Snouts in the Trough!

The snouts in the trough syndrome appears to have hit the UK to such an extent that the ordinary man/woman in the street is regarded as a failure if they cannot find a trough to stick their snout into. I challenge some of the political bloggers like Iain Dale and Guido Fawkes to start blogging in support of the average, hard working, family orientated, tax paying families who are not seeking a trough but still want a decent standard of living for their families.

In the society of today created by NoLab but perpetuated by the other political parties there is no reward for people who work hard,support their families but cannot find a trough to stick their snout into. If you cannot find that trough then I am afraid you are branded a failure and you are condemned to a life where you are dependent on the state.

This is particularly clear when you examine the prospects of the people scrabbling for jobs where they have to depend on agencies for a living! They are then pawns in the hands of unscrupulous agents who will exploit all of them for profit.

Nobody represents these people because frankly a lot of them do not vote. The reason that they do not vote is that they have never been educated to vote. They do not understand the power or significance of their vote. Education has been dumbed down, quite deliberately, where the kids of today, with a few exceptions, have been educated that any subject with a serious connotation is regarded as 'boring'!

We now have a society which does not realise that we are a democracy and that is quite a precious commodity. We have created a climate which admires people with their snout in the trough. It is a sad state of affairs where the people who have their snout in the trough of public finance are regarded as pillars of society. These people should be pilloried and exposed but that is not the end of the matter. The NoLab government have perpetuated every aspect of this snouts in the trough culture but I ask the pertinent question...will David Cameron end it? Of course he won't because he is part of the Political Class who all embrace the European Union and provide so many millions with the trough which they can all stick their
snouts into.

The Political Class

A few years ago I started to read a book written by Edwina Currie which I found in a holiday apartment. Let's face it when we are lying on a beach with minds in neutral we will read almost anything and I soon regretted my decision.

This stupid woman had written a book about a British government creating a political class which had elevated itself above the general public to such an extent that they were actually unaccountable. Now of course I did not finish the book because it seemed so lacking in realism. Surely nothing like that could happen in this country? Well I am afraid to say that we are now all a lot wiser and I also wish that I had finished the book!

There are now reports that this discredited and frankly embarrassing government are trying to ensure that any events which would discredit or embarrass them are to be held in courts which will ban all public intrusion. I tell you what they will never ever get the message! They lose election after election mainly because they have been absolutely rumbled by the public but Brown and his cohorts do not ("I am listening to the public") ever listen to the public!!

They never listen to the public because their agenda is so contrary to democratic principles and they/we all know it. Gordon Brown is a busted flush but unfortunately he can still do so much damage to the country before the coward eventually goes to an election. They all know that they will be wiped out when they eventually give us a vote (I bet he gets out before any election). That night I await for his humiliation with relish BUT what will that leave us with?

What will they try next? I will probably not live to see the antics of this bunch exposed but we all know what has happened. They are trying to create a political class which the public cannot penetrate.

Apparently forty four police officers will give evidence anonimously at the inquest of the death of Jean Claude Menezes, the Brazilian erroneously shot dead by misled police officers. The person in charge on the day was Cressida Dick who apparently has since been promoted thus exhonerting her of any blame on the day that this poor fellow was blasted to death by officers who believed he was a terrorist. Press reports suggest that she was in competent, giving incoherent commands over the radio but then is that her fault? If she is one of the political class of police officers who have been promoted purely on the grounds that they will slavishly follow NoLab doctrine then what do you expect?

This bunch of neurotic ideologists have killed education in this country. They have ruined law and order to the extent that murder is now routine on our streets. Our children cannot play on the streets for fear that some paedophile will abduct them without any fear of the consequences. There are no consequences for the evil. They are indulged, pampered, understood, cossetted and consequently they have no respect for the law.

Don't tell me that this is not deliberate! The powers that be could change this at a stroke but they refuse to protect the public. It is quite, quite, deliberate and someone is to blame!! Get real folks we are being let down by the political class and perhaps Edwina Currie had a point...but I will never know because I didn't finish her book!

Derby County

In my profile it states that I am a fan of Derby County and you will notice that I have been very quiet on that subject for many months after I realised that perhaps Paul Jewell, the manager, was not quite the man everyone thought he was. He talks a good game does Mr Jewell and he obviously has the backing of the Chief Executive, Mr Pearson, but something is wrong.

All summer Mr Jewell has been making headlines by signing almost anyone who wanted to come to the club. His stated object has been to change the philosophy of the club so that he could start to win games. That is the problem you see because Mr Jewell cannot win a game of football. Derby County are currently on their worst run in the club's history. They have lost so many matches in recent months that they are being renamed 'Donkey' Derby.

Yesterday out came the new players and according to all the reports nothing has changed. For long periods they were played off the park by newly promoted Doncaster Rovers despite the fact that Derby had signed their 'star' midfielder during the close season. The problem has always been the same since the arrival of Mr Jewell and that is the team cannot keep the ball. They cannot pass it accurately and therefore they continually lose possession. The strikers hardly threatened and I am not surprised because they are both at Derby because they could not hold down a first team place with rival championship teams. A strange way to build a promotion challenging team.

A third striker who was so good in a lower league last year that he cost Derby quite a lot of money. He has never played for us but according to reports he will now be loaned out to 'build his confidence'. I saw him play last year and he looked a really good striker who scored over twenty goals. What has happened to him? The fourth striker is an Argentinian who was signed from a Mexican club for a couple of million quid and apparently is not now good enough to threaten the first pair! What is going on?

Good players cost money. Players come on loan because they can be spared by their clubs. Promotion chasing sides are built brick by brick. Derby once had a youth policy which paid a lot of dividends but in the past couple of years only Lewin Nyatanga and Giles Barnes have emerged from the youth team and Giles is currently recovering from injury whilst Lewin has played more games on loan at Barnsley. Lewin is, by the way, a permanent Welsh international but cannot make the team which won once last year! Good clubs produce good young people who stay loyal to their club.

I may be jumping the gun on the back of one poor and disappointing performance and there could yet be vast improvement but all I see is a collection of misfits and a manager hoping for a miracle and yet not knowing how to produce it. Perhaps he should look at his training methods, his scouts and his own man management because none of the recent signings has improved since they came to the club. I just hope we can beat Lincoln City in the Carling Cup on Tuesday because if we don't then I think that the manure will hit the whirring mechanism attached to the ceiling!

UPDATE: Derby 3 Lincoln 1... but a damned close run thing! Well done Wayne Ellington!

The Home Office

I have long been convinced that the Home Office is a source of evil for the British people. I cannot remember any policy emanating from the HO which has met with the approval of the British people in the past twenty years.

This is the governmental department which was summed up in the immortal words of the then Home Secretary Dr John Reid as 'not fit for purpose'. Did anything change after his outburst? Well you guessed it, nothing has changed apart fron the Home Secretary and John Reid was replaced by yet another Home Secretary the delictable Ms Jacqui Smith!

It does not seem to matter who poses as the Home Secretary, remember Blunkett and Charles Clarke both described as 'big beasts' in the political world and yet both destroyed by this heinous department.

What I would like to know is who is pulling the strings of this department? After all the HO is responsible for controlling so many aspects of our lives. It controls immigration or doesn't control it, depending on which side of the fence you lie. If you love your country and want to control immigration then you have fat chance of support from our HO!

Crime is controlled by our HO and they will baffle you with ridiculous stats! Crime is down they argue and so the persistant criminals need no longer be jailed. We all know that violent crime is rampant which has been emphasised today when a plucky lady was thrown onto rail tracks purely for requesting thugs to stop smoking in a non-smoking area!

It is quite obvious that we need more prisons and that we need a controlled regime within the prisons and that control has to be administered by the prison officers and not the drug barons. The prisons should be a rotten place to habitat but they are in fact a luxury item where the inmates have a life which many of them could not even imagine on the outside. Some of them crave for their prison life because they cannot exist in such luxury conditions after they leave the prison!

It is obviously a quite deliberate attempt to destroy our society from within. They are even suggesting the most ridiculous premise that we do not jail persistent criminals. We have a situation whereby it is quite obvious that we need thousands of more prison places which reflect out lawless society but the HO refuses to budge. Better to forgive the thugs who commit crime than to jail them. Better to concentrate on rehabiliation than to punish those who rob, burgle, rape and destroy the average citizen. It is not acceptable and I will not accept it. What I want to know is what proposals David Cameron has to reverse this trend? Don't hold your breath folks because someone, somewhere will prevent him from reversing the trend. Why is that I ask and you should all ask the same question before voting for him.

Five Hundred Visitors!!

Very quickly I notice today that this BLOG has had 500 visitors! I cannot believe it and I thank you for your interest. Heh I am only doing this out of total frustration with the British political scene. I know that many of you do not agree with my views but you also agree with my right to express them.

As one gets older one has the experience to see the nonsense being perpetrated by the mystery people of today. Believe me someone has an agenda to bring this country down to the level that we will no longer have the respect of the rest of the world.

These people fund political parties with their vast wealth so they can fund mass immigration, political correctness, two wars for our army to fight and subservience to the European Union. Who would do such a thing?

Now that is for you to discover but I have just one candidate and his/her initials are RM.

Modern Nursing

I read this week that someone had recently died in hospital from infected bedsores! I cannot think of a worse indictment on the NHS than this horrendous example of poor nursing. There is just no excuse for this type of neglect and so many people have to take responsibility for the consequences but under NoLab we know that nothing will happen. In recent years there have been so many examples of poor hygiene and poor nursing practice that it is now becoming commonplace. Africa would not accept the standards in our NHS hospitals never mind the rest of Europe. It has come to the point where admittance to an NHS hospital seriously threatens your health.

Now I hold my hands up because I owe my life to the NHS. In 2001 I collapsed suddenly and subsequently had my colon and major bowel removed. Following the operation I had peritonitis which caused septicemia and so I was rather poorly and spent a week in intensive care. It never rains but it pours!

After that little lot I was in Leicester Glenfield hospital for about three months and had first hand experience of modern nursing. Now as most of us know hospital life can be really boring and I became an interested observer of life on my ward. I realised very quickly that to receive the best treatment I had to play the game. My surgeon was fantastic! He has always been fantastic and to this day I think of him as more of a friend than a surgeon. Mr Adam Scott is a modern gentleman who possesses a wonderful bedside manner and cares for his patients in the time honoured tradition of the NHS. How he does it I will never know but after him there was a problem.

The young doctors generally did not have the same dedication or attention to detail. Let me give you an example. I was due a home visit which is so precious that you cannot imagine. Every day the nurses had to record my 'functions' and at that time I was still emiting puss from my stomach wound (Sorry!. Some silly moo entered the amount of urine that I was passing in the puss column and the young doctor stopped my home visit on that pretext! He seemed amazed that I was so incensed!! If that amount of puss was coming out of my stomach then surely I was dead meat!! Not in his world he believed the entry and did not query it.

But back to the nurses who generally were more interested in their social life than the problems faced by the patients. Most nurses today routinely ignore the patient until they have to follow ward routine. They will come round with the pills or smile sweetly as they follow the surgeon around but for the rest of it one has to demand or learn how to extract attention. I was lucky because I am a bit bright and I soon learned the game but for those who cannot attract attention it must be horrendous.

On the evening that my appendix burst there were three nurses attending fifty men on male surgery. Twice I was ignored but on the third pass I leant from my bed and grabbed the wrist of the passing nurse because I knew that I was dying!! I don't know what happned next but I am alive today so I made an impression.

They are not all like that. Some of them do care what happens to their patients but I am afraid to say that they are few and far between. They are generally older and therefore more compassionate. In the nursing schools today nursing is not taught. Targets have to be met and that is the legacy of NoLab. Most recent patients will probably recognise that after surgery the nurses crowd around the reception desk with their mates and rarely enquire after the health of their patients. In one occasion after a day care operation a lady who was struggling to recover had to complain to the Staff Nurse that the staff were making so much noise that they were hindering her recovery. He apologised to the offending culprits before asking them to keep the noise down! The reduced volume lasted little more than five minutes!!

The nursing industry has to reintroduce discipline on the wards before we will ever combat disease and neglect. We must somehow reinvent nursing standards of the fifties but that means standing the world on its head. Will anyone have the guts to confront the problem? Once again I doubt it but then more old people will die and guess what? We will all get old one day.

The Public Perception of Horse Racing

A couple of days ago I commented on the Panarama programme exposing some bad elements in horse racing (including jockeys) and at the time I expressed my own dissatisfaction with the lack of explanations from trainers after some surprise results. I know that horses are not machines and that surprises do occur where even the trainer is amazed but generally these horsey people know exactly what they are doing otherwise they would soon be out of business.

As I said in my original comment I have studied form for thirty years. I can understand that a trainer will try to disguise the ability of his/her horse so that the handicapper will allot the horse a winning mark. I just think that there are limits to the methods of disguise so that when is horse is not running to its merits then the punters are not being given a fair deal. Take today at Glorious Goodwood and the six furlong cavalry charge called the Stewards Cup. Most small punters love this gamble and I suspect that millions are staked on this one race alone. It is the type of race where a case can be made for most of them on their best form but of course in order to stand a chance the horse should have shown some recent glimmer of ability.

The race was won by a horse called Conquest at 40-1! Yes that's right 40-1!! The reason that it was that price is clear because it has run seven times since winning a race on the AllWeather track at Lingfield in March and on every occasion has shown very little. His record reads like this:-

18 Apr Newbury 5f Good/Soft beaten 10 lengths and finished 8th from nine runners.
04 May Newmarket 5f Good/Firm Group 3 race finished last of ten beaten 10 lengths.
15 May York 5f Good/Firm finished 7/11 but not disgraced.
31 May Goodwood 6f Soft 5/8 and beaten 3 lengths. 'Settled in last and little impression'.
21 Jun Ascot 6f Good/Firm 13/27 beaten 5 lengths although led far side group up until 4 furlongs (Hint of ability?).
28 Jun Windsor 6f Good/Firm beaten 6 lengths 'towards the rear never on terms'
11 July CHEPSTOW 6F Soft 11/12 beaten over 20 lengths!!!
02 Aug Goodwood WINS THE STEWARDS CUP!!

Now I don't care how you cut the cake if a horse is smashed at a Grade 4 track like Chepstow then it is never entitled to win the Stewards Cup at Goodwood!

This is the problem with British racing. There are too many results which are never explained. I would have expected that the trainer William Haggas should have been dragged in front of the stewards who should have demanded an explanation for the poor running in his previous seven races.

The trainer was not disguising the ability of his horse because as a 2 year old it won the Gimcrack Stakes at York (on soft going) and that race was a Group Two event. He actually ensured that this horse would get into this valuable handicap on a decent mark by a series of poor performances. In effect it was 'schooling in public' which is against the rules. In my opinion this should be investigated but of course it won't because the trainer and the owners are all part of the horse racing establishment.

William Haggas always comes across as a decent chap and he is obviously a serious trainer BUT in this instance the run up to this highly prestigious victory has to be questioned but I tell you what... it won't be and that is the problem.

HAT TIP - Tanya Stevenson the 'Femail' on Channel Four Racing gave Conquest as an Each Way option!! It is not the first time that she has done this either. She is either a genius, a sceptic or she had some very valuable information (which we all ignored)!