Thanks to Danny Fulbrook of BBC News Online for the Headline
The demonstration to block the entrance to the large distribution site for Lidl supermarkets was to protest for fairer food prices. I am pleased it has raised the profile of their campaign and I hope the other supermarket chains such as Sainsburys, Marks and Spencers, Waitrose , Tesco’s Aldi and Morrisons all take note.
In order to guarantee animal welfare we need to ensure that the process of growing food and looking after animals is not loss making. We all have a responsibility for this.
Only do shopping lists, and they are not fun, they are tedious and the effort of shopping is monotonous. Apologies it was raining all day yesterday and I’ve got the dishes to do.
Thanks to George Torr at BBC Online News for the Headline
Apparently the Personal Protective Clothing(PPE) that was issued to four officers on the training for dealing with petrol bombs was defective and caused them to suffer burns which resulted in them having to go to hospital , but thankfully they have recovered and have now returned to normal duties.
PPE has a lifespan and unfortunately those four sets of PPE had reached the end.
The Police Force was sued by the Health and Safety Executive as they didn’t do a proper risk assessment. Thankfully this issue has now been addressed and all training has been reviewed and presumably equipment will be checked before being handed out. I suppose this is important for when the Police are called out on duty for any incident.
Thanks to Melanie McDonagh from the Standard Online for the Headline
Youth employment has been hit severely by the change in cost structures introduced by various governments, which, while trying to improve the conditions for lower paid workers have been used by employers, particularly in retail, hospitality and entry-level jobs for first time workers to reduce the numbers employed on the basis of the cost to them.
The article suggests transferring benefits that older people in London get for a travel card that enables them on some occasions to travel free throughout the day or possibly just at off peak times to young people who are going to interviews of indeed travelling to work. Frankly I think this is robbing Peter to pay Paul.
However, let’s look at employers calling “foul”. If a young person can do the job then they should be paid to do that job at an agreed rate. If you cannot run your business and employ people fairly, in good conditions and with rewards and training to continuously improve then you shouldn’t be allowed to employ people. That is the other side of the coin. If anyone needs help to travel then they should be considered for help, if it allows them to achieve their goal.
I’m very sensitive to smells in microwaves, indeed I never used “work” microwaves in shared kitchens for this very reason.
We all would occasionally say to someone who was cooking particularly “pungent spicy ” food, my that ‘s a bit strong, but think no more of it. We certainly wouldn’t think that we would get sued for mentioning it.
It tended to be the teenage young men who particularly liked the supermarket bought curry who were the worse culprits as they very often didn’t clean the orange stains plastered to the sides and ceiling of the said microwave and worse the overspill onto the bottom of the microwave. Hence my reluctance to use the microwave.
Still the case in America was a bit different, the husband and wife involved in the case are both tertiary degree Anthropologists and part of the settlement was that they would be allowed to graduate from the University they sued as long as they promised not to return. Interesting request.
I think that to call it food racism is a a bit flavoursome, or just plainly wrong. I mean some people associate garlic with French cooking , but it’s in all sorts of cooking and anyway how about poor Anne of Cleeves who the Dogsbody Papers claimed used the smell of Garlic to put Henry “off” consumating her marriage to him when in fact it was he just didn’t fancy her. That Garlic story entered the realms of history and to this day some people still believe it.
Thanks to Kate Whannel Political Reporter, BBC Online News for the Headline
I hate to promote “Brand Farage” any further than is necessary, but this headline caught my eye Apparently it’s alright for him to have breached MP’s rules 17 times by failing to register financial interests totalling £384,000 within the 28-day limit . He won’t even get detention or have to write out 500 lines of I will not do it again.
Apparently the parliamentary commissioner for standards said that the breaches were “inadvertent”.
Oh well, I don’t get a chance to even take my pension without HMRC assuming I am taking a second income and taking money off me without checking that in fact it was my only source of income and that their actions would cause me financial distress despite my appeal. I suppose that was inadvertent too and really not worth bothering about. No parliamentary investigation about that eh? Or for the 6,000,000 other UK dwellers affected.
However, back to the “head in the clouds” Parliament. I checked the biography of this said parliamentary commissioner and yes ,he may be an expert in Law, but accepting apologies which he did from Mr Farage and acknowledging Mr Farage’s inability with computers and Mr Farage’s ability to blame anyone but himself strikes me as naïve and yes perhaps in his world it was’ ‘inadvertent.’ I suspect the parliamentary commissioner is not very good with computers either.
In my World, we have an MP who is paid a good salary and has entitlement to a pension normal people would sell their soul for. He also has significant financial interests in the outside World which do often conflict with his role as an MP. Why would he want to spend time in his constituency when he’s got bigger fish to fry? Not to mention what he is being paid for by the likes of Google and other Social Media Outlets for his self-promotion of his own ideas. I’m afraid Parliament to Mr Farage is just a vehicle to promote his bigger plans, just like his role as an MEP was.
He cannot take responsibility for his errors and plays his “I’m a good fellow, know nothing about computers” card and guffaw in the private members bar after that he got away with it . Many of his supporters would be guffawing in the bar with him , if they were allowed to.
Actually this is such a bad example of behavior to everyone that “standards” , parliamentary or not result in a deterioration in the understanding of what is right. Perhaps the Parliamentary Commissioner is over qualified and they should get a good cost accountant in to do a work study on Mr Farage and see if his efforts are appropriate to his role.
Also let’s move Parliament to Milton Keynes with serviced office and serviced accomodation while we’re at it.
The little guy has to understand many things that are strange to him, but one that one thing that I hope he understands(and after sometime with us I think he does)is that we care for him and have his best interests at heart.
Oops Friends of the Earth say that Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole Council is guilty of “poor management and shambolic administration of the trees in the Lower Middle and Upper Gardens in the town centre.
This is a heritage site, soon there’s not going to be any heritage here. Or something similar the F of E man said, the quote, which I think was AI generated didn’t really make much sense.
Anyway said Councils are at fault for not replacing dead, diseased or weather damaged trees, in addition they have not been keeping a record of what is happening to the trees and presumably the wildlife that are attracted to live healthy trees.
The Council on the other hand say they have a programme for tree replacement in place.
So where does this leave the good people of the area, well treeless I suppose.
Thanks to AI for generating quite an artful picture which tells the story.
Thanks to Georgie Docker at BBC Online News for the Headline
Let’s face it banning anything makes it more attractive and therefore something that people want more than anything else.
As the article quite rightly says , schools can block ‘inappropriate content’ on mobile phones while the children are in school, so why can’t the Big Companies who run Social Media do the same.
I think the current Australian Government are living in Cloud Cuckoo Land if they think they’re going to turn their young people away from the attractions of sitting in their bedroom, having pointless conversations about nothing, sending risque pictures for the want of anything better to do or discussing the best way to shape your eye brows or pout, when they could be out surfing or skateboarding in the sunshine. I mean where’s the competition?
Who knows, the debate will go on, but when a young person falls foul of Social Media this debate or it’s final decision whichever way it goes cannot be held responsible for individual tragedy. There are things out with the control of the people who are not in control, there is no omnipotent being to protect everyone. If there was they wouldn’t be discussing a ban.
Yes, if there is a will by the Social Media Companies then there is a way. That remains to be seen when they are looking at their clicks or advertising revenue.
Thanks to AI for the picture, it’s rather good don’t you think?
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