It's wet, bad copper and sentencing

28 May

Jan is getting desperate for a day out and relying on the weather forecast last night, she had planned to go birding at Slimbridge Wetlands Trust site. We were up early to get a decent leave time, only to find that the BEEB had got it wrong yet again and now Slimbridge has rain all day. Jan is not a happy bunny right now.

A West Midlands police officer has been sent down for a two year custodial sentence for distributing kiddie porn photos of boys. To me, two years is not enough! As a copper he was in a place of trust, even more so than a lot of others. Yet again we see the sentencing of offenders not fitting the crime.

We have been watching the BBC 1 show called Call the Council and we keep hearing that such and such an offence carries XYZ penalties. Yet they very rarely do get applied. The chances of getting caught are so slim that many people totally ignore the law. The odd occasion when the do get caught they know that they won’t face the full penalty. There was one woman who had driven for 12 years without insurance and got away with it. So she was fined and had six points on her licence, but the fine was nowhere near what she had saved over the years in not being insured.

According to a report on telly this morning, the level of admitted racism in the UK has risen sharply. It’s tied in with the immigration problem we now face. Those admitting to being racist are of the manual workers with no employment qualifications. That seems obvious simply because it is lower skilled manual work that most of the immigrants go for.  

The subjects of the racism is no longer aimed at only the Asian and black folks from Africa and the West Indies. No, most of it is aimed at Chinese and Eastern European people.   I wonder how much it has cost and how long it’s taken to work that one out!

Today’s photo is off some of the flowers growing in the park …

And today’s funny …

As a teacher I often send home notes with children to inform the parents that their child’s behavior can use some improvement. I received the following letter from one student’s father, “Dear Mrs Green, Harry is sorry he didn’t do his homework last night, he will never do it again.”