Shoesmith's blood money

They just don't get it.

The hatchet-faced harridan Sharon Shoesmith who has unbelievably won her case for unfair dismissal sqawks, "I don't do blame" when asked if she feels any responsibility for the death of 17-month-old toddler Peter Connelly.

She claims that her health has suffered because of her ordeal and that she had even contemplated suicide although she didn't look at death's door in the pictures taken on Friday.

Shoesmith claims that she took the case to court for "justice" not for money. So by this, can we take it that she will not be taking one penny of any offered compensation that she so richly does not deserve?

Prisoners have no right to vote

It has been a long time since my last post for which I apologise.

Should prisoners have a right to vote? No. Totally and unequivocally no. When someone goes to prison, they lose the right to vote and this is as how it should be.

A friend of mine disagreed. He said that anything that makes prisoners feel less disenfranchised is a good thing.

Aside from most prisoners not knowing what "disenfranchised" means, thanks to the appalling comprehensive school system, does my well-meaning but, I believe, naive friend really believe that most prisoners could care less whether they can vote or not?

Does he really believe that Chummy lays on his bunk in his cell on a Friday and Saturday night when his friends are out burgling or chatting up girls in pubs and bemoans the fact that he cannot vote?