According to the headline of today’s SUN, glimpsed in the newsagent’s at Cromford as I picked up my Telegraph, Junkie Amy Whinehouse has been let off from possession of Class A drugs. What a surprise!
And what sort of a message does this send? Is it likely to persuade her to seek the help she needs? I doubt it.
Is it going to hammer home to those impressionable young people likely to emulate her lifestyle that drugs are not a good idea? Certainly not, rather it will give the contrary impression, that doing what you want and to hell with the law has now been given official approval.
Given the absence of any meaningful drug rehab programme, a spell inside might have just done the above. Instead she has been given the green light to continue destroying her life.
But then again, with a Government happy to have a self confessed Pot Head as Home Secretary, what do we expect?
Thursday, 15 May 2008
Welcome to my blog
Well, who am I? I’m a member of the Conservative Party and a strong Thatcherite.
So, you will suppose, here is another ex-Etonian, former Oxbridge toff who has made a pile either in Law or in finance.
No bloody chance! First of all, at 56 I am not really a boy. Etonian? WRONG!! Glendale Secondary Modern, Wooler in rural Northumberland more like!
Ah! I’m from a farming background then! WRONG AGAIN! Father was a pitman, mother a pitman’s daughter who, when my parents separated, worked as Cook/Housekeeper for a couple near Wooler.
Oxbridge? Law? Finance? Don’t even think of it. After staying on for CSEs in 1968, I left school and went to the Army Apprentices College at Chepstow, following on with a less than glittering 11½ years in The Royal Engineers. After demob in 1980 I got a job at the BR workshops at Eastleigh, then part of BREL, ten years later getting promoted to a post at Derby.
A couple of promotions later, with my toe on the bottom rung of the management ladder, Mr. Major, in obedience to the EUrine diktat that ownership of the railways and services on them must be separated, committed the gross folly of privatising the Railways and I was out of a job, all be it with a reasonable payoff.
So I then spent 5y studying, first picking up an HND in Mechanical Engineering at Derby, then 3y doing a BSc Physics with Education and Qualified Teacher Status at Sheffield Hallam. I lasted two years in teaching before I finally got the message I was not enough of a masochist to continue in the job.
After that, a couple of years testing a new radio system, best part of a year unemployed, apart from a couple of temporary jobs and back onto the Railway with Network Rail.
So as you see, I have a better working class pedigree than 90% of the Parliamentary Labour Party, my fairly strongly right wing views have been built up over the years and are based on my own observations and experience.
Welcome to my BLOG!
So, you will suppose, here is another ex-Etonian, former Oxbridge toff who has made a pile either in Law or in finance.
No bloody chance! First of all, at 56 I am not really a boy. Etonian? WRONG!! Glendale Secondary Modern, Wooler in rural Northumberland more like!
Ah! I’m from a farming background then! WRONG AGAIN! Father was a pitman, mother a pitman’s daughter who, when my parents separated, worked as Cook/Housekeeper for a couple near Wooler.
Oxbridge? Law? Finance? Don’t even think of it. After staying on for CSEs in 1968, I left school and went to the Army Apprentices College at Chepstow, following on with a less than glittering 11½ years in The Royal Engineers. After demob in 1980 I got a job at the BR workshops at Eastleigh, then part of BREL, ten years later getting promoted to a post at Derby.
A couple of promotions later, with my toe on the bottom rung of the management ladder, Mr. Major, in obedience to the EUrine diktat that ownership of the railways and services on them must be separated, committed the gross folly of privatising the Railways and I was out of a job, all be it with a reasonable payoff.
So I then spent 5y studying, first picking up an HND in Mechanical Engineering at Derby, then 3y doing a BSc Physics with Education and Qualified Teacher Status at Sheffield Hallam. I lasted two years in teaching before I finally got the message I was not enough of a masochist to continue in the job.
After that, a couple of years testing a new radio system, best part of a year unemployed, apart from a couple of temporary jobs and back onto the Railway with Network Rail.
So as you see, I have a better working class pedigree than 90% of the Parliamentary Labour Party, my fairly strongly right wing views have been built up over the years and are based on my own observations and experience.
Welcome to my BLOG!
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