Plane stupid to reward failure
that understanding. What happened was really very simple: the police had become politicised. The CPS and ministers were worried about the level of convictions for rape and mesmerised by past failure on child abuse.
Therefore, the police were expected to believe any old nonsense. What was unbelievable was deemed credible and what was blatantly false proclaimed true. In short there was an agenda instead of a simple and rigorous examination of evidence.
It must never happen again. I AM not one of those who complain about directors and CEOs being highly paid.
If a company is successful and making good profits then let them reap the rewards. But what excuse can there be for taking rewards from losses? For enhancing the problem?
How, oh how, can the Thomas Cook directors sleep easy in their beds? Do the images of thousands of workers, jobless and distraught, never turn into nightmares of guilt and contrition?
Apparently not.
WE have a parliament full of wimps. Apparently nobody should use words such as “surrender” or “betrayal” because it makes the poor dears feel threatened. Well, sorry folks, but the Theresa May withdrawal deal was a surrender and if it comes back in a watered-down form then that will also be a surrender.
What do you call ceding control of your affairs to a foreign power if not a surrender? What do you call promising to implement the result of a referendum and then not doing so if not betrayal? What do you call handing determination of our country’s future to the EU and deliberately undermining and handicapping the PM in his negotiations on behalf of Britain other than sheer treachery?
Dear heaven, if our ancestors had gone only half as far they would have found themselves in the Tower. I could observe what happened to them next but in this ludicrous age of snowflakery some fool of an MP would wail that was an incitement to violence.
AND for goodness’ sake let them stop bleating that women are particularly vulnerable to such threats. They are not. Airey Neave, Robert Bradford, Ian Gow and Anthony Berry were all men. Nigel Jones, a Liberal Democrat MP, was attacked in his constituency office and his agent killed. Jo Cox is the tragic exception. Death threats are part and parcel of an MP’s existence. I used to get them and put them in the waste basket.Why can’t today’s MPs do the same? Dammit, we have even had an MP moaning that the phrase “...when did you stop beating your wife?” is making light of domestic violence instead of a time-honoured example of a lose-lose question.
When I entered the House of Commons in 1987 there were only 41 women MPs, but, by gum, we were a different breed. Anyway, what about their poor constituents? Their surgeries are almost certainly full of people in desperate straits. Shouldn’t these whining fools be worrying about them instead of themselves? WHEN
I was last in Strasbourg, we debated and voted on a motion to respect the memories of victims of totalitarian regimes. An amendment was moved to remember specifically the millions of Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Incredibly that was opposed by, among others, six British Labour MEPs. Perhaps that is something else the anti-Semitism probe should examine.