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Come Inside... => The Commons => Topic started by: Snoopy on November 27, 2008, 12:15:42 PM
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Blunkett urges mass volunteering
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7751832.stm
David Blunkett has written a report for Gordon Brown suggesting that "Everyone between the ages of 16 and 25 should do at least six months of "intensive" voluntary work"
The Labour MP said such a scheme would foster a "sense of belonging" among young people.
Mr Blunkett said it would also demonstrate that "we have to do things for ourselves", as the global economic crisis develops.
In fact just like all those MPs who work for the common good and get paid huge salaries these "volunteers" will be press ganged into working for the common good ~ the only difference is that they will be paid dole money and he will continue to pick up a huge salary.
Why not bring back National Service and have done with it ~ that way you would create a huge army of workers to sort out our roads, railways, canals, farms et al ~ Oh, hang on .... Didn't a certain Mr Hitler have the same idea?
Well I don't suppose anyone will remember ~ it was all so long ago.
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I see nothing wrong with 'voluntary work' which triggers slightly higher benefit payments for example.
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Neither do I DS ~ it is the liberal use of the words "Everyone" and "Should" that start the doubts for me.
Community Service Orders are handed down to various miscreants. They are set to work in the community doing jobs that these volunteers would be doing. They are reluctant to perform the allotted tasks and will do anything to fvck up the job. We responded to a plea from the local Probation Service to provide "indoor" work for some of these characters. We asked that they be sent to paint the Village Hall. We had to pay out £thousands to put right the damage.
I can see Blunkett's press ganged volunteers doing the same.
Let's not forget this is the man that invented the "Plastic Copper" AKA The Community Police Support Officers. He has a record of looking to do everything on the cheap.
I do a lot in the "voluntary sector" because I want to ~ if someone said I HAD to then I would stop.
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Blunkett is dangerous. Let's not forget these ideas of his have all been tried before. He is the man that came up with the ideas of ID cards, pseudo policeman who have only the power to observe and report, then there was the "citizenship test", the oaths of allegiance for anyone wanting to belong, the tanks at Heathrow, internment without trial and without notification of charge, 'anti-social behaviour orders' targeted on the undeserving poor in the name of the deserving poor, increasingly frantic attempts (in the face of sturdy judicial opposition) to reduce asylum-seekers to destitution, the death by a thousand cuts of the presumption of innocence and trial by jury ~ the list goes on and on.
I am reminded of a famous piece by Pastor Martin Niemoller
"In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;
And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up."
I really do not jest when I say Blunkett is dangerous. He would, of course, deny any thoughts of "National Socialism" but I for one would not believe him.
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AND TODAY WE HEAR
Senior Tory angered by his arrest. Damian Green MP
Under legislation brought in by Blunkett a senior Tory Frontbench spokesman is arrested, held for 9 hours, his office and homes are searched ~ because he did his job and told us facts that the Government didn't want us to know. No national security involved. Same legislation and same denials that "It was nothing to do with us" from Labour leaders as when they had an old man arrested for calling Jack Straw a liar at an open political meeting. Britain under NU-labour gets more like Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe than ever.
Oh and the reason for Mr Green's arrest "on suspicion of conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office".
Basically he was supplied with information by someone within the Home Officer that he then made public by asking questions in the House ~ which I would have thought covered him by parliamentary privilege alone, but the Met, on Ian Blair's last day, decided was a possible criminal offence.
And the information he disclosed?
* The November 2007 revelation that the home secretary knew the Security Industry Authority had granted licences to 5,000 illegal workers, but decided not to publicise it.
* The February 2008 news that an illegal immigrant had been employed as a cleaner in the House of Commons.
* A whips' list of potential Labour rebels in the vote on plans to increase the pre-charge terror detention limit to 42 days.
* A letter from the home secretary warning that a recession could lead to a rise in crime.
In other words he showed that the Home Office ministers were lying through their teeth.
"Downing Street" claims it knew nothing BUT the Acting Commissioner Of the Met had thought to phone Boris Johnson and David Cameron before his officers acted. He was advised by Boris, so we are told, that such actions were "unheard of and incredible".
And they didn't tell Home Secretary Jacqui Smith? ~ pull the other one.
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Re: Blunkett
Not forgetting that he also had to resign twice for conduct unbecoming ::)
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So did Mandelson, and look where he is now!
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So did Mandelson, and look where he is now!
That's Lord Mandleson to you... noooo:
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What is to become of us all (https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fscared003.gif&hash=f1d4b0cc865ffe650379fbd410c69314bc0b5bd0)
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What is to become of us all (https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fscared003.gif&hash=f1d4b0cc865ffe650379fbd410c69314bc0b5bd0)
This (http://thylacosmilus.blogspot.com/2008/11/excellence-in-community-policing.html)
Police raided a 79-year-old widow's Highland cottage after mistaking her tomato plants for a cannabis factory, it was reported.
Any excuse; bin too full, growing tomatoes, smoking, taking pictures, chucking a fag out of your car window, being fat, anything to arrest you and get the numbers up. Anything apart from actually committing crime of course... noooo:
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Tomato Plant (Alicante variety for those interested)
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Cannabis Plant
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Should have gone to
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To the untrained eye though they do look similar. A lot of the extended Wench family has been hoodwinked.
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What, they went out for tomatoes and came back with cannabis?
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To the untrained eye though they do look similar. A lot of the extended Wench family has been hoodwinked.
Well I suppose they are both green ::)
FFS they smell completely different anyway. (Ah! Bag/cat/out there I feel redface:)
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To the untrained eye though they do look similar. A lot of the extended Wench family has been hoodwinked.
Well I suppose they are both green ::)
FFS they smell completely different anyway. (Ah! Bag/cat/out there I feel redface:)
noooo:
I feel a new thread coming on...
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I'm sure it's purely for medicinal purposes.
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Not for some years.
Main source of supply was in Tottenham from some West Indians I used to play dominoes with. They in turn used to get it from the local nick (Evidence room allegedly) whistle: