Avon and Somerset Police strike again breaking the door down to a retired couple's house looking for drugs.
The first Ivor and Margaret knew about the raid was then they flew home from a holiday in Madeira to find their front door had been smashed in.
It had been bolted shut by a padlock and the couple found paperwork from the police detailing what had happened.
A spokesman for Avon and Somerset confirmed the raid had taken place and they had apologised but said the force could not comment further because the couple's complaint was being investigated.
The over excitable Avon & Somerset Police watch far too much 'Starsky & Hutch' and perhaps should have made a slightly more proportionate enquiry before kicking the door in.
Saturday, 6 December 2008
Friday, 5 December 2008
Taxpayers Alliance Bristol Meeting
For anybody interested -the first meeting will be at
Cafe Rouge
Cabot Circus
Bristol
BS1 3BD
This Saturday at midday
Cafe Rouge
Cabot Circus
Bristol
BS1 3BD
This Saturday at midday
Thursday, 4 December 2008
Tuesday, 2 December 2008
The cost of eco-madness
Swindon Borough Council are facing a budget shortfall of £3.2M
"The cost of being greener will contribute to the bill, with a hole of around £500,000 coming from the difficulty in selling on recyclable materials.
As revealed in the Adver last week the council has a paper mountain in excess of 1,700 tonnes housed at its Waterside depot.
There is also an increased landfill tax of £296,000 because the council failed to meet its target of recycling 50 per cent of waste."
The Far East market for recycled paper, plastics and so on has collapsed as the global economy falters. The Chinese just don't want our waste. So what to do with it? As you can read above, you can no longer just bury it (although there is a huge landfill capacity in this country) as the EU has decreed that this is ecologically evil. Councils up and down the country are stuck between a rock and a hard place. They can't move it elsewhere and will therefore get fined.
"Other costs include a £1m increase in utility bills."
And why have they gone up so much? Well that will be to do with having to cough up for subsidies on pointless wind farms, the renewables obligations, carbon trading madness and so on.
Ah well, it's all good for the planet apparently, just pain for the ordinary man and woman. Expect a council tax rise jolt wherever you live, coming to you soon in April.
Alternatively you could join the Libertarian Party and work towards a government that would ease the pain with sensible policies that will remove the state and the EU from our lives along with their futile and costly eco-madness schemes.
"The cost of being greener will contribute to the bill, with a hole of around £500,000 coming from the difficulty in selling on recyclable materials.
As revealed in the Adver last week the council has a paper mountain in excess of 1,700 tonnes housed at its Waterside depot.
There is also an increased landfill tax of £296,000 because the council failed to meet its target of recycling 50 per cent of waste."
The Far East market for recycled paper, plastics and so on has collapsed as the global economy falters. The Chinese just don't want our waste. So what to do with it? As you can read above, you can no longer just bury it (although there is a huge landfill capacity in this country) as the EU has decreed that this is ecologically evil. Councils up and down the country are stuck between a rock and a hard place. They can't move it elsewhere and will therefore get fined.
"Other costs include a £1m increase in utility bills."
And why have they gone up so much? Well that will be to do with having to cough up for subsidies on pointless wind farms, the renewables obligations, carbon trading madness and so on.
Ah well, it's all good for the planet apparently, just pain for the ordinary man and woman. Expect a council tax rise jolt wherever you live, coming to you soon in April.
Alternatively you could join the Libertarian Party and work towards a government that would ease the pain with sensible policies that will remove the state and the EU from our lives along with their futile and costly eco-madness schemes.
Monday, 1 December 2008
Cloudbusting
So convinced are our regional unelected masters that they can modify the weather, they have concocted a 'South West Climate Change Action Plan' and I quote:
"Aim of the Plan
The South West Climate Change Action Plan draws together issues from across the region to ensure that there is a shared vision on tackling climate change, access to a common evidence base and a jointly agreed set of priorities for taking the issues forward. The Action Plan sets out a clear programme of regionally agreed priority actions to address both mitigation and adaptation activity. The main areas of mitigation activity within the SWCCAP include tackling emissions from existing housing, business and public sector operations, transport, new build, energy generation, and land management. Adaptation activity covers: the region’s strategic response to climate change; awareness raising; land and marine management; and adapting to flood risk."
...and if you can understand a word of that you are a better man than I.
Sorry, not a chance of achieving anything apart from more tax burdens on businesses and individuals. It rather reminds me of the Kate Bush Cloudbusting video, except that the men in black coats are coming for the rest of us rather than the lovely Kate or Donald Sutherland.
I also note that the Met Office down in Exeter are wailing about a potential sell off as it might just damage their Climate Change agenda if they were owned by a private company that understands AGW for the fraudulent scam that it really is. Wouldn't it be a hoot if they were bought by one of the oil companies?
"Aim of the Plan
The South West Climate Change Action Plan draws together issues from across the region to ensure that there is a shared vision on tackling climate change, access to a common evidence base and a jointly agreed set of priorities for taking the issues forward. The Action Plan sets out a clear programme of regionally agreed priority actions to address both mitigation and adaptation activity. The main areas of mitigation activity within the SWCCAP include tackling emissions from existing housing, business and public sector operations, transport, new build, energy generation, and land management. Adaptation activity covers: the region’s strategic response to climate change; awareness raising; land and marine management; and adapting to flood risk."
...and if you can understand a word of that you are a better man than I.
Sorry, not a chance of achieving anything apart from more tax burdens on businesses and individuals. It rather reminds me of the Kate Bush Cloudbusting video, except that the men in black coats are coming for the rest of us rather than the lovely Kate or Donald Sutherland.
I also note that the Met Office down in Exeter are wailing about a potential sell off as it might just damage their Climate Change agenda if they were owned by a private company that understands AGW for the fraudulent scam that it really is. Wouldn't it be a hoot if they were bought by one of the oil companies?
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