tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861279106331108648.post8222896161759274550..comments2023-09-24T01:25:13.638-07:00Comments on Witterings from Witney: The breakdown of trustWitteringsfromWitneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16026875251366365154noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861279106331108648.post-32913418829544323652011-07-10T10:01:15.990-07:002011-07-10T10:01:15.990-07:00ES: Yup, that man is a legend in his won lifetime!...ES: Yup, that man is a legend in his won lifetime!<br /><br />As a commentator said on another post, if we to have elected police commissioners, then why not an elected DA for each local authority area? Makes sense to me!WitteringsfromWitneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16026875251366365154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861279106331108648.post-79503410915316372822011-07-10T08:57:15.838-07:002011-07-10T08:57:15.838-07:00Why not dust off and modernise the ancient office ...Why not dust off and modernise the ancient office of Sheriff as an elected one. The City of London already elects its own Sheriffs - a jealously guarded, symbolic privilege.<br /><br />Then you could bring over Sheriff Arpaio from Arizona, who keeps getting re-elected although he must be in his Eighties by now. He could give some handy tips.<br /><br />When told that the county would have to pay millions for a new jail, he refused and built a tented camp in the desert instead. When prisoners complained of heat and cold, he reminded them that better men, serving their country, were putting up with worse conditions. <br /><br />If they didn't like prison, there was no need to volunteer to come back. He also introduced a women's chain gang. "We are an equal opportunity incarcerator," he said. He put a large neon sign outside his prison camp, saying "VACANCIES".<br /><br />Just the sort of chap we need.<br /><br />In fact, he is doing the job of SHeriff which our ancestors would have recognised.Edward Spaltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04168350315689612490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861279106331108648.post-85429697579007082842011-07-10T07:31:24.049-07:002011-07-10T07:31:24.049-07:00TT: Good suggestion (should have thought of that!)...TT: Good suggestion (should have thought of that!). If elected police commissioners are proposed then it makes sense to have an elected DA.<br /><br />You second comment re SKY just underlines my post about political bias.WitteringsfromWitneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16026875251366365154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861279106331108648.post-40747718622568763522011-07-10T03:13:13.928-07:002011-07-10T03:13:13.928-07:00The last thing our cozy media club want is a Briti...<i>The last thing our cozy media club want is a British version of Fox News!</i>.<br /><br /><br />That may be true, but if Murdoch were so keen it would have happened firstly by making FOX NEWS unencrypted in the UK to build an audience; and then by tightening up the dreadful Sky News which makes Al-Jazeera such an attractive alternative with serious discussion and professional presenters<br /><br /><br />Far too many SKY people are in bed with politicians and their accomplices - it is all too matey and a conspiracy against the public.TomTomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861279106331108648.post-44889289585679682762011-07-10T03:06:49.938-07:002011-07-10T03:06:49.938-07:00Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 cover...Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 covers interception of communications..........Bribery Act 2010 covers Bribery.<br /><br />HOWEVER, if it is the Police which is being bribed they might decline to gather evidence for the CPS.<br /><br />This shows why the REAL change that is needed is to ELECT District Attorneys who can initiate Investigations and ORDER the Police to produce evidence.<br /><br />The CPS is a joke and the Met is corrupt. It is time for a proper system of DAs based regionally with the Senior DA being elected.TomTomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861279106331108648.post-19825585566773641092011-07-09T00:59:44.795-07:002011-07-09T00:59:44.795-07:00S: As I said phone hacking is illegal - unless you...S: As I said phone hacking is illegal - unless you happen to be the state!<br /><br />ES: That the aim was to shut down a right-wing press before it even 'got off the ground' was never in doubt. The last thing our cozy media club want is a British version of Fox News!WitteringsfromWitneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16026875251366365154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861279106331108648.post-6763641831614719522011-07-09T00:51:32.887-07:002011-07-09T00:51:32.887-07:00Grubby journalists behave in grubby ways - and tha...Grubby journalists behave in grubby ways - and that's news? Not really. The extent is surprising perhaps.<br /><br />But they lied to Parliament!<br /><br />"Journalists lie to politicians" is a reversal of the usual state of affairs. So I suppose it is news - a sort of "man bites dog" story.<br /><br />From the BBC's disproportionate, wall-to-wall coverage, I am in no doubt that their aim is to stop a potential vigorous competitor in News who is outside the Guardianista orbit. Detestable as Murdoch may be, he's not as loathsome as the BBC because I don't think he doesn't make the po-faced pretence that his papers and media are<br />impartial.<br /><br />But it looks now as if they will see him off.Edward Spaltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04168350315689612490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861279106331108648.post-46860003569779762932011-07-09T00:31:08.137-07:002011-07-09T00:31:08.137-07:00What I find amazing is surely phone hacking must a...What I find amazing is surely phone hacking must already be against the law. Yet my own MP George Young speaks on our local radio about how the press must be better regulated. The phone hacking by NOTW should be prosecuted under any such law and if that law does not exist should do. But why must the press be better regulated? But then my MP is a monley in a blue suit.Stuartnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861279106331108648.post-54214702426003221862011-07-08T14:50:42.569-07:002011-07-08T14:50:42.569-07:00Or: Of course it was deliberate....!
jic: Too rig...Or: Of course it was deliberate....!<br /><br />jic: Too right they are colluding - have they ever stopped?WitteringsfromWitneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16026875251366365154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861279106331108648.post-23087195010831759792011-07-08T09:43:05.200-07:002011-07-08T09:43:05.200-07:00If only this matter; the hacking and illegal payme...If only this matter; the hacking and illegal payments to police officers; were the straw that broke the camel's back. If only it was the matter that brought politicians, the press and the police to some form of justice. The effers are so powerful that I suspect even as I write this, they are busy colluding amongst themselves on how to limit the damage.john in cheshirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00179825507377423624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861279106331108648.post-91656494550283344192011-07-08T09:30:38.073-07:002011-07-08T09:30:38.073-07:00"Have we not arrived at a situation where, as..."Have we not arrived at a situation where, as the politicians seem unable to effect that change, we the people should do so?"<br /><br />Too few educated people left too do it, WfW. Was that deliberate, I wonder?Oldrightiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03192587284458430556noreply@blogger.com