Tony Blair’s Britain

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Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and the Department Of Dangerous Daisies goes on high alert;

We are asked to believe that plastic flowers are too dangerous to leave in a cemetery because, according to a council spokeswoman, they could get caught up in lawnmowers, and “the bits of plastic flying around could be very dangerous.”
Too bad for the Nazis they didn’t think of dropping bits of plastic flowers during the Blitz, instead of bombs. Evidently the British would have surrendered.

h/t Peter G.

20 Replies to “Tony Blair’s Britain”

  1. There’s nothing more exhilerating than running something through the blade of a powerful lawnmower!! A styrocup, an “Oh Henry” wrapper, or a hotdog!! I can see why some of my ancestors were obssessed with Dr. Guillotine’s invention!!!

  4. This is the natural consequence of bureaucracy and government; governments pass laws, and when they run out of sensible laws to pass, they continue to pass nonsense laws. On an even weirder note, a couple of “Bigfoot hunters” in Georgia claim to have found a body, and they’re having a press conference on Friday (complete with DNA tests, or so they claim). http://searchingforbigfoot.com/

  5. One wonders if the paper/biodegradable flower-selling lobby is behind this, no?
    See flakey idea, follow money, find sleazy, hidden marketing droid behind curtain.

  7. This British story way out ranks the plastic flowers. From The Daily Mail.
    A soldier returning from Iraq in full combat uniform was thrown off a train after a ticket inspector demanded proof he was eligible for an Armed Forces discount.
    Rifleman Zachary Hoyland, 19, had been unable to pick up his Services railcard from barracks and was told the cheaper ticket he had been bought was not valid without it.
    But the official refused to show any leniency, instead telling him: ‘I don’t know what you are complaining about.
    ‘It’s not as if you’ve taken a bullet or anything.’
    With the help of a friendly passenger, Rifleman Hoyland had already managed to find the extra £50.50 he needed to pay the full fare.
    But he was understandably outraged by the ‘bullet’ remark and swore at the ticket inspector – who, to the disbelief of other passengers, ordered him off the train at the next station.
    After a gruelling three-day journey from the Iraqi front line, Rifleman Hoyland was forced to disembark at Chesterfield and had to wait for another train to take him the final ten miles to his home in Sheffield.
    The soldier, who was wearing body armour and carrying his helmet and Army backpack at the time, yesterday admitted he had lost his temper.
    But he insisted he did not physically harm the ticket inspector, who he accused of ‘not liking squaddies’.
    ‘People on the train were looking at him and couldn’t believe what he was doing, and after I got off a bloke came over who had been on the train and said it was disgraceful,’ he said.
    ‘I admit I was kicking off, but I couldn’t believe he said that.
    ‘Luckily none of my mates out there were killed, but for all he knew my best friend could have died. He doesn’t know anything and had no right to say something like that.’
    He added: ‘I was nearly home when the ticket was checked and he said I had to pay £50.50 extra.
    ‘I wasn’t happy, but in the end I offered to pay the difference between a discounted and a normal ticket.
    ‘With the help of a girl on the train, I scraped together the money, but when he made that “taking a bullet” comment it really wound me up.
    ‘It had been a long three days from Iraq and I was one stop from home. I said a few things that I shouldn’t have.
    ‘He told me to get off the train. I didn’t want any trouble, I just wanted to get home so I got off and used the ticket to get on the next train.’
    Rifleman Hoyland had been serving in Um Quasar in Iraq with 1st Battalion, The Rifles, guarding a naval port, escorting troops and carrying out search and patrol operations.
    After flying back from Iraq, he had been unable to pick up his possessions at the barracks in Chepstow because it was closed.
    The soldier said he was issued with the discounted ticket at Chepstow Station without a problem.
    ‘I was in full deserts because I had no civilian clothes with me, so obviously I was coming home from duty,’ he added.
    His mother Samantha Wood, 40, said her son had volunteered to go to Iraq and is heading for Afghanistan in October.
    ‘The whole episode is absolutely disgusting,’ she added.
    ‘He has been in Iraq fighting and serving his country. He is not asking for any recognition for anything.
    ‘People were clapping and cheering him when they saw his uniform.’
    A spokesman for Cross Country Trains said the company takes allegations of verbal assault on its staff very seriously.
    He added: ‘There will be no discounts available without an Armed Forces railcard. We will investigate this if the gentleman concerned wishes to contact us directly.’
    Discrimination against troops in uniform led to Gordon Brown requesting an investigating into public attitudes towards the Armed Forces.
    The result was a proposal for a criminal offence outlawing discrimination against servicemen and women wearing their uniform in public.
    In previous cases, troops returning from Afghanistan were told to change into civilian clothes before landing at Birmingham Airport, while in Peterborough RAF personnel were banned from wearing uniform in town because of the verbal abuse they received.

  9. and more from the UK. An attempt at a Citizen’s arrest turns into the arrest of the citizen – an ex-cop no less. Labour at it’s absolute decline:
    Former police officer held in cell after confronting yobs
    A former police officer was arrested and held in a cell after confronting a group of unruly teenagers over their behaviour.
    By Nick Allen
    Last Updated: 7:57PM BST 13 Aug 2008
    Paul Lawson, 52, challenged the youths after they threw a beer can at his car as he drove past.
    Mr Lawson told two police officers that the gang had threatened to kill him and smash up his vehicle.
    But he was then accused of attacking one of the teenagers and held in a police cell for two hours before being bailed on suspicion of assault causing bodily harm.
    The former inspector from Morpeth, Northumberland, who served 30 years with London’s Metropolitan Police, was eventually told seven weeks later that no further action would be taken against him.
    He said: “I still can’t believe this. As far as I am concerned, the police just abrogated their responsibility and should be ashamed of themselves.”
    The incident happened late on a Friday night as Mr Lawson and his wife Chris, 54, a nurse, drove home.
    Mr Lawson said: “They were the usual crowd of boy racers who gather in Morpeth and I got out and moved towards them.
    “I was planning on making a citizen’s arrest but things very quickly turned nasty. I was surrounded by about 12 of them.
    “They told me to leave or they would kill me and the ringleader said if he saw my car parked in Morpeth again they would wreck it.”
    Mr Lawson found two patrolling police officers in the town centre and reported the incident to them, but said they did not bother to take his details and simply promised to patrol the area.
    A fortnight later he was summoned to Bedlington police station where he was interviewed, arrested and held in a cell.
    Mr Lawson said: “I was told I had been arrested on suspicion of actual bodily harm and that a youth claimed I had grabbed and bruised him. I was absolutely furious about that, it was unbelievable.
    “Up to today I have not heard about any action taken against the youths who threatened me.”

  10. Of course plastic flowers are a health risk. A goodly proportion of the residents there are already deceased. Coincidence? /rimshot please

  11. The link between plastic flowers and death is undeniable, although further studies are required in order to determine exactly how the two are related.
    Grants are available for the asking.
    Until an outright ban on plastic flowers is imposed, graphic illustrations on the packaging will serve as an interim measure.

  12. What a to-do about nothing. It has nothing to do with Blair’s England.
    I served on a cemetery board and plastic/silk flower arrangements can include wire and all the ‘junk’ left on graves are in most cases (if not all) banned. The high cost of maintaining local cemeteries is a worry to nearly (and again, if not all) communities across the country. How do you tell a loved one to read the deed and abide by the cemetery policy? I can tell you: With a great deal of trepidation.
    Tolerate one and you have a cemetery full of ceramic angels, solar lights, bird chimes,and shepherd hooks that the caretaker has to manoeuvre around.
    The result: Longer hours, unbalanced books.

  13. It is mind blowing that Britain is engrossed in protecting it’s citizens from the ravages of plastic daisies, but not a thought given to the treacherous Muslim hordes they now have in the country.
    Britain is has become what can only be described as a very bad acid trip.
    Monty Python was right about everything.

  14. Gellen said “What a to-do about nothing. It has nothing to do with Blair’s England.”
    You’re missing the point here. If plastic flowers create a mess and result in more work for the caretaker, fair enough. Then why not say so? To ban plastic flowers using the reasoning that they are “dangerous” is patently stupid and only serves as another example of the nanny-state mentality that is all too prevalent today.

  15. Please God, not the plastic daisy bits. I confess to my sins and repent. Anything but the plastic daisy bits, please!

  16. Well, we’ll know what NOT to throw on England’s grave once they’re finally done shuffling off the old mortal coil.
    Let us know if there’s going to be a ceremony, after they disconnect the tubes and wires.

  17. Posted by: tranio at August 13, 2008 11:55 PM
    My nephew served in the Canadian army for 20 years. On a return trip from Germany, he landed in toronto and cleared customs. He was in full uniform, and the turban wearing customs guy said, in a heavy Pakistani accent, “welcome to my country, what is the purpose of your visit?”
    I see no reason for not stomping people like that.
    In England, I see even more reason to stomp people like that. British soldiers have been on the front lines for centuries. They never had a lull in the action. If there was no other place to get shot at, they could always go to northern Ireland.

  18. What can one expect in a socialist hell hole? They’ve banned bubbles and balloons because they are dangerous, I’m serious. They are currently designing roads that are easier for drunk people to navigate. They’ve padded poles in Londen so people text messaging won’t hurt themselves when they walk into said pole. Jesus Wept, England is the country the leftards admire the most their utopian dream is to turn Canada into Englandstan.
    Vote for a liberal and you’ll get your wish, it starts with garbage police and it grows more innane by the day. Arresting a police office because he stood up to scum sucking bullies, of course that’s just normal over there.

  20. You’re right, of course, Biff, but common sense doesn’t enter into it, as you would soon learn. One man was so upset when told he had to reduce the hundred or so plastic flowers on his wife’s grave to a more reasonable number, he said he would have her body exhumed and buried elsewhere. We agreed on on a more tasteful display of fifty.
    The case of the soldier in the railway car was more indicative of a country totally out of control.

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