing was developed 'to spread germs'
'It isn't the most romantic theory, but scientists believe kissing was developed to spread germs which build up immunity to illness.'
What a way to kill the romance.
Sweetheart, i'm not kissing you because i love you, i'm kissing you so you need to build up immunity to some germs.
The only thing is that people have been kissing for hundreds, if not thousands of years. How did they now back then that they must kiss each other to help provide the woman an immunity for when she is pregnant.
Take a look and see what you think.
(See Link)
Kissing was developed 'to spread germs'
'It isn't the most romantic theory, but scientists believe kissing was developed to spread germs which build up immunity to illness.'
What a way to kill the romance.
Sweetheart, i'm not kissing you because i love you, i'm kissing you so you need to build up immunity to some germs.
The only thing is that people have been kissing for hundreds, if not thousands of years. How did they now back then that they must kiss each other to help provide the woman an immunity for when she is pregnant.
Take a look and see what you think.
ASBO Youths to be Named and Shamed says PM
The Prime Minister says ASBO youths will be named and shamed by having their names published on the internet and by leaflet. (See Link)
Will it be a deterrent to those hardcore youths out there determined to cause havoc on our streets. In my opinion Not A Chance.
The only way to combat these youths is to have police patrolling our streets. The police also need to know that they won't be held back by any politically correct rubbish. There are times for the police to be tactful, and there are other times when they need to be forceful.
Having the police patrolling our streets is one thing, the other is the courts. When the police arrest someone, say for disturbing the peace or even assault, the police gather evidence and send it to the CPS, they go to court and they get a conviction. Then the magistrates sentence them to a ridiculously soft sentence, even though the same person has been in front of them before.
The whole system need to be changed.
The PM quotes;
''The consequences for committing anti-social behaviour should be clear.''
Mr Brown said he was renewing the Government's focus on crime in the weeks ahead as he promised to ''make life better for the mainstream majority''.
I have just one thing i have to say to the PM, remember what your party said twelve and a half years ago.
What you can't remember, here let me remind you;
'TOUGH ON CRIME, TOUGH ON THE CAUSES OF CRIME'
You're a bit late, you should of stuck to what you said all those years ago.
Will it be a deterrent to those hardcore youths out there determined to cause havoc on our streets. In my opinion Not A Chance.
The only way to combat these youths is to have police patrolling our streets. The police also need to know that they won't be held back by any politically correct rubbish. There are times for the police to be tactful, and there are other times when they need to be forceful.
Having the police patrolling our streets is one thing, the other is the courts. When the police arrest someone, say for disturbing the peace or even assault, the police gather evidence and send it to the CPS, they go to court and they get a conviction. Then the magistrates sentence them to a ridiculously soft sentence, even though the same person has been in front of them before.
The whole system need to be changed.
The PM quotes;
''The consequences for committing anti-social behaviour should be clear.''
Mr Brown said he was renewing the Government's focus on crime in the weeks ahead as he promised to ''make life better for the mainstream majority''.
I have just one thing i have to say to the PM, remember what your party said twelve and a half years ago.
What you can't remember, here let me remind you;
'TOUGH ON CRIME, TOUGH ON THE CAUSES OF CRIME'
You're a bit late, you should of stuck to what you said all those years ago.
Friday, 30 October 2009
A Letter about Llandudno Lifeboat 2
I am glad to see more people are writing in to the North Wales Weekly news regarding Llandudno Lifeboat and their ongoing trials to try and build a new station by Llandudno Pier.
The latest letter, (See Link), is a very good reply to what John Lawson Reay has been saying over the last few months.
Mr Nicol sounds, from his letter, that he has experienced a lot while he was in the Coastguard, Mr Nicol's letter is from someone who has been there and done that, not something that i can say about Mr Lawson Reay
His letter last week said 2 former Lifeboat crew were backing him in his proposals for where the Lifeboat Station should be.
Now I have a lot of respect for lifeboatmen, and women, current crew and retired crew, but both of these men were on the crew many years ago and, in my opinion, may not know what is needed for the current and future of the Lifeboat in Llandudno.
The current lifeboat station was built in 1903, and was built there to launch from both the West shore and Llandudno promenade. Now it is 2009, 106 years later. I think Llandudno needs a new Lifeboat station.
The slipway that the lifeboat launches from is about 100 yards from the pier, so it is common sense that the new lifeboat station should be built as close as possible to the slipway.
Mr John Lawson Reay says that it will spoil the look of Llandudno promenade, but has he forgotten what the extension to the theater has done to the look of the promenade. or that the view from the promenade is already spoilt by the wind farms.
Llandudno is a 'Victorian resort', but i think that some residents and councillors are still in Victorian times. We need to think for the future of Llandudno, we need to think of what is best for Llandudno now and for the future.
The latest letter, (See Link), is a very good reply to what John Lawson Reay has been saying over the last few months.
Mr Nicol sounds, from his letter, that he has experienced a lot while he was in the Coastguard, Mr Nicol's letter is from someone who has been there and done that, not something that i can say about Mr Lawson Reay
His letter last week said 2 former Lifeboat crew were backing him in his proposals for where the Lifeboat Station should be.
Now I have a lot of respect for lifeboatmen, and women, current crew and retired crew, but both of these men were on the crew many years ago and, in my opinion, may not know what is needed for the current and future of the Lifeboat in Llandudno.
The current lifeboat station was built in 1903, and was built there to launch from both the West shore and Llandudno promenade. Now it is 2009, 106 years later. I think Llandudno needs a new Lifeboat station.
The slipway that the lifeboat launches from is about 100 yards from the pier, so it is common sense that the new lifeboat station should be built as close as possible to the slipway.
Mr John Lawson Reay says that it will spoil the look of Llandudno promenade, but has he forgotten what the extension to the theater has done to the look of the promenade. or that the view from the promenade is already spoilt by the wind farms.
Llandudno is a 'Victorian resort', but i think that some residents and councillors are still in Victorian times. We need to think for the future of Llandudno, we need to think of what is best for Llandudno now and for the future.
Does Crime Pay? Part 2
This time it's Tony McNulty (See Link)
This Minister for The Home office, who basically was the minister for law and order, had 2 homes within 8 miles of each other. The second home allowance was meant for mps who live too far away to commute everyday, not mps who live with in 10 miles.
How the hell did he get away with it for so long?
How many more mps have done this?
He has been told to repay £13,000 and to apologise to the house of commons. Oh what a punishment that is to someone who has fiddled around £72,000 for his second home. Now it is said that he can keep £60,000 of the, fiddled, expenses claimed.
Do these politicians forget that the money they are fiddling is OUR money, the taxpayers money that we earn through bloody hard work. We work to try and give ourselves and our families a home, food and clothing, and if possible a holiday now and again, but these politicians use OUR money like it is a divine right for them to give themselves as much of OUR money as they possibly can.
There has to be 100% disclosure about all expenses in the future. I don't think the taxpayers will ever forgive the politicians if anything like this happens again.
It comes to mind President Lincoln's address where he ended with;
'That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government; of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth'
We so desperately need a government 'of the people, by the people, for the people.' Not the shower we have now
This Minister for The Home office, who basically was the minister for law and order, had 2 homes within 8 miles of each other. The second home allowance was meant for mps who live too far away to commute everyday, not mps who live with in 10 miles.
How the hell did he get away with it for so long?
How many more mps have done this?
He has been told to repay £13,000 and to apologise to the house of commons. Oh what a punishment that is to someone who has fiddled around £72,000 for his second home. Now it is said that he can keep £60,000 of the, fiddled, expenses claimed.
Do these politicians forget that the money they are fiddling is OUR money, the taxpayers money that we earn through bloody hard work. We work to try and give ourselves and our families a home, food and clothing, and if possible a holiday now and again, but these politicians use OUR money like it is a divine right for them to give themselves as much of OUR money as they possibly can.
There has to be 100% disclosure about all expenses in the future. I don't think the taxpayers will ever forgive the politicians if anything like this happens again.
It comes to mind President Lincoln's address where he ended with;
'That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government; of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth'
We so desperately need a government 'of the people, by the people, for the people.' Not the shower we have now
Saturday, 24 October 2009
What a beach should be like
I just found the top picture on the internet. What a site this is or should i say was.
I am guessing that the top picture was taken late 50's early 60's, and the other was taken by myself last year.
As you will see we have the wooden partitions there to help keep the sand where it is. Today we don't have those partitions and as you have no doubt seen yourselves we have a beach that is mostly covered in rock, stone and shingle.
There is a small part that is still mostly sand but that is only about 100 yards between the pier and the concrete slipway.
I remember, just, from when i was a child. In the summers my friends and i would spend hours swimming in the sea, while our mothers chatted to one another and then calling us all in for lunch. We had so much fun in the summers back then.
In my opinion if we can get the beach back to what it was all those years ago maybe, if we get decent weather as well, we will get more holiday makers coming back to Llandudno and it will help revitalise the town.
A couple of years ago the council made a big publicity announcement about this machine that would clean the beach of the rocks and stone and shingle and give us back a sandy beach.
Well in the last couple of years i have seen nothing of that machine.
Is it broken?
Was it just a publicity stunt?
Doesn't anyone know how to drive it?
Or is it due to health and safety that the council cannot use it due to some stupid regulation.
I am guessing that the top picture was taken late 50's early 60's, and the other was taken by myself last year.
As you will see we have the wooden partitions there to help keep the sand where it is. Today we don't have those partitions and as you have no doubt seen yourselves we have a beach that is mostly covered in rock, stone and shingle.
There is a small part that is still mostly sand but that is only about 100 yards between the pier and the concrete slipway.
I remember, just, from when i was a child. In the summers my friends and i would spend hours swimming in the sea, while our mothers chatted to one another and then calling us all in for lunch. We had so much fun in the summers back then.
In my opinion if we can get the beach back to what it was all those years ago maybe, if we get decent weather as well, we will get more holiday makers coming back to Llandudno and it will help revitalise the town.
A couple of years ago the council made a big publicity announcement about this machine that would clean the beach of the rocks and stone and shingle and give us back a sandy beach.
Well in the last couple of years i have seen nothing of that machine.
Is it broken?
Was it just a publicity stunt?
Doesn't anyone know how to drive it?
Or is it due to health and safety that the council cannot use it due to some stupid regulation.
Question Time this week.
I don't usually watch Question Time, but i had to watch this week because i wanted to see what Nick Griffin was like with an audience that wasn't pro BNP.
There have been arguments about weather Nick Griffin should be allowed to go on Question Time, or any other mainstream tv programme. Part of me didn't want him on Question Time, but another did want him on tv.
From what i saw Nick Griffin came off badly. David Dimbleby did a good job to get Nick Griffin to answer questions and not go off on one of his rants. for example; when he was asked about being friends with the head of the KKK and about his questioning of the holocaust being a lie.
As the programme went on he became more twitchy and shifty. In my opinion that answered my worries about whether he should be allowed on a mainstream tv programme like Question Time. Nick Griffin can't handle an audience of people that aren't supporters of the BNP.
The best part of the programme, for me, was when Bonnie Greer said about indigenous people of Britain 17000 years ago. Nick Griffin said that the indigenous people of Britain have been forced out by people from the out side.
Bonnie Greer said that 17000 years ago the indigenous people of Britain were Neanderthals, and that modern people of Britain's ancestry came from the African Continent. If i read between the lines of what she said, she was saying Nick Griffin and his Party were neanderthals. Like it
This weeks Question Time has shown that Nick Griffin can't hold his own unless there is just pro BNP supporters in the audience.
There have been arguments about weather Nick Griffin should be allowed to go on Question Time, or any other mainstream tv programme. Part of me didn't want him on Question Time, but another did want him on tv.
From what i saw Nick Griffin came off badly. David Dimbleby did a good job to get Nick Griffin to answer questions and not go off on one of his rants. for example; when he was asked about being friends with the head of the KKK and about his questioning of the holocaust being a lie.
As the programme went on he became more twitchy and shifty. In my opinion that answered my worries about whether he should be allowed on a mainstream tv programme like Question Time. Nick Griffin can't handle an audience of people that aren't supporters of the BNP.
The best part of the programme, for me, was when Bonnie Greer said about indigenous people of Britain 17000 years ago. Nick Griffin said that the indigenous people of Britain have been forced out by people from the out side.
Bonnie Greer said that 17000 years ago the indigenous people of Britain were Neanderthals, and that modern people of Britain's ancestry came from the African Continent. If i read between the lines of what she said, she was saying Nick Griffin and his Party were neanderthals. Like it
This weeks Question Time has shown that Nick Griffin can't hold his own unless there is just pro BNP supporters in the audience.
Thursday, 22 October 2009
A letter about Llandudno Lifeboat
http://www.northwalesweeklynews.co.uk/views-blogs/readers-letters/2009/10/22/safety-efforts-mean-llandudno-lifeboat-crew-is-required-less-55243-24983705/
Above is a letter by a Mr Oakley Kelly, a very experienced lifeboatman from his letter the other week, putting his side of the argument about the lifeboat station being built on the promenade.
I hope people will listen to someone like Mr Kelly, and not to people like Mr Lawson Reay about the need for a new lifeboat station for Llandudno lifeboat on the promenade.
I have been looking for some articles about Llandudno lifeboat and i have found the following;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/7596637.stm
http://www.northwalesweeklynews.co.uk/conwy-county-news/your-champions/your-champions-archive/2008/10/20/llandudno-lifeboatman-tim-james-is-champion-of-champions-55243-22074390/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7643008.stm
The crew at Llandudno lifeboat station have recieved an award for their bravery in the rescue of that couple 30 miles off Llandudno. No one can doubt the bravery of the men and women of Llandudno lifeboat or the RNLI in general.
The Lifeboat station is small (see link), They need a new station, let them build it where they want.
http://www.llandudnolifeboat.org.uk/wpimages/wp80b1ba01.png
Like what Mr Kelly says in his letter;
Mr Reay refers to the "minions" at RNLI HQ. He should know that almost all of the senior operational staff at Poole were, at one time or another, Divisional Inspectors of Lifeboats covering Llandudno and the whole of the Western Division. They are the ones with all the operational experience to decide if and where to build a boathouse.
I guess that 99% of the RNLI 'minions' from Poole don't have a reason to come to Llandudno. Most of the employees will be office staff, people organising the equipment and storage of spares, the boat builders and repairers, computer IT department. Why would they need to come to Llandudno?
As Mr Lawson Reay knows the head lifeboatman at Poole came to Llandudno (See Link below) to a meeting of the North Wales Business club early this year. So they do come out of hiding now and again Mr Lawson Reay, so get your facts right before you knock anyone or any organisation.
http://www.northwalesweeklynews.co.uk/conwy-county-news/local-conwy-news/2009/06/18/llandudno-rnli-needs-new-lifeboat-house-55243-23902588/
I can't wait for Mr Lawson Reay's reply next week.
Above is a letter by a Mr Oakley Kelly, a very experienced lifeboatman from his letter the other week, putting his side of the argument about the lifeboat station being built on the promenade.
I hope people will listen to someone like Mr Kelly, and not to people like Mr Lawson Reay about the need for a new lifeboat station for Llandudno lifeboat on the promenade.
I have been looking for some articles about Llandudno lifeboat and i have found the following;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/7596637.stm
http://www.northwalesweeklynews.co.uk/conwy-county-news/your-champions/your-champions-archive/2008/10/20/llandudno-lifeboatman-tim-james-is-champion-of-champions-55243-22074390/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7643008.stm
The crew at Llandudno lifeboat station have recieved an award for their bravery in the rescue of that couple 30 miles off Llandudno. No one can doubt the bravery of the men and women of Llandudno lifeboat or the RNLI in general.
The Lifeboat station is small (see link), They need a new station, let them build it where they want.
http://www.llandudnolifeboat.org.uk/wpimages/wp80b1ba01.png
Like what Mr Kelly says in his letter;
Mr Reay refers to the "minions" at RNLI HQ. He should know that almost all of the senior operational staff at Poole were, at one time or another, Divisional Inspectors of Lifeboats covering Llandudno and the whole of the Western Division. They are the ones with all the operational experience to decide if and where to build a boathouse.
I guess that 99% of the RNLI 'minions' from Poole don't have a reason to come to Llandudno. Most of the employees will be office staff, people organising the equipment and storage of spares, the boat builders and repairers, computer IT department. Why would they need to come to Llandudno?
As Mr Lawson Reay knows the head lifeboatman at Poole came to Llandudno (See Link below) to a meeting of the North Wales Business club early this year. So they do come out of hiding now and again Mr Lawson Reay, so get your facts right before you knock anyone or any organisation.
http://www.northwalesweeklynews.co.uk/conwy-county-news/local-conwy-news/2009/06/18/llandudno-rnli-needs-new-lifeboat-house-55243-23902588/
I can't wait for Mr Lawson Reay's reply next week.
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
John Lawson Reay's experience?
http://www.northwalesweeklynews.co.uk/views-blogs/readers-letters/2009/10/15/i-am-qualified-to-talk-about-llandudno-lifeboat-location-55243-24929231/
Having read Jon Lawson Reay's letter in the weekly news this week (Link above), i am just wondering what experience he actually has.
John Lawson Reay says;
My experience, and things have not changed very much in 45 years, was for four years as a shore crew member of the lifeboat.
45 years ago things were a hell of a lot different, and 4 years as a shore crew member isn't what i call a lot of experience.
I would like to ask John Lawson Reay how many launches he was actually there for?
What did he do when he was at the launches?
The lifeboats from 45 years ago were the Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest 1959 - 1964 http://www.llandudnolifeboat.org.uk/wpimages/wp5c30ac8d.png
and the the Lilly Wainwright 1964 - 1990
http://www.llandudnolifeboat.org.uk/wpimages/wpd6ebc399.png
Having read Jon Lawson Reay's letter in the weekly news this week (Link above), i am just wondering what experience he actually has.
John Lawson Reay says;
My experience, and things have not changed very much in 45 years, was for four years as a shore crew member of the lifeboat.
45 years ago things were a hell of a lot different, and 4 years as a shore crew member isn't what i call a lot of experience.
I would like to ask John Lawson Reay how many launches he was actually there for?
What did he do when he was at the launches?
The lifeboats from 45 years ago were the Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest 1959 - 1964 http://www.llandudnolifeboat.org.uk/wpimages/wp5c30ac8d.png
and the the Lilly Wainwright 1964 - 1990
http://www.llandudnolifeboat.org.uk/wpimages/wpd6ebc399.png
Information gained from http://www.llandudnolifeboat.org.uk/index.html
Lifeboats of the past did their job very well, but technology moves on and things change, and so do lifeboats and lifeboat stations. The crew need better boats to keep them safer and new technology helps in the location of boats that are in danger.
I have been wondering a few things, John Lawson Reay is a photographer, i have been told, and I am wondering;
Did John Lawson Reay take pictures of the launches of the lifeboat?
Did he make any money from selling any pictures, and if so how much?
If John Lawson Reay did get paid for selling any pictures of the lifeboat, did he make any donations to the RNLI?
I will admit i am a supporter of the RNLI. A few years ago i was on Llandudno promenade and i saw the smaller boat get launched and they sped off towards the pier and then i saw them rush back. From what i saw they had a young man who was injured and they were giving him first aid. I didn't know how bad the man was but after about 10 minutes the helicopter landed and took the man away.
From what i saw those lifeboatmen worked very professionally and they most probably saved that man's life. From then on i became a supporter of the RNLI.
I would love to see a new lifeboat on the prom and i cannot see why a wall ( a listed building) stops it from being built.
I ask John Lawson Reay to stop his objection to the lifeboat and work with them. As you say you were a lifeboatman why not join them and help the new boathouse to be built.
Thursday, 15 October 2009
Leona Lewis Attacked
What possessed someone to wait hours in a queue just to hit Leona Lewis.
Leona Lewis is one of the sweetest, kindest and gentle people i have seen, yes i did go to the X factor tour.
I really feel for her. If i was there at the time that guy would be regretting what he did. I really hope the police take him to court and throw, not just the book, but the whole library at him.
Leona Lewis is one of the sweetest, kindest and gentle people i have seen, yes i did go to the X factor tour.
I really feel for her. If i was there at the time that guy would be regretting what he did. I really hope the police take him to court and throw, not just the book, but the whole library at him.
Llanduno Lifeboat Station and Friends V John Lawson Reay (SOS)
Over the last year or so i have been reading about Llandudno Lifeboat Station trying to build a new station on Llandudno Prom.
Now from what i have found out, John Lawson Reay and the SOS (Save Our Scenery) are against the building of the new station because it is close to a listed building, which is a wall.
Recently John Lawson Reay has been talking of the new station being built where the Llandudno sailing club is, but this isn't what Llandudno RNLI, and others, would want.
John Lawson Reay says he has been attacked for his position on his opposition to the new Lifeboat Station.
What i don't understand is that John Lawson Reay says he was a member of Llandudno Lifeboat Station, but why is he so against the station being built next to a wall, yes it is a listed building but it is still a wall.
I have a couple of friends who are related to some current crew members of Llandudno Lifeboat and i will write back with what i find out.
If anyone has more information comments are welcome.
Now from what i have found out, John Lawson Reay and the SOS (Save Our Scenery) are against the building of the new station because it is close to a listed building, which is a wall.
Recently John Lawson Reay has been talking of the new station being built where the Llandudno sailing club is, but this isn't what Llandudno RNLI, and others, would want.
John Lawson Reay says he has been attacked for his position on his opposition to the new Lifeboat Station.
What i don't understand is that John Lawson Reay says he was a member of Llandudno Lifeboat Station, but why is he so against the station being built next to a wall, yes it is a listed building but it is still a wall.
I have a couple of friends who are related to some current crew members of Llandudno Lifeboat and i will write back with what i find out.
If anyone has more information comments are welcome.
I cannot believe what this guy did.
I have just read this article and i am so mad with rage that if i meet him i will be in jail.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2684084/Lout-urinates-on-war-memorial.html
I hope the police arrest him and make him do something so humiliating he will never do anything like that again.
I don't care that he was drunk, in my eyes this guy is just scum.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2684084/Lout-urinates-on-war-memorial.html
I hope the police arrest him and make him do something so humiliating he will never do anything like that again.
I don't care that he was drunk, in my eyes this guy is just scum.
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Does Crime Pay?
Well if you are a politician you are.
I'm talking about Jacqui Smith. I know this has been talked about in other blogs, but i just had to have my say.
Jacqui Smith flipped her home and then received £116,000 over four years, when she allegedly was using a room in her sisters house as her main home.
She was found out, and yesterday instead of paying even some of the money back she was told to apologise to the House of Commons for defrauding the taxpayer. Is she feeling bad about defrauding the taxpayer, i doubt it. All she is feeling bad about is the fact that she was found out.
Well with a majority of about 2,000 votes i think we won't be seeing much of her after the election.
I would love to know how many MPs have actually become rich off the expenses system. For example they buy a house do it up with the second home allowences and then sell it for a profit.
A law for them and a law for the rest of us.
The British taxpayers have been mugged by some of these politicians.
I'm talking about Jacqui Smith. I know this has been talked about in other blogs, but i just had to have my say.
Jacqui Smith flipped her home and then received £116,000 over four years, when she allegedly was using a room in her sisters house as her main home.
She was found out, and yesterday instead of paying even some of the money back she was told to apologise to the House of Commons for defrauding the taxpayer. Is she feeling bad about defrauding the taxpayer, i doubt it. All she is feeling bad about is the fact that she was found out.
Well with a majority of about 2,000 votes i think we won't be seeing much of her after the election.
I would love to know how many MPs have actually become rich off the expenses system. For example they buy a house do it up with the second home allowences and then sell it for a profit.
A law for them and a law for the rest of us.
The British taxpayers have been mugged by some of these politicians.
Thursday, 8 October 2009
Things that make me smile.
I was sent two links today on my email and both of them made me smile.
They aren't jokes, but more of a comeuppance to so called hard, in your face, scum you see on our streets nowadays.
The first is of a home owner standing his ground while being shouted at by a 'hard' in your face youth. In the video he shouts and swears at the home owner threatening him and trying to get him to fight.
See what happens and see how hard this hard man really is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oefo00eB_1Q
The other one is about what looks like a night out and a couple of drunken youths fighting and then walking away. As they walk away they start on some cross dressers, but what they don't realise is that the two cross dressers are actually cage fighters. oh dear me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCE5VbgpP3I
Now just to let you know i don't like violence, and i would rather walk away from anything that may become violent, but what these two got for trying to be hard men made me smile. Getting what's coming to you, comes to mind.
They aren't jokes, but more of a comeuppance to so called hard, in your face, scum you see on our streets nowadays.
The first is of a home owner standing his ground while being shouted at by a 'hard' in your face youth. In the video he shouts and swears at the home owner threatening him and trying to get him to fight.
See what happens and see how hard this hard man really is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oefo00eB_1Q
The other one is about what looks like a night out and a couple of drunken youths fighting and then walking away. As they walk away they start on some cross dressers, but what they don't realise is that the two cross dressers are actually cage fighters. oh dear me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCE5VbgpP3I
Now just to let you know i don't like violence, and i would rather walk away from anything that may become violent, but what these two got for trying to be hard men made me smile. Getting what's coming to you, comes to mind.
Saturday, 3 October 2009
How Long is a Life Sentence?
A couple of ('scum of the earth') youths, , savagely, beat up and kill a father of five.
They get put on trial and found guilty, and get sentenced to life imprisonment.
Job done.
But it isn't, because they are up for parole after just 11 and 13 years. That isn't a life sentence.
A life sentence, to me, should be a minimum of 25-30 years before they are up for parole.
What those two youths did to that poor man was beyond savage. Add to that that they didn't even show any remorse shows that those two scum should never be let out of prison. They are a danger to the public.
When they sentence people, the judges should have basic guidelines for sentencing.
For example;
If it is premeditated murder or murder with malice, the sentence should be something like 25 years (until eligible for parole) up to life without parole (where they die in prison), which those two scum should of received.
The whole sentencing system for courts and magistrates should be reassessed. The American system of 'three strikes' where if you are found guilty for a third (felony) offence you are sentenced to life without parole. Maybe the British system can use something like this as a template for the more serious of crimes, from assault to burglary to fraud, for example.
Each time you are found guilty the sentence increases, and if you are found guilty for a third time for a serious offence, the sentence should be at the very least 15-25 years.
I don't know how to stop what is happening in our streets, but there needs to be a deterrent out there because criminals are getting away with murder, quite literally.
On another subject, it will be interesting to see what the judge will sentence those three scum paedophiles to. If it is anything below 20-25 years then there will be uproar.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/6250989/Nursery-worker-Vanessa-George-judge-asks-her-to-reveal-identities-of-victims.html
I really don't want to write too much about this because i get so angry and upset.
I haven't got any children of my own, but i am very protective of my nephews, nieces and my friends children, and the thought of someone hurting them, well anger will be an understatement.
They get put on trial and found guilty, and get sentenced to life imprisonment.
Job done.
But it isn't, because they are up for parole after just 11 and 13 years. That isn't a life sentence.
A life sentence, to me, should be a minimum of 25-30 years before they are up for parole.
What those two youths did to that poor man was beyond savage. Add to that that they didn't even show any remorse shows that those two scum should never be let out of prison. They are a danger to the public.
When they sentence people, the judges should have basic guidelines for sentencing.
For example;
If it is premeditated murder or murder with malice, the sentence should be something like 25 years (until eligible for parole) up to life without parole (where they die in prison), which those two scum should of received.
The whole sentencing system for courts and magistrates should be reassessed. The American system of 'three strikes' where if you are found guilty for a third (felony) offence you are sentenced to life without parole. Maybe the British system can use something like this as a template for the more serious of crimes, from assault to burglary to fraud, for example.
Each time you are found guilty the sentence increases, and if you are found guilty for a third time for a serious offence, the sentence should be at the very least 15-25 years.
I don't know how to stop what is happening in our streets, but there needs to be a deterrent out there because criminals are getting away with murder, quite literally.
On another subject, it will be interesting to see what the judge will sentence those three scum paedophiles to. If it is anything below 20-25 years then there will be uproar.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/6250989/Nursery-worker-Vanessa-George-judge-asks-her-to-reveal-identities-of-victims.html
I really don't want to write too much about this because i get so angry and upset.
I haven't got any children of my own, but i am very protective of my nephews, nieces and my friends children, and the thought of someone hurting them, well anger will be an understatement.
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