This country is now suffering a pandemic known as the virus HSE.

The Health and Stupidity Executive!

Currently there is no known cure.

I would like to suggest a course of massive doses of ‘Common Sense Serum’. Perhaps then, and only then, we can save this country from so much unnecessary tragedy.

In days of old we used to cry out for there to be more measures put in place to protect us from the preventable. Safety guards on dangerous machinery; procedures to ensure important checks weren’t overlooked. But now it’s all gone a bit Pete Tong!

For instance, this most recent case is an example of how the work of the HSE is now defeating the very objective it was set up to achieve:

A grandfather was left dying while a paramedic spent 16 minutes carrying out a health and safety check on his flat.

Roy Adams, 61, was told to leave the entrance to his home open for emergency workers after he dialled 999 for medical help following a suspected heart attack.

But it is thought that the rapid response medic who was first at the scene feared the open door and another on the latch meant the flat was being burgled.

He waited outside and conducted a risk assessment while waiting for police support vehicles to arrive.

By the time he entered the property Mr Adams had collapsed to the floor, unable to breathe. He died on the way to hospital.

His daughter Catherine, a security worker, said she believed the delay might have cost her father his life.

In another recent case at the Camberwell Flats fire where six people lost their lives this is the report that came out:

Fire-fighters battling the Camberwell tower block inferno that killed six people were forced to pull out of the building because of health and safety rules, it has been claimed.

A Fire Brigade source said crews were on the 11th floor of the 14-storey tower and about to rescue a group of trapped residents when the order came to withdraw amid fears of an explosion.

When it was finally deemed safe to go back in, it was too late to save Helen Udoaka, 34, her three-week-old daughter, Michelle, and Dayana Francisquini, 26, her son Filipe, three, and daughter Thais, six, who were trapped in a bathroom.

The HSE, or the incompetence of people in charge of interpreting its directives, is becoming expert at turning tragedy into travesty.

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Check out the BBC website just how guilty your MP was when it came to fleecing the hard working tax payer.

It lists all the MPs by political party and when you click on the name you are taken to a page that gives you their photograph and highlights what they have claimed for.

For instance the Conservative MP David Davis his claim reads:

 The former shadow home secretary David Davis reportedly claimed for more than £10,000 of home renovations and furnishings, including a new £5,700 portico at his home in Yorkshire.

He then responds with:
Mr Davis told the Telegraph he had the new portico built to deal with “severe water damage” and it had been replaced on “a like for like basis”. Later he told the BBC: “I claimed more than £5,000 less then the maximum last year. That’s not the action of somebody trying to maximise their income on this or make money out of it or play the system or whatever you like – that’s why I would like to see a much more rigorous system.”

My question would be this; How is a portico essential to you carrying out your work as an MP? And has any worker, anywhere, ever had a business expenses claim for house renovations accepted? Come to think of it, would they have even contemplated trying to claim it in the first place?

Guilty!

So, check out your MP today.

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Here’s a link that will take you to a website where you can make a claim against your MP.

Surf along to the YouClaim website and using the drop down menu find your Member of Parliament. Guilty or Not Guilty? You decide.

The site lets you make a claim against your MP for such necessessities as; ‘need a holiday’, ‘don’t like my nose’ to ‘my shoes are a bit scuffed.’ You can leave a message and on a click of the button your claim is listed on the website.

It’s a bit of fun.

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Drug dealers are a cancer that need to be cut out of our society now. This is something that should have been done decades ago. We are always hearing our politicians mouthing platitudes and wringing their hands while they deliver their well worn clichés.

“We are pushing as many resources as our budgets will allow to bring these terrible people to justice.”

But the vicious cycle of: drug dealing-create addicts-create crime to pay for drugs-drug dealers get richer-etc.etc. just goes on and on.

And when the police, usually with one arm tied behind their backs, bring them to justice, justice is found to be sorely wanting. Just ask the families of those who have been sucked into the dark evil world of the drug dealer.

This should be our first priority, to create a justice system that is consistent and actually just.

The politicians of the last twenty years have been negligent in their responsibilities in many areas and the drug situation is one of the worst. Mainly because it is so easy to put right.

If you do a Google search for ‘typical jail sentences for convicted drug dealers’ you will quickly see why our streets are awash with scumbag drug dealers.

No Deterrent Exists

I came across a news story that initially raised my hopes that things were starting to improve. The headline read; “60 Years In Jail For Drug Dealers.”

Great, I thought at last, this is being dealt with as it should. My raised mood was short lived as I read on and discovered that the 60 years was the accumulative jail sentences for all of the 26 gang members.

Yes I know, sickening isn’t it. That equates to less than three years apiece for selling cocaine and heroin on our streets. When you take into account that the time spent in custody awaiting trial is deducted from this and then take off time for ‘good behaviour’ and it all becomes just a bit of an inconvenience. Part and parcel of the job of drug dealer really. It’s pathetic!

This drug bust was hailed as a ‘huge success’. I don’t dispute the dedication, hard work and risks taken by the officers involved. All that painstaking effort and then to be let down by a justice system that seems to miss the point of its role.

Probably the most disappointing thing for me was the quote from the CID sergeant who worked on the case:

“Today marks the culmination of over a year’s work to remove those people from our communities who continue to spread drugs and exploit addicts.”

He went on, “I am really pleased with today’s result, and I hope it sends a clear message not only to other offenders but to the local community that we will continue to work hard to reduce drug dealing and the massive detrimental effect it has on people.”

The trouble is it’s a mixed message. I don’t believe any drug dealer is going to worry about the outcome of this drugs bust.

Yes the police worked hard. This bust must have cost a few hundred thousand pounds of our tax money. And all for what? So that a group of career criminals can have a paid for holiday for about 18 months before starting back in business.

It’s depressing when a drug dealer is caught, charged and brought before the courts for the Judge, who I thought was there in the role of protector of the law abiding majority,to then dish out pathetically inadequate sentences or to let them off completely.

Here’s a link to just such a recent story: Judge Spares Drug Dealer Prison For A Friendly Chat. You couldn’t make it up!

How To Remove Drug Dealing From Our Streets

This drug bust and others like it would have been a ‘huge success’ had our justice system delivered the appropriate punishment. In this case punishment and not rehabilitation.

The majority of drug dealers are not addicts. They feed off of the addicts that they supply. They wallow in the misery they create. They are in general sociopaths. Maybe they were just born that way, or maybe they just don’t give a toss about anyone else.

They trade in death and destruction. They profit from the agonies of loving families. They are violent. They enjoy what they do. This is totally unacceptable behaviour and it needs to be punished accordingly.

If I had my way drug dealing would carry a minimum term of life in jail. No parole. Get done for drug dealing and you ain’t coming  back out.

And absolutely no reduction for so called good behaviour because the good behaviour nonsense just doesn’t wash with me.

This good behaviour they use to reduce a criminals time behind bars is the behaviour that is happening where it doesn’t count, in prison. I don’t give a damn how well they behave in a controlled and guarded environment.

They are there to serve time for the crime they carried out in free society. Had they not committed the crime they wouldn’t be in jail to have their behaviour judged. What nonsense.

Real Deterrents Work

Imagine if everyone convicted of drug dealing was taken off the streets and kept off. Once people began to see that this zero tolerance to drug dealing was the real deal I believe things would quickly change.

There will always be those self-obsessed people who believe they won’t be caught and when they are that will be one less  to worry about. But the message to everyone else will be that the risk is just too high.

Of course bringing in a system that deals correctly with these dangerous and ruthless people will mean we need to have a process that then helps those who are unfortunately addicted to the drugs the dealers supplied. But that’s another posting.

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Labour peer Lord Foulkes turned on a BBC presenter demanding to know how much she was paid during a live interview on MP expenses. He clashed with Carrie Gracie on the BBC News Channel after she asked if MPs who had abused their expenses should pay the money back. He accused the media of ignoring the good work MPs did and demanded to know how much she was paid.

Watch and judge for yourself just how out of touch these people, who we pay, are!

And I don’t think this will go away anytime soon.

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