Tag Archives: Jobsworth

How the left loves to censor free speech.

By scrubber | Published: February 8, 2011
Daniel Hannan has written about this several times, and he’s right, the left does love to censor free speech. He writes here and here about the hypocrisy of the left, and the way it uses insults and spittle-flecked invective to sully its opponents. However, today I want to draw readers’ attention to an article in today’s [...]
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I’m sorry, but it’s Company Policy, Sir…

By scrubber | Published: October 16, 2010
A little personal anecdote here, which perfectly illustrates the nonsense we have to deal with every day, and which infects every layer of our society in a million tiny ways. I steeled my soul, and braved the hordes of be-studded, tattooed, work-shy land-whales and their snot-nosed illegitimate children; the out-of-work Kurds, Bulgarians and sundry be-tanned EU [...]
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Woman not allowed to take dog on bus on religious grounds

By DiamondGeezer | Published: June 25, 2010
Instalment number two of ‘The World’s Gone Mad’ is this example, again from the Telegraph. Judith Woods has twice in the last week been refused access to a bus because she wanted to take a dog with her. As far as my experience goes, you’re always allowed to take dogs on buses, unless they’re particularly [...]
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Greater Manchester Police record snowball fights as ’serious violent crime’

By DiamondGeezer | Published: February 22, 2010
Gratefully received from a friend of mine, this week’s first dose of insanity involves the Greater Manchester Police recording snowball fights as serious violent crime. As the article makes clear, ’serious violent crime’ is supposed to be incidents such as murder, rape and inflicting injury with a weapon. Clearly it would have to [...]
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Mother fined £50 because her toddler dropped a banana skin.

By Jackal | Published: February 18, 2010
North East Lincolnshire Council are in line for this weeks ‘name and shame’ award. The Telegraph reported a case where a mother has been fined £50 by a council warden when her toddler dropped a banana skin out of her pram. Mrs Allen by her own admission, had seen the banana skin drop to the floor [...]
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Driver fined for blowing his nose

By scrubber | Published: February 4, 2010
Apologies for the lateness of this one; it’s several days old, but I received an email from a reader in Australia pointing out this article, which although slightly factually incorrect, led me to find several reports on the net, the best of which was here, in the Daily Mail. This must surely be a candidate for [...]
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Deemed offensive: Job advert that asked for a reliable person!

By scrubber | Published: January 27, 2010
I can’t decide whether this is a candidate for the “you couldn’t make it up” department, or the “the bloody country’s gone mad” department. Just when this PC nonsense seems incapable of getting any worse, it does! Our thanks to the Mail and the Express for this one, from the Jobcentre Plus office in Thetford, Norfolk. The [...]
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Farmers, red diesel, snow clearance and HMRC…

By scrubber | Published: January 13, 2010
Today’s entry from the “I’m not making this up” department comes courtesy of a press release from the Press Association. It seems that “Farmers have been warned they could face fines if they grit snow-blocked roads using tractors powered on red diesel.” Worse, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has gone so far as to issue “guidance to [...]
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Bah Humbug! The new Highways Agency motto

By scrubber | Published: December 16, 2009
Thanks to the Telegraph for this one… It appears that elf’n’saftee has gone mad down in Cornwall, and worse, the Christmas Spirit is dead and buried. Local residents got together and put a small (the DT calls it “large” but it doesn’t look very large in the photo), decorated tree in the middle of an otherwise [...]
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Bob Ainsworth and the kidnapped yachtsmen; I smell a rat here…

By scrubber | Published: December 12, 2009
Today both the Daily Mail and the Telegraph are running a similar story about our Secretary of State for Defence, the illustrious Bob Ainsworth, with the latter paper drawing on the story in the Mail. I’ve read both, and they’re so similar it’s sensible, for the purposes of this blog, to treat them as one. I’ve [...]
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