Some media commentators wonder why we rarely win any sporting events. We still hark back to 1966 for our last (only) major football win and to 1977 for the last time we had anything to cheer about in tennis.
It could be something to do with the fact that we are raising a nation of wimps - children who are told that everything has value and that nothing is second class (especially not their education).
The Health & Safety Executive refuses to let anyone take even the slightest risk. Their mantra seems to be "What do you want to do? You can't."
And now binmen in Havant, Hampshire are are told that they cannot pick up black bags of Christmas rubbish in case they hurt themselves.
Local people, who usually put out household rubbish and recycling on alternate weeks, had wanted extra collections over Christmas.
The council agreed to let them put out a black bag alongside their wheelie bin. But the dustmen decided to ignore the bags and used the council's own rules as their rationale. The rules state that only rubbish in wheelie bins is to be collected while any other rubbish must be left.
Council leader David Gillett said the binmen are wrong. He added: "They've picked up bin bags for the last 100 years and it hasn't bothered them. Why are they suddenly worrying about it?"
In fact, Councillor Gillett is wrong. It wasn't that long ago that dustmen used to go into people's back gardens, hoist metal bins onto their backs and carry them to the dustcart. It is only in the wimpy times that we live in that councils decreed that bins must be plastic and then that householders must leave a bin bag or wheelie bin "on the edge of their property" without any thought for the housebound or feeble.
In addition, when the PC brigade decided that binmen should be renamed "refuse collectors" - we didn't realise that meant that sometimes they would just refuse to collect.
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