NO BRAIN DAY
Just to show that it isn't only Bexley councillors who don't have the brains they were born with, I thought I would return to the issue of councils issuing fines, summonses and carrying out other pointless exercises in the enforcement of mindless regulations in the face of common sense.
Last July, I highlighted the case of Oxford City Council issuing fines of up to £2,500 to homeless people who have no money or assets. That edition also referred to the earlier case where Tower Hamlets Council issued a £150 fine to a five year old girl for illegally selling lemonade from a roadside stall.
Here we have Leicester City Council issuing a £70 fine to a motorist for stopping his car in a bus stop on Christmas Day when there were no buses running. The poor fellow was doing a Good Samaritan act by giving a homeless man some food and clothing: he should have know better. Homeless people should be given fines, not charity. Serves the fool right.
BULLY BOYS IN BLUE.
Sadly, it seems that the practice of using the Police Force as private enforcers and bully boys by local politicians in order to stifle and silence criticism is not only a problem for Bexley residents. Malcolm Knight, author of "Bexley is Bonkers" blog has been on the receiving end of this treatment on a number of occassions by Bexley Police and is currently facing a court hearing as a result of Kent Police jumping through hoops at the behest of another Bexley councillor.
There is now this story of how Suffolk resident Tony Boxford was threatened by his local Police who turned up at his home making vague threats against him after he made comments about how the council was spending residents tax money. There is also a case pending against another person (I don't know his name at the moment) but is allegedly being considered for prosecution when he reported that a local community group was lying about being a registered charity when they weren't.
JUST WHEN HE THOUGHT THINGS
COULDN'T GET ANY WORSE..........................
Poor Jeremy Corbyn; with the Tories in complete disarray over Brexit and a leader that couldn't find her arse with a map; he should be cruising ahead in the polls. Unfortunately, he still can't let go of his instinctual kow-towing to the Kremlin's anti-EU stance left over from the cold war and isn't able to offer up any credible opposition to the "let's fly headlong into disaster" position of his Brexiteer opponents. Then, to cap it all, Gerry Adams backs him as the next Prime Minister.
What is he going to have to do to change his luck?
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