So to make up here are a few random jottings to end the year.
- Apparently almost 200 dustmen have been assaulted this year by householders furious at the "alternate weekly collection". A spokesman said, 'Emptying the bins from more than 20million homes is a huge undertaking and certain rules are necessary to enable the job to be done quickly and efficiently.' The rules seemed to work a few years back - the dustmen would come into your back garden, hoist the dustbin on their shoulders, carry it to the dustcart, empty it and return it and (hopefully) put the lid back on and close your garden gate. Why is it more complicated now than it was then?
- Senior policeman Cressida Dick has been awarded the Queen's Police Medal for distinguished service. She, you will remember, was in charge of the operation that resulted in a totally innocent Brazilian electrician being shot dead on a Tube train in south London in July 2005. She was promoted not long after and has subsequntly been promoted again. Could she not have waited until retirement before she was given the gong? It seems once again (for the third time) remarkably insensitive of the Metropolitan Police Force to publicise this incompetent woman.
- After the football manager who used the Human Rights Act to prevent the world being told he was sleeping with another man's wife, another uses the same act to prevent the world learning he visits Thai prostitutes. Granted, it may be none of our business who either of these men are but was this really what the Government had in mind when they introduced this piece of legislation?
- The man who was jailed for beating up a burglar who tied up and terrorised his family should be freed immediaely.
Happy New Year. I hope 2010 brings you all that you wish yourselves.
