My loathing for these communist shits knows no limits.
Aslef, the train drivers’ union, is holding a ballot for strike action, which is expected to win support for stoppages to start days before Christmas.
Thanks a fucking bunch, say the hundreds of thousands of affected people who are productive members of the economy.
A fat communist shithead, yesterday.
AJ
Pic updated due to my ineptitude. Cheers QM!
This is more wrong than… well pretty much everything.
Draconian police powers designed to deprive crime barons of luxury lifestyles are being extended to councils, quangos and agencies to use against the public, The Times has learnt.
The right to search homes, seize cash, freeze bank accounts and confiscate property will be given to town hall officials and civilian investigators employed by organisations as diverse as Royal Mail, the Rural Payments Agency and Transport for London.
The measure, being pushed through by Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, comes into force next week and will deploy some of the most powerful tools available to detectives against fare dodgers, families in arrears with council tax and other minor offenders.
You see that? Used a statutory instrument to hand over unfeckingbelievable powers to local authorities and quangos. Democracy? Fuck that.
Even the fucking coppers are aghast.
The radical extension of the Proceeds of Crime Act, through a Statutory Instrument which is not debated by parliament, has been condemned by the chairman of the Police Federation. Paul McKeever said that he was shocked to learn that the decision to hand over “intrusive powers” to people who were not police was made without consultation or debate.
So are the shysters.
His concerns are shared by leading legal figures, who believe that there is a risk of local authorities abusing the powers to search people’s homes, seize their money, freeze their accounts and confiscate their property. They also see parallels with the spread of counter-terrorist surveillance powers to monitor refuse collections and school catchment areas.
Yes – we have ample evidence that the council will go to fucking town with any powers given to them. Tis the nature of the beast. A who watches the watchers? Another Quango.
An “explanatory memorandum” says that a swath of financial investigators attached to the newly empowered bodies will be accredited, trained and monitored by another quango, the National Policing Improvement Agency. The memo adds that asset seizure will result in financial rewards: “Investigation bodies will receive a share of money recovered as additional funding to incentivise further work in recovering the proceeds of crime.”
Councils and other bodies had access to asset recovery powers before but only with with the authorisation and involvement of the police. Now they will be able to act independently of any police force or law enforcement agency.
And existing powers of confiscation under the Proceeds of Crime act have not been without problems. Ask anyone who has a safe-deposit box.
The extension of such draconian powers to civilian investigators coincides with mounting legal concern about the operation of the law of confiscation. But the Home Office maintained last night that the measures would “boost the fight against crime” and “free up valuable police time”.
Lawyers who specialise in confiscation law have been expressing concern about the extension of the powers for some time. One judge said: “It looks like this has been sneaked through.”
Andrew Bodnar, co-editor of a book on asset recovery law, said that the Proceeds of Crime Act had been carefully crafted and designed but its implementation often left much to be desired. “The theory behind the law is right. But if these powers are to be used to seize the assets of — to take an extreme example — fare dodgers or council tax defaulters, it is very difficult to see how those theoretical aims are being met.
“The extension of these powers should be monitored very closely. The spectre of counter-terrorism powers being used to monitor people’s bin- filling habits, or what school they’re trying to send their children to, should be cautionary.”
Indeed they fucking should.
Talk about driving a coach and horses through democracy and justice. I’ll say it again.
Fuck this bullshit country.
AJ
Last week, apropos of the angry internet lynch mob whipped up on twatter with the help of Fry and Brown, I wrote this:
And everyone’s aghast at this one column. Why?
An angry mob, whipped up on Twitter with help from Stephen Fry and Derren Brown intimidate the Mail and their advertisers into backing the fuck away from the Moir column.
That’s not justice. It’s just an angry mob. Ocholocracy. I presume this is just the brimming over of the hubris accrued in the Twattersphere from the Carter Ruck ruck. I hope it doesn’t continue to snowball.
As if there aren’t more important battles to fight than what some silly woman has written about a dead celeb.
The success and power of Twitter could easily be its downfall as the media and corporates abandon it to the savages.
Well frottage me frontwards with a fine French tapestry if that there twatter ain’t been and gawn and done it again.
Courtesy of Steve Shark:
These days I’m always a little worried by what I’ll find in a list of Twitter ‘Trending Topics’.
All too often it signals that a bandwagon’s just rolled by and dozens of fuckwits have jumped on it.
One of today’s offerings is ‘#aagill’.
A A Gill – author and restaurant critic – has just confessed to shooting a balloon bassoon baboon.
Smell that?
Yes, it’s the heady reek of moral outrage.
And Constantly Furious:
AA Gill, the journalist and restaurant critic, wrote a typically amusing piece for the Sunday Times this weekend, which included a description of how he’d – while in Africa – shot a wild baboon.
Naturally, a huge contingent of weeping bunny huggers have railed against the horror of this act, and yet another fucking vast Twitter witch-hunt has begun. This time the tag is not #janmoir – Twitter ‘got’ her – but #aagill. Yeah, Gill, you’re next.
Fucking mongonet.
AJ
UTA:
I’ve a feeling I’ll be needing this again in the future.
.. or “denormalising pets”
I’m obliged to SteveShark for pointing out this piece in the New Scientist (Ha!).
SHOULD owning a great dane make you as much of an eco-outcast as an SUV driver? Yes it should, say Robert and Brenda Vale, two architects who specialise in sustainable living at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. In their new book, Time to Eat the Dog: The real guide to sustainable living, they compare the ecological footprints of a menagerie of popular pets with those of various other lifestyle choices – and the critters do not fare well.
:sigh: orly?
As well as guzzling resources, cats and dogs devastate wildlife populations, spread disease and add to pollution. It is time to take eco-stock of our pets.
Nature is red in tooth and claw, not green, fuckwits. Now to compare apples to quasars.
An SUV – the Vales used a 4.6-litre Toyota Land Cruiser in their comparison – driven a modest 10,000 kilometres a year, uses 55.1 gigajoules, which includes the energy required both to fuel and to build it. One hectare of land can produce approximately 135 gigajoules of energy per year, so the Land Cruiser’s eco-footprint is about 0.41 hectares – less than half that of a medium-sized dog.
But why stop there, with this valid, insightful and oh.. completely fucking barmy analysis.
Doing similar calculations for a variety of pets and their foods, the Vales found that cats have an eco-footprint of about 0.15 hectares (slightly less than a Volkswagen Golf), hamsters come in at 0.014 hectares apiece (buy two, and you might as well have bought a plasma TV) and canaries half that. Even a goldfish requires 0.00034 hectares (3.4 square metres) of land to sustain it, giving it an ecological fin-print equal to two cellphones.
But what kind of muongs are going to take this shit seriously?
Ah…
This kind of analysis appeals to David Mackay, a physicist at the University of Cambridge and the UK government’s new energy adviser.
Fuck it. Calculate the carbon footprint of traffic wardens I feed to my pteradon, motherfucker.
He believes we should put as much thought into choosing a pet as we do into buying a car.
Actually, I always have done. I don’t care what colour my car is. But do you think I want a blue, green or silver cat? (actually a silver cat would be kinda cool).
"If a lifestyle choice uses more than 1 per cent of your energy footprint, then it is worthwhile reflecting on that choice and seeing what you can do about it," he says.
Okay then. Here’s what I can do. I can look at my bank account and decide “Yup, I pay for what I use. I can afford to use more if I fucking want to, you self-righteous cunts.”
"Pets definitely deserve attention: by my estimates, the energy footprint of a cat is about 2 per cent of the average British person’s energy footprint – and it’s bigger for most dogs."
So let me get this right. You’ve opened the door for sneery cunts to judge me for having cats. Well, fuck you very very much, David Mackay.
Back to the tooth and claw thing though.
Then there are the other environmental impacts of pets. Every year, for example, the UK’s 7.7 million cats kill over 188 million wild animals (Mammal Review, vol 33, p 174). That works out at about 25 birds, mammals and frogs per cat. Similar figures have emerged from surveys in the US and Australia.
Oh noes!! Perhaps we should regulate wildlife. You know, all squirrels have to carry an ID card. Cats will have a ration card for mice. Dogs will only be permitted to chase hybrid cars.
There is also a knock-on effect because cats feasting on wildlife can leave wild predators such as hawks and weasels short of food.
I think not. The local raptors and corvids love to mop up the remains of what my cats kill, be it rabbits, mice, rats, or other birds. I also put all waste meat out in the garden for them. I also spend circa £25 PCM on peanuts, for everything from squirrels, to deer, to peacocks, finches and woodpeckers.
Back to talking shit:
Cat excrement is particularly toxic. In 2002, it emerged that sea otters along the Californian coast are dying from a brain disease caused by Toxoplasma gondii. The parasite, which is found in cat faeces, ends up in rivers and estuaries thanks to cat owners who flush their cat litter down the toilet or allow their cats to defecate outside. Dolphins and whales are also affected (newscientist.com/article/dn14037).
So what’s the answer? (As if I give a tin shit)
So what is an eco-friendly animal lover to do? If you already have a pet, then changing its diet can help. Meat is the key, since its production is so energy-intensive.
Uh-oh.. here we go.
As well as quantity, think about quality. "If pussy is scoffing ‘Fancy Feast’ – or some other food made from choice cuts of meat – then the relative impact is likely to be high," says Robert Vale. "If, on the other hand, the cat is fed on fish heads and other leftovers from the fishmonger, the impact will be lower."
Uh.. right. Fish-heads.
Cat owners could consider keeping Tiddles indoors. "Cats are nocturnal, so the single most important thing people can do to reduce predation is to keep cats in at night," says Michael Woods of the Mammal Society in Southampton, UK.
See, here’s the thing. That’s deliberately and obviously cruel and unnatural. So it contravenes the legal obligation to care properly for one’s pet. You cunts.
And if you are thinking of acquiring a pet? "Shared pets are the best – the theatre cat or the temple dogs," says Robert Vale. But if you must own your own,
Exfuckingscuse me. If I “must own my own”? Hang on a motherfucking moment, you swallowers of goat semen. How fucking dare you.
Think about getting an animal that serves a dual purpose. He recommends hens, which partly compensate for their eco-footprint by providing eggs.
Yeah, because there’s nothing more comforting for an elderly person living on their own than a chicken curled up at the bottom of the bed.
And if you really want to gouge your own eyes out, read their editorial. Cute, fluffy and horribly greedy
Cunts.
AJ
UPDATE: In this reductio ad absurdum world, it should come as no surprise that Dunkeegin’s earlier spoof is an alarmingly accurate parallel.
Not that I have sympathy for plod, but they’re above lefties in the order of preference, even if they’re below Ebola.
AJ
In the Times, I see that Ken Clarke is stirring up a hornets’ nest.
Ken Clarke today gave the clearest indication yet that a Conservative Government would privatise the whole of Royal Mail in a move to tackle Britain’s postal services.
In a radio interview this morning, the shadow Business Secretary said that Royal Mail was becoming "a total disaster" and that a Conservative government would privatise the entire group.
Sounds good right? One of the things I asked for in my post during the conference season.
There’s always a ‘but’ though, isn’t there.
He said: "We propose to bring in private capital, assuming it is not in too disastrous a state by next May.”
This immediately screams two things to me.
Firstly that this caveat is a ‘get-out-of-promises-free card’ in the mould of the Lisbon referendum promise.
Secondly, this quite plainly instructs the CWU that the way to prevent Royal Mail from being privatised by the eeeeevil Tories is to continue their wrecking campaign and drive all commercial value out of the organisation.
In which case, in my view inject £100 million of state capital and put the fucker on eBay.
AJ
UPDATE: Do watch the video clip in the Times piece. Behold the hags complaining that their work is boring and their managers are dictators.
My parents tolerated me stamping my feet and shouting ‘IT’S NOT FAIR!!!’ until I was like 3 years old. I’ve always thought that a reasonable threshold, unlike these imbeciles.
“It’s your service, it’s my job”
Well either fucking do it, or piss off so someone else can, you overwhelming-sense-of-entitlement-having-motherfuckers.
AJ
… on yesterday’s news.. Dundee Council have taken the rest of their kids.
In the comments on the previous post, Angry Exile alluded to a post he’d written on the same sort of theme. Well worth a read.
AJ
So swampy and his chums are still at it.
In my not-so-humble opinion, trying to shut down a power station is bordering on evil. I can imagine that anyone with friends or family in a hospital local to that station, would be of the attitude that any protestors there deserve whatever beating they get. Fucking with people’s power supply is stupid, potentially dangerous, and probably the best way to alienate the rest of the population in terms of persuasion.
In point of fact, don’t hospitals have UPS & generators for critical equipment? If not they’d better start thinking about it because rolling power cuts will be the norm in 5-6 years time thanks to a combination of the EU and the greenies. Anyway…
Given that their stated mission was to break in and "stop power production" I have very little sympathy with any protestors taking part who may have been hurt, and frankly they don’t even have the excuse that it was a legitimate protest – they went in order to commit a criminal act of vandalism.
Do read on…
AJ
Looks like the strikes I complained about are set to escalate.
Royal Mail was on last night reported to have lost a £25 million contract with Amazon, its second largest customer, as a national strike looms over the crucial Christmas period.
The struggling company, which has been buffeted by a series of wildcat strikes since July, could suffer more cancellations if its service continues to be disrupted.
With a national strike announcement expected from the Communication Workers Union today, customers are increasingly worried about the reliability of Royal Mail.
In the past few months, a series of local strikes has led to backlogs of undelivered mail.
Well.. it’ll still have to be sold. For scrap. Cunts.
AJ
UPDATE: The Daily Mash have a view, as ever.
We’ll all know who to go looking for. This dog-on-a-string cunt:
Environmental activists claimed a major victory last night when plans for Britain’s first new coal-fired power station for 30 years were shelved after a sustained campaign.
The announcement by E.ON that it would delay a decision on Kingsnorth for three years is a serious setback for the Government’s principal environmental policy of supporting the capture and storage of carbon emissions from coal plants. The delay also heightens the risk of power cuts after 2015, when EU rules will force Britain to close nine of its largest and most polluting power stations.
E.ON’s decision was greeted as a victory by Greenpeace and will encourage activists to redouble their efforts to block other controversial schemes, including the planned third runway at Heathrow.
Fuck off swampy, you cunt. Where do you think the electricity is going to come from? Solar? Wind? Not a friggin’ chance.
AJ
I only discovered this chap, hence his sorry story, because he started to follow me on Twatter.
I give you Brian Howes (follow Brian on Twatter…)
Couple faces extradition over chemical sales
US jail threat to Scots family
By Craig Robertson
A SCOTS mum facing extradition to the US still doesn’t know when her fate will be decided — despite being due to give birth in just 10 days.
Mum-of-four Kerry Howes, who has been diagnosed with severe depression and post traumatic stress disorder, appeared at the High Court in Edinburgh on Friday but a hearing date was not set.
It means the 31-year-old faces a home birth without knowing if she will soon be taken 5000 miles away and thrown into jail.
Up to 98 years
Kerry and husband Brian (45) from Bo’ness face up to 98 years in an Arizona jail if found guilty of exporting chemicals US authorities claim were used to make the drug crystal meth.
The couple ran a legal chemical business — Lab Chemicals International — until targeted by undercover agents posing as buyers after a tip-off by one American citizen.
They accused Brian and Kerry of selling iodine and red phosphorus in the knowledge they would be used to manufacture the highly addictive drug. The couple maintain they were simply selling chemicals to be used in amateur pyrotechnics.
Red phosphorous is perfectly legal in the UK but strictly regulated in the US.
“We’ve done nothing wrong,” Brian told The Sunday Post. “We sold chemicals online to be used in fireworks, some as medication for animals and for sheep dip. We sold them everywhere except where they were embargoed.
Registered
“We were registered with the Special Branch and the Home Office. Central Scotland Police visited us regularly and we would ask if there was anything on the site we shouldn’t be selling and they always said no. Also we only dealt in credit card sales so all transactions were traceable.
“They even asked us to report any Muslim names among the people buying from us and we agreed to do that. Then the next thing we know we face extradition to the US without any evidence against us whatsoever.”
Brian and Kerry spent 214 days in separate prisons without charge last year, he in Saughton and she in Cornton Vale.
The couple were eventually released on bail but only after Brian went on a 30-day hunger strike to prevent the children being put into care.
That episode has left him with minor brain damage. Kerry has been left depressed at the prospect of losing her children — Denni (11), Bethaney (10), Ellie (6) and Leela (3).
One-sided treaty
The couple are victims of the one-sided post-September 11 extradition treaty which allows UK citizens to be forced to the US to stand trial. It allows Britons to be extradited without prima facie evidence of criminality.
“We’re being extradited on false information and none of it can be challenged,” said Brian.
The couple’s cases are now being considered separately and Kerry returned to the High Court in Edinburgh on Friday. She met with a new advocate and new medical reports were called for.
“No date was set, not even for a preliminary hearing,” explained Brian. “The judges said they were unhappy that our cases are being dealt with separately.
Refused
“My case is scheduled for May 26 to 29 and Kerry’s will not be set until after that. If I win, she wins automatically, that has been made clear. If I lose then she will go into court after that.”
The couple have been refused application to have their bail conditions changed to allow both of them to attend hospital for the birth of the baby.
Brian’s curfew insists he is at home from 8 pm to 8 am and both must sign on at their local police station three times a day. As a result they feel they have no option but to go for a home birth.
The extradition was formally approved by Scottish Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill. A Justice spokesman said they could not comment subject to the appeal to the High Court.
I’m just fucking dumbstruck.
For more coverage, get over to Brian’s blog – he, his wife and their children deserve the support of every UK citizen.
AJ
Via Obo…
Nothing we didn’t know already, but a decent read nonetheless…
At a time of diminishing employment opportunities, there’s a sector of the British economy that continues to expand. For the right type of applicant, it often offers above-average remuneration with attractive perks, notably an assumption of moral superiority.
You won’t find it listed in the "sits vac" columns, as such. That’s because this booming business embraces many organisations, across a range of activities: charities, social work, local and national politics, even journalism.
It is the Guilt Industry. No, not the gilt industry (though that too is flourishing, thanks to the Government’s borrowing binge). The Guilt Industry is completely different; it provides a living for those with an eagerness to demonise fellow citizens who spurn "progressive" values.
The Guilt Industry’s target market is largely, but not exclusively, Britain’s middle classes, those to whom Benedict Brogan referred to in his column yesterday as "pilloried, taxed, stripped of their privileges, bound by red tape and lined up for fiscal execution".
If you have a private-sector job, pay your bills, service your mortgage, invest in your property, commit no crime, save for old age (and that of your parents) and seek the best education for your children, then you have probably experienced an onslaught from the Guilt Industry’s sales force.
AJ
Fucking CWU union cunts….
Contact Us
To contact headquarters, the details are as follows:
Address: CWU, 150 The Broadway, Wimbledon, London, SW19 1RX
Tel: 0208 9717 200
Fax: 020 8971 7300
Typetalk: 1800102089717200
Email: info@cwu.orgMap – please click here to see a map of our offices
Fuck this bullshit.
AJ
The President will be selected by leaders of the EU’s 27 nations, rather than face direct election by voters.
Not only a government of all the unelected twats, now we’re to have an unelected President. Of Europe. Blair.
Words just fucking fail me. There isn’t a sufficiently awful fate I can wish upon this man. Although maybe a curse upon him that could only be lifted by bumfucking Harriet Harman.
The really fucking annoying thing is that this has been announced just before the Paddies go to vote at their referendum. Vote yes, get Blair. You love Blair. Cat’lic boy. Good Friday Agreement. Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness in government.
Fucking Eurocunts.
AJ
Via Ambush Predator, this is indicative that you are quite wrong…
Owners will be forced to install the microchip containing a barcode that can store their pet’s name, breed, age and health along with their own address and phone number.
The barcode’s details would then be stored on a national database which local councils could access in a bid to easily identify an owner’s pet.
…
The new scheme, supported by the Tories and Labour,
…
The scheme, which is already being successfully piloted by the Conservative-run Wandsworth Council, would be phased in gradually to provide enough time for owners to comply with the changes.
So let’s see where this will go:
1) Council wallahs with scanners will be able to immediately identify a dog-owner, by scanning their dog. I imagine park wardens being kitted out with hand-held scanners.
2) Immediately, there is the opportunity to issue automatic fixed penalty notices for e.g. alleged fouling.
3) Your dog escapes and is retrieved by the dog warden. Upon scanning the dog, you are immediately sent an £80 charge for dog-handling. To retrieve the dog will cost a further £180 and daily storage charges of £48 will be levied.
4) Unbeknown to the council, your dog was stolen 6 months ago, because the police aren’t yet able to update the dogabase.
5) Or perhaps your dog died last year, whereupon a bent veterinary nurse put your dogs chip into another dog.
Genius.
FWIW, my cats have these chips, but it is voluntary and the details are held by a private firm, not the state.
AJ
This is decidedly smelly…
Several companies, which declined to be named, have expressed concerns about RBS’s aggressive tactics in return for much-needed credit.
One chief executive of a FTSE 250 company said: "They have us over a barrel. What can we do right now? Nothing. They are in everyone’s facility. No one will be able to escape.
And here comes the rub…
But wait two years, when the lending market recovers, and we will never do business with RBS again."
This is solidifying my view that RBS shares will never recover to their pre-crash levels. This pains me.
So what is it they’re doing, exactly?
RBS, now 70pc-owned by the state, has been asking corporate clients to sign "side letters" alongside bridging loans or refinancings to formalise their mandate on future equity or bond issues as well as M&A advisory work. RBS has been on almost every deal this year, bagging £46.8m in fees from equity placings alone, according to Thomson Reuters.
The strategy is being driven from the top, as Stephen Hester, chief executive, is keen to repay the taxpayers’ £20bn as quickly as possible by chasing profits aggressively. The bank is now using its vast loan book to cash in on the equity and advisory capabilities acquired with its ill-fated purchase of ABN Amro by tying customers into pledging higher margin investment banking work.
The practice is known as "tying" and is illegal in the US. However, it is allowed in the UK and Europe. Before the financial crisis, though, clients were able to shop around. Most big lenders have since reined in credit, leaving "survivor banks" in a strong negotiating position.
Some company directors feel RBS is abusing its role, with at least two considering a formal complaint. One insider said RBS has been asking for a 10pc arrangement fee for re-financing debt: "Ten per cent is an egregious amount. They are a state-backed bank that we own. They should be helping corporate Britain, not crippling it."
I’ve lost count of the number of levels of wrong here.
AJ
Or at least that’s what I read into the following from The Times, hiding under a headline about Broon’s health denials:
Fury as Gordon Brown forced to deny prescription painkillers rumour
Deny all you like mate… I know pharmaceuticals both prescribed and proscribed. During that 5 Live interview, as I pointed out at the time, he sounded like he was heavily medicated.
Whatever. This is a smokescreen. Or if you’re in Yorkshire, a smirkscreen. Pop along to page 2 of the above article, where you’ll find the following, with reference to new banking regulations:
He then added he would be introducing "the toughest action of any country in the world".
Translation: We will have the most onerous regulation, which will render us unable to compete with New York and, more importantly, Frankfurt. Thus I propose that Broon is doing this so that Merkel and Sarkozy will back him to be the head of some new EU economic regulatory framework (if you remember this from June, and this from February), and Blair to be El Prez (5/2 favourite with Ladbrokes). Note in the latter case, that the French haven’t got a man in the running, though my money (hope vs experience) is on Luxemburgist Jean-Claude Junker.
Moving on…
He suggested that a fiscal responsibility Bill would be introduced in the Queen’s Speech, which would legally commit current and future ministers to bring down debt.
In other words, he’s going to do what is not done in a parliamentary democracy, which is to tie the hands of the next government.
This morning he suggested this legislation would "ban the new bonuses".
He added: "It will also say that where there is a bad behaviour the FSA [Financial Services Authority] will have the right to intervene and where a company doesn’t [behave] there will be penalties imposed."
So, an unaccountable board of appointed cronies will decide the standards of behaviour and reward structures for private companies (by which I mean any company set up on a profit making basis and, in the case of a PLC, legally bound to act in the best interests of its shareholders).
Bank shares may never recover their pre-crash value, and that’s bad news for those of us holding pre-crash RBS stocks.
In terms of the brain-drain effect, of those who are high flyers, artificially tethered by our smothering state, all the best talent will flee to Wall Street & Frankfurt, if not the Far East or South Africa, where no such ludicrous interventions are prescribed (though watch this fuzzy space, re. Wall Street.)
Scotch cunt. I hope he catches ebola.
AJ
In a developing theme,
http://dickpuddlecote.blogspot.com/search?q=nspcc
http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2009/09/nspcc-in-spin-about-isa.html
http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2009/1/29/the-nspcc-a-danger-to-society.html
Perhaps the only surprising thing in the ad is that it says ‘mummy’ rather than ‘daddy’. Surely a mother couldn’t ever hurt her child, now?
I can’t decide whether we should ban mothers or children. Although that decision always seems clear enough when I’m on an aircraft.
AJ
