Comments on: Record Breakers

By: Fee

Fee — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:58:03 +0000

If they were my kids I’d be too ashamed to show my face in public. When I was a kid it was a toss-up whether I was more afraid of the police or my parents.

By: Plodnomore

Plodnomore — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:41:13 +0000

Tony F has it partly correct. How many times have senior Government Ministers and staff lost vital information, either leaving it on a train or cab or leaving a laptop on display in a car and not had anything happen to them? I know a middle manager in the Civil Service was prosecuted recently but nothing happens to the political masters. Examples come from the top. Blair has shown how you can lie and get away with it as long as “you did it in good faith.” Prescott has shown how you can claim real socialist principles whilst having 5 different places to lay his head (one of them a flat rented from th Seamnas Union at a peppercorn rent which he then sub-let to his son! Mandleseon has shown how you can cheat and lie yet end up as a Lord. Mind you, the other lot aren’t any better (Archer is a good example). It is therefore no wonder why “It’s not my fault” meanders down the foodchain. I think it was Roosevelt who had a plaque on his desk saying “The buck stops here.” A few more of these in Government and we may see a difference, though not in my lifetime.

By: MarkUK

MarkUK — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:34:06 +0000

It almost makes you want to support eugenics!

There’s a proposal in the Sunday Times that “poor mothers” (i.e. unsuitable, not impoverished) should be forced to use contraception after one or two kids, until they’d proved themselves capable in bringing up the next generation.

What about “poor fathers”? How about two blue bricks…?

By: PC Plastic Fuzz

PC Plastic Fuzz — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:12:50 +0000

You just have to laugh, or you’ll cry.

By: Tony F

Tony F — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 10:22:32 +0000

“Mrs & Mrs Smith have said that they’ve not done anything wrong in the way they brought up their family & blame it all on their son’s involvement in drugs. These days there is no need for anyone to accept any blame for anything as placing the blame at anyone else’s door is now current standard practice in the UK.”

Who else is there to blame? I know that our fearless ‘leaders’ have cheerfully taken responsibility away from everyone. For heavens sake don’t make a decision for yourself ‘cos sure as eggs are eggs, you’ll be breaking some Nulabour law.