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Shiver Me Timbers, Long Rock, Penzance - Terry "Trader" Gray died yesterday - a legend in his own lifetime - a story not told.
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Michael Lyons (chair of the BBC 'trust') published a poll this week which purely by chance totally supported his previously stated position that we all love the licence fee and want all of it to go to producing shows about Celebs Prancing About In Sequins and don't want any of it to go towards public service broadcasting on other channels. Why does the debate always start with unquestioning acceptance of the licence fee? The charge for the BBC isn't a licence at all, it's a compulsory subscription, and no one should be compelled to pay it. Poor people and unemployed folk who can't afford it, Sky subscribers who voluntarily go elsewhere, students who also can't afford it and whom the BBC ridicules in its ads if they get caught - in short, all the folk who evidently escaped Lyons' poll, should be able to watch ITV without paying for the BBC. How can this fraudulent charge still be justified? And I bet ipm won't open this debate because the BBC cannot be questioned.
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My husband recently attended an award ceremony dinner for blood donors who had given 75 or more pints of blood. It was stated at the dinner that less than 5 per cent of the population actually give blood-it was very noticeable that most of the donors were at or approaching retirement age and one of the speakers said how vital the work was and that there was a real shortage of young people coming forward to give blood. Could ipm help to promote this cause and encourage more young people to come forward? I don't think that having a tattoo is a bar, is it? I certainly hope not as they are all the fashion these days.
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At the large NHS trust where I work, some sort of contract has been struck up with a courier company to deal with outgoing mail. We have been told that we should expect letters to patients to take 10 days to arrive. This results in patients not turning up to their appointments for which expensive drugs are pre-ordered.
I could a tale unfold about PFI - real irony here in that 16 of us representing NHS Trust, maintenance contractors, PFI company, equipment company, their building contractor squeezed into a tiny room to discuss progress with a building project where its essentially costing £333 000 to refit a single (admittedly huge) newly built room. PFI is costing a fortune, to say nothing of what colleagues including myself are paid these days. 1.4m NHS employees? Where is it all going to end? Has anyone out there tried to get physiotherapy recently? Or tried to get urgent attention for a psychiatric issue?
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This house believes:
I was listening to the radio this morning and a discussion about areas of public spending that could be cut over the coming decade. There were then the usual stories on international news and international relations. I then started linking the two and came to the conclusion that we do not need a foreign office.
The international interests of one increasingly insignificant nation (aside from its level of national debt) do not need representing in every single country. Our interests could easily be represented at a European level and billions slashed in public spending.
Furthermore, it is unclear to me from history and indeed more recent history that we have little to offer in international relations other than offering the lessons of our own mistakes.
Is it not time that we cut the colonialist pomposity and cuts billions in spending in one fell swoop?
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I read in yeasterday's paper that Peter Jefferson had been sacked by Radio 4 for saying the F word when he fluffed a trailer before the pips and two people complained, after 45 years service. If this is correct then all Radio 4 listeners should be complaining about this ridiculous decision. If you were one of the complainers you have life too easy and don't have enough to worry about
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Hi All
I have just been informed my nickname of DavidLemon1, which I have been using for months, has been reset because it breaks house rules. I would love to know why. It doesn't seem to break any of the rules specified:
- it doesn't loook like an email address
- it is my real name so I don't know who I could be impersonating, I don't even now any famous David Lemons- not even me!!
- I don't quite see how it is a swear word or could cause offense - in fact I suppose I could be offended by the BBC deciding my name is offensive:)
- it has no character breaks but there are plenty of other nicknames of similar lenght without breaks.
Anyone else had a similar experience?
Regards
DavidLemon1 - whoops hope that didn't cause offense
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We are told by those who would have us worry about it that the Lisbon Treaty is going to pass more of our sovreignty to Europe. If this is true, indeed if we have passed significant ammounts of our legislature etc. to Europe already, why do we need so many MPs? or parliament at all? Why don't we just become rural Europe and save ourselves a huge bill? What exactly can our MPs achieve for us?
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I am currently "between jobs" - I was laid off at the end of July, and when finances became desperate started claiming Job Seekers on 10th September. Last week (24th September) I was concerned because I had not heard whether my claim was successful. I phoned up and discovered that they were just dealing with claims made on 10th August.
Obviously, even though staff at the Job Centre are putting a brave face on, in the back room - as it were - they are bailing like crazy to stay afloat.
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A new sentencing guideline
When does life imprisonment really mean life. Murderers, rapists, paedophiles get sentences of 10, 20, 30 years but get out in half or less.
For their crimes, we (society) pay huge sums for their incarceration, training, teaching, for their eventual release into us (societly again).
Here is a suggestion, a new sentence, "Death in Prison". No chance of parole, no wasting our money on preparation for repatriation, just locked up. No social workers, no appeals, you did what you did, your sentence represents no hope, no planning, no training, no hearings, no tribunals, no appeals to the Home Secretary, just live your life in prison and die.
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SO, President Obama isnt going to withdraw from Afghanistan, Britain is going to send 500 more british troops and the rest of the E.U. Nato members are keeping a low profile so as not to upset their home front.NO FRENCH OR GERMAN TROOPS GETTING ANY OF THE ACTION OR COMING HOME IN BODY BAGS. and the Great british public are treated to support our Heros propaganda ect.
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My daughter is a trainee accountant, 19 years old. Her boyfriend also has a good job, they have a deposit in the bank, offers of mortgages, but NO houses to buy. We are on the Devon Cornwall border and there are NO affordable houses - using anyone's definition of affordable. If two young people in-work, cannot buy a house in a recession, how on earth are they supposed to start their life together? (Renting is not an option for an accountant, in case you wondered!)
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I tend to agree with normanthegeordie that prison sentencing needs an overhaul. People who commit the most appalling crimes are released back into society after a few years, and we all suffer more heart-ache as a result. This revolving-door situation is getting us nowhere.
In addition, there is the enormous costs of keeping these people banged up - and we're the ones who're paying. I feel that repatriation and capital punishment are two additional avenues that deserve to be explored in greater detail. We have got to do something to protect our society; we owe it to our children.
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Just returned from the US again. Then also looked at my Sky bill. £25 per month to see programmes with 20 minutes per hour of adverts (am negotiating its removal in return for an allowance with my teenagers).
Please keep the licence fee intact.
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The BBC licence fee is not the only compulsory contribution to TV companies. Many products I buy have some element in the cost for advertising either that product, the company making it or the store I buy it from. How do those who oppose the licence fee on the grounds that it is "compulsory" suggest we arrange for me to be exempt from this charge?
By the way, why does the spell checker on this site seem unable to spell licence but does not object to the incorrect license?
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Halifax / Bank of Scotland overdraft charges. £1 a day for an agreed overdraft. Its daylight robbery and the rest of the banks will join in if they can. Please investigate how much money the banks will make from changing their overdraft policy from charging interest on an agreed overdraft, to charging a flat daily rate. Thank you BBC.
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The ukulele player on 'PM' at 5:30pm on Friday 6th November was actually Al "Woodshed" at http://ukulelehunt.com/
Al is a bit a legend amongst the ukuele community - as soon as I heard it I knew it was him playing!
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Please set the record straight, BBC! I live right next to one of the sites proposed for a new nuclear power plant - KIRKSANTON - and I'm very disappointed that even the Beeb lumps it with all the others as 'on or near an existing site'. It's NOT!! It's a greenfield site (very literally!) on the Cumbrian coast, over 20 miles from Sellafield, (which is well out of sight), in a stunningly beautiful, wildlife rich area of the Western Lake District.
You will guess that I'm opposed, though totally committed to combating climate change, and I could say lots more, but just getting our location recognised for what it is would be a great start!
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RAF lose helicopter in USA
http://www.ivpressonline.com/articles/2009/11/10/local_news/news01.txt
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