Judging The Jury

Morning,

I see that there a survey out this morning in regards to juries and the way that they help or dare I say hinder the criminal justice process.

The main and concerning aspect of the survey is that some 2 out of 3 individuals say that do not understand the legal jargon that is used during trials.

That may be the case, however can you think of a better and fairer criminal process than trial by jury?

Didn't think so.


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Playtime!

Evening,

Have this evening started my holiday which runs for just under two weeks, though I'm working on Sunday as it's double time and it's a nice break in the hegemony of the holiday - doing fuck all as normal!

Watching Newswipe with the irrascible Charlie Brooker at the moment, have heard a lot about this through Brooker's own Twitter feed so we thought we'd have a peruse at this, must watch this more often!


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Black Propaganda...

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Alternative Universe

I have thought ever since Chairman Brown came up with the idea of a debate regarding electoral reform that it was a ruse for him to try to save his and Labour’s arses at any potential General Election. 

Electoral Reform is one of the Liberal Democrats main projects, for what seems to have been an eternity – the thinking that if Brown was to get some sort of reform up and running before any election, that in the likelihood of a hung parliament that he could squeeze in with the Lib Dems in some form of so-called Liberal Coalition.

Because let’s be blunt here.  If Labour was on course for another hundred-plus majority would the party be any more interested in electoral reform than it was when Roy Jenkins' Royal Commission reported back in 1998? Of course not.

 

 

Flood Of Guilt...

I see that both Chairman Brown and former Propaganda minister Campbell are in the news for breaking down in front of the cameras...

It is inevitable that when discussions meander towards the death of anyone’s daughter – that the parent is going to be emotional about it.  However, from what I have seen of the Campbell interview on Auntie this morning, it did not seem that the interview was being that bruising.

I cannot help but feel a sense of media manipulation on the side of Campbell in this case...

Vicious Circle...Returned

Morning,

I am at the gym trying to get all the anger out of my system following a major kick off with predominantly my sister and latterly my mother last night. It all stems from a day out that I had with a few friends at Bluewater - I thought I was a bit of a shopper and yet one of my good mates spent £125 on a pair of Ugg boots, those woollen ones which we thought would cost about £25 more than that!

Anyhow, the frustration for me is that they have no problems spending money ad infinitum and I do. I thought that spending the levels that I did was pretty excessive - and yet I have my sister who takes off me in excess of £200 every month - purely for her bills but in a way because I'm a fucking fool.

Now, I said last night that I wanted a break from the status quo and spending what is in essence about 40% of my wages every month on rent and keeping my sister cushy.

Because I want to leave home, my sister called me some pretty nasty stuff. That in itself caused me to drag up some nasty stuff from a long time ago. So not useful for anyone.

What this does to me however is this: it puts me in a position that I vowed I wouldn't be put in. The position that, I am in their eyes screwing them over, instead of actually doing what the majority of people my age do - fly the nest. It seems in their opinion, anyone who does that must be a selfish cunt. Their words not mine!

Haven't got a clue what I'm going to do from here!

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Closer To The Truth?

Morning,

I see that the former attorney general, Lord Goldsmith is in front of the Iraq enquiry as I write this. The question that everyone wants to know is that whether or not he was ever put under any form of pressure to change his mind regarding whether or not in his eyes, any charge into war was legal or illegal.

One minute it was illegal, next it was legal.

What, or probably more pertinently whom made him change his mind and why did he change his mind?

Should be an interesting day...


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So That’s That...

The Iraq war was not legal...

So now that’s clear, when does the war crime trials begin?

Not holding my breath on that one...

Could Be Worse...

Morning,

All kicked off at home yet again this morning, just before I left for some overtime at work, she has no money following her expedition to Tesco out of town yesterday. She had previously given me the £20 that I gave her for some emergencies - during the recent blast from the East.

You do not need to guess what I have subsequently done! Luckily, there are no Badminton courts avaliable for tomorrow night, so I don't need to spend as much as I thought I would. So I've got about a tenner to live on up till Thursday when I get paid.

Still it could be oh so worse...


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Dropping Into The Shitter...

Evening,

Not for the first time in his leadership, and I use that term extremely loosely – Chairman Brown yesterday made an ridiculous and wrong calculation.  By agreeing to give evidence in the Iraq Enquiry being held by Lord Chilcott before the inevitable anal-fisting fucking that Labour are going to get at the General Election – he is risking making Labour’s performance at that impending election even worse than what the polls are saying they are going to be already.  That is so fucking clever, Gordon.

Of course it was Chairman Brown’s idea to have an enquiry into the whole face behind the biggest militaristic fuck-up, this side of Suez.  Not that you would think it was a enquiry.  I saw Jack Straw take questions from the panel and it all seemed a bit too la-di-da for my liking.  At one point when one of the panellists was coughing like he was going to go down the Jade Goody route, Comrade Jack, offered him a fucking cough-sweet. 

A FUCKING COUGH-SWEET.  The fucking twat, like the rest of that spineless cabinet at the time, should be cooped up in a 9x6 jail deep in the Hague for their fucking crimes.

Now, one of my main reasons that I think that Mr Brown has made such a seismic fuck of a decision is that next week, the former vicar of that Parish is going to be taking evidence before that enquiry.  Mr Blair, will no doubt be only be too happy to throw some of the blame of the war happening the way that it did at his arch-nemesis.  Naturally...

One further observation that I have seen about the Chilcott inquiry, which make Gordon’s decision all the more absurd.  It has linked him to the inner circle who decided on our Iraq policy in a way that no one has before, its also bringing in yet more of the current Labour Cabinet in to the spot light too, and right before the General Election.  There are some who should be worried about keeping their seats at the table, let alone going for the corpse...

But the inquiry has also had the opposite effect of disconnecting the current Conservative leadership and their party from the decision completely. Gordon Brown never had a political antennae to speak of, but leaving the General Election to run along side this inquiry has got to rank up there with some of his other dreadful political judgements.  Leaving Brown drowning in his own shit...

Lessons Learnt...

Morning,

I see the newspapers have gone big on the South Yorkshire children attack by those two brothers, going down the same old fucking tack as Call Me Dave - no doubt putting their own fucking prejudices in front of their clued-up, or in the case of the Scum or Fail, clueless readers/retards (delete accordingly...)

Remember the perpetrators are children, they deserve and warrant the same treatment as would be given to murderers and Paedophiles. We as a society should be judged not just how we treat victims of crimes, but the guilty of such heinous crimes.

As I stated last night, the way that the murderers of James Bulger were dealt with, is a case in point and is seen by many in social services as the way to deal with such offenders.

Let them have their anonimity and allow them to try and rebuild their own lives, which up to now have been nothing short of disgusting. Perhaps it will start making the intelligensia wonder what makes those children from working class communities do such acts of barbarism.

20 years since that murder of James, and still the working classes are ignored...


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Substantial To Severe...

It’s just broken on the news channels that Britain’s terror level has been raised from there being a strong possibility chance of a attack on the UK or its interests abroad to highly likely.  The Home Secretary has just made a pre-recorded statement for the channels – looking very dapper for a Friday evening...

Makes sense...there is an election due within a few weeks...

Perhaps they should introduce the same kind of threat levels for the British economy.  Right now we’d be at CRITICAL with an imminent threat of a George Osborne attack on the British economy.

Saying that though, Labour, by falsifying intelligence, have shown they cannot be trusted. They’ve earned this situation where any and all such pronouncements of EXTREME TERROR DEATH ALERT must be treated with pronounced scepticism or outright hostility.

Anything to stop Chairman Brown meeting his maker...

Like Blair Before Him...Cameron The Opportunist...

Nobody can help but be appalled by the shocking case regarding the two brothers who were convicted today for their part in a sadistic assault of two young children in South Yorkshire.  Although it has not had the blanket media coverage that other sickening cases have had in the past, such as the murder of James Bulger or the case of Mary Bell before that, it is another shocking example of just how evil some children can be – albeit not helped by the brutal upbringing that they have had.

However, the way that the politicians of this country have reacted to the case is similar to both of the cases mentioned above.  In the aftermath of the Bulger trial, which was the first trial that I can vividly remember, if only for the mob mentality that there was outside Preston Crown Court the evening that those two young boys were led away to spend time in a secure home – what is only being mentioned now is the way Tony Blair, back then the Shadow Home Secretary reacted to the case.

Blair was rightly condemned for getting involved at the time for using the death of a child for political advantage.  The argument that the torture and murder of Bulger by two ten-year-old boys was a symbol of the decline of Britain under the Tories was morally and empirically unsound.  I think the term that Blair used back then was that the murder was "a hammer blow against the sleeping conscience of the nation".  Such attacks take place without reason or pattern.  They are, thankfully, too rare to tell us much about the state of the nation.

So for Cameron to go on the attack for exactly the same reason is somewhat concerning.  Is there anything at all, that politicians have learnt in the intervening twenty or so years?  Highlighting individual cases such as Cameron and Blair previously did does nothing at all to help, in fact it hinders such work.  The hysterical response of the Scum and other tabloids to the death of Baby P led to a social work recruitment crisis that continues to endanger children.

Also there is another point to be made regarding the Bulger case, which is very important.  Regardless of how brutal and disgusting the assault was on those two children – these two who committed this attack are themselves children.  If there is a precedent for the reform and rehabilitation of child criminals publicly assumed to be fundamentally evil and beyond all form of help that the state could give, then it comes in the form of Jon Venables and Robert Thompson.  For in the aftermath after their conviction their abduction and murder of James Bulger, the 10-year-olds were not just deprived of their liberty but put through a comprehensive programme of psychotherapy, education and consistent, strict discipline.

Within eight years being convicted the then-teenagers – equipped with A-levels and an ability to speak fluently about emotions and remorse – convinced parole boards that they were ready to be freed.  The brothers behind the Edlington torture case are the most notorious British child criminals since Venables and Thompson.  As much as Mr Cameron would like to use this for political advantage, and as hard as it might be for their victims' families to accept, it is possible that they could turn their lives around...

The Poster Dave Won’t Endorse...

With thanks to Andy Barefoot, make your own here.

Not Thinking...

I had put a few articles both this morning and this evening regarding matters surrounding my life.

However I was not thinking clearly at both times.  An example of not writing your thoughts when you’re emotional in those cases.  As a direct consequence of this, I have deleted these posts.

Lesson to you all.

Night, Night!

Some Home Truths...

Good Evening,

I was going to discuss the forthcoming election in this country, however as with all things it seems right now – things are somewhat forced by events in my own personal life and I want to take this opportunity with a day off tomorrow, to do some soul-searching via the medium of this blog.

As I watch the game against the Yids at the Coliseum this evening, it has become apparent that both my mother and sister are sniping at the sidelines at each other for the most retarded of reasons – now I haven’t exactly had the best day at work, so it is not what is really wanted by myself at this moment in time. 

I have to think carefully about what I say on this blog, because I think I have made it pretty clear that I do say some controversial things on this blog – about my political, religious and ideological viewpoints, the way that I see the world around me, from my family and friends and how I interact with them, to how other people treat each other – and try to use this space that I have to give out my own form of a manifesto for life.

The main thing that I have been criticised by some of my peers, is that I am constantly at the beck and call of my family – this is hard to explain and I cannot any longer treat this blog with the reverence that I have done in the past without explaining some home truths. 

I will not be revealing any this evening, because I am a bit emotional right now, and I have found to my cost, in recent times that posts and longer essays should be best done when you are in a clear mind, with no negative vibes going on your head, because that is when you can be at your most clear and concise, without any bullshit smudging the words.

What I will say however is this, what I am going to be revealing is things that are not nice, however I think it is time, that they are known – there are people that I have known for years who do not have a clue at the life that I have had. 

I believe that it is time that they know just why I am who I am.

That Monday Feeling...

Morning,

Really don't want to head into work this morning - just feels like it was yesterday that I was leaving work on Saturday afternoon.

Still I'm not going to have a day off now until the 30th January - the weekend after I get paid.

Think the Red Bull might be useful this morning...


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The Elephant In The Room

Afternoon,

There has been much back-slapping and self-congratulatory comment from various Labour Ministers in the past week, regarding the notion that ethnic minorities are not as prejudiced against now, as compared to 10 years ago.  All very good, I would say – however what cannot be said is that the government has done much in regards of getting rid of the discrimination that still exists – probably more so than it did 10 years back – Class.

To say that a person’s race affects their opportunities in society less than factors such as class and gender is now, I think, to state the obvious. In a way it is also a welcome development because it shows our society has become much more progressive on race issues: though it’s still a problem that how much a child’s parents earn still matters.

In many parts of the country, but particularly down here in the South, educational attainment and health outcomes are still shaped strongly by socio-economic status and social class.  The elephant in the room is something that up till now, this government has failed in its responsibility to work towards a classless society.  That disadvantage can be a greater handicap than the prejudice that is experienced by some people from minority ethnic groups.

One of the most fundamental questions that surrounds this issue however is this.

Why is it only now that this Labour Government has decided to start talking about the White Working Class, when it has had almost 13 years to work towards the classless society that those of us on the Left yearn for?

The answer has to be Political expediency.

Labour has so far attempted to force social mobility upon the country with headline grabbing stunts such as compelling Oxbridge to take candidates with lower grades. What possible benefit can be gained from such a policy other than the further dilution of university degrees and sub-standard graduates who will ultimately fail in the world of work? Surely the best way to create a more open society is to look lower down the failing education system.

The bottom line is that if you are white – and working-class  – Britain is not necessarily such a pleasant land. Whereas ethnic minorities, especially those who have arrived relatively recently, tend to have high aspirations, stable homes and make great sacrifices to ensure the best education for their children, the same culture does not pervade white working-class families. Their children, particularly the boys, have for many years been out-performed at school by virtually every other social group, and the decline in heavy industrial jobs that once offered a livelihood to young men with no qualifications has compounded their disadvantages. 

But the current Labour leadership just don’t get it.  Most of them are now privately educated, do not come from a trades union background, have little or no connection with working-class people and are increasingly connected to other areas of business, industry and commerce, including the legal profession, and have become professional politicians without any experience of business, industry and commerce.  Hence why yesterday, we saw Chairman Brown desperately seeking the support of the middle-classes – they would rather those nice mummies and daddies vote for them than the underclass who truly needs the government support in the current economic climate.  But that would be too difficult for Brown to do...

It is impossible not to take a cynical view of Mr Denham's somewhat belated recognition of the parlous position of the white working classes. These are the traditional supporters of Labour's heartland, the "core vote" that Gordon Brown is desperate to retain, who feel badly let down by the Government and are turning to the BNP. 

It will rank as one of the greatest stains on his premiership that such extremists were able to gain an electoral foothold in our country – for in the end, that is the true legacy of Labour's years in power.

 

A Bit Inappropriate!

Just seen this lying on the pavement down the road from where we live...

It is in regards to some form of get together of one of those happy-clappy Christian groups.


The Arabic Translation for 'The Base' is Al-Qaeda...

Whoops!

Contradictions...

Afternoon,

Why is it that Chairman Brown has been spending the most part of today trying to shore up the middle class voters that New Labour got back in 1997.  Surely even he knows that, that is a waste of time and effort on his part! 

He has said that the party wants to create "more middle class jobs than ever before".  But by saying what he has said this afternoon, he is almost certainly making sure that the core support of the party, the working classes are going to continue to disaffected by the way that the party continues to whore itself to any fucker who is willing to pay.  Just like 1997...

By stating that he is not going to wage a class war in the upcoming election, he is pretty much tossing away the votes of the working class into the hands of the Liberal Democrats or worse still, the far right.

He has also said that he expects only 10% of the jobs created in the next decade will be “unskilled” but it is those unskilled workers of which the party should be caring about the most and not the fucking stuck-up, look up their fucking nose to the underclass middle-classes.

It is fucking obvious to everyone, except Chairman Brown – that New Labour in it’s current form is dead.  Fuck the middle classes, and fuck the fucking bankers – and start concentrating on supporting the very people of whom the party was set up for in the first place.

The Workers.