Daft Police and a Navy Exercise of Somalia to rescue the Chandlers

Daft Police and a Navy Exercise of Somalia

A nearby Police force seem to have lost the plot, like many Forces, they are entertaining swingeing staff cuts, massive savings and using over bloated, commercial strength advisory teams to tell them who is to go and who is to stay. I bet they have an IT/HR department with more staff in it, than they have Officers on Nights shift! Or days shift come to think of it.

Now, in their infinite wisdom, they are trying to educate householders who leave a window open, or an unattended door unlocked, they could fall prey to Billy Burglar. We know householders become lackadaisical and leave doors open, or the kids will go out and not shut it properly behind them, or they will sit watching TV at full blast while the rest of the house is left to fend for its self.

Common sense says an officer on finding such an example, would drop a post it note onto the inside of the window and close the door or offending window. Announcing you are going to creep around after midnight and enter peoples property, to rouse them from their slumber, to admonish them for maintaining poor security, is tantamount to being utter foolishness. I have some questions.
• How long before an Officer is held liable for damage done when entering a person’s property?
• What happens if an officer is hurt by the homeowner believing the officers to be a burglar?
• Who selects the properties to be entered, will they choose easily frightened pensioners, or well to do upper crust footballers and politicians living in Alderly Edge near Macclesfield?
• Why cannot the officers be deployed on normal night time duties, as there are so very few on duty after midnight, often only two or three officers are out and about after midnight due to their mates needing to fill in forms in HQ, guard prisoners waiting to be processed, taking their rest break(refs) or travelling to a location for ‘obs’.

Whatever idiot dreamed up this caper needs to be short listed for redeployment, as quickly as possible, maybe to do nights in empty town centres while they learn the lesson of the effects had on the rest of the Force by making stupid public decisions.

He won’t be on his own…

Some spineless uniform wearers need to be redeployed away from the front line in the south of the country. They were unable to jump into a cold wet river to rescue children trapped in a sinking car for fear of Health and Safety, they said. Cowards, if you ask me they were scared of jumping in the river to help save lives. Period. They should be stripped of the privilege of wearing the Police Uniform and be tasked with working with the lonely officer above, the one who also makes stupid decisions.

They wont be on their own.

Gutless and useless labour MP’s are refusing to act upon the news that the Chandlers are still being held on the Malawi Coast by Pirates. These Pirates took them from the Indian Ocean while they sailed upon it legally minding their own business travelling the high seas in international waters. Have our Lords and peers sent in the troops to rescue them, have they heck. They have refused to pay back money they fiddled on expenses.

They have broke the law claiming for mortgages that were already paid for, they have argued gleefully that the prime minister is doing a wonderful job creating more laws in ten years than has been created in the twenty five previous years. They have supported and invested in the banks that have collapsed and been bolstered by public money, they have claimed a life of absurd self emancipation from the taxpayer’s pockets, but they have done nothing in return, to pluck the Chandlers from their dreadful situation.

Even worse, our troops are not that far away, complying with health and Safety, they even give the pirates fuel and fresh water when they are found on their leaky boats on the high seas. How barmy is that!

Put some rounds into the breaches those up to date modern guns and lay a few rounds on the beach before breakfast and while the pirates are running around like headless chickens, a few SBS lads can go in and bring out the chandlers.

As the helicopters leave, start softening up the beach again, and the villages that have supported the pirates. Then, announce to the press that you had nothing to do with it; it was only a couple practice shells that never reached the shore and that no helicopters were used in the Defence Practice Exercise.

Let the Chandlers come home and have a press conference a couple days later to tell their story. Simple.

VS

New Head of British Armed Forces?

The Money Flow

One of today’s (4th Feb 2010) headlines covers the ongoing scandalous behaviour of a few select Members of Parliament and their now well and truly exposed; desire to line their own pockets, with as much of the folding green stuff as they can lay their hands on. Sir Thomas Legg will, as the head of the Inquiry, criticise greedy MPs and demand from about 350 of them, repayments amounting to a million Pounds Sterling.

The Conservatives are suggesting in another headline, the country could save a lot of money by reducing the size of parliament, understanding fewer members of Parliament; means lower costs, and a terrific savings. They want to jigger the boundaries yet again to enable, in their words, votes of equal measure.

Meanwhile, in another office filled with overpaid angst, Military BigWigs are fighting for resources, for money to enable them to better kit and prepared their forces. Mr Bob Ainsworth, Defence Secretary, is going to suggest we have a single head of the Armed Forces rather than a head for each once. That ‘head’ could then decide upon budgets and allowances in an attempt to stifle the three existing heads who are all seeking a larger share of what little funds there are.

I bet the new ‘Head of the Armed Forces’, would need a salary commensurate with such a position, would require expenses to support that role, and underlings on equally attractive salaries. That person will require his own office in Whitehall, attendant staff and secretaries, alternative accommodations and all the festoonery allowances to go with it. There goes half the budget right off the bat. The outcome I fear is less funding going to fewer troops in an increasingly hostile world.

With the reductions in the budget for the Police, leading to fewer police officers, and or, lower paid police officers, or civilians doing a policing role on lower funds, we will be unable to defend our traditional British values at home; with fewer troops we will be unable to police situations away from home. But, we will have a comfortably paid for Government dictating to us that which we should do as they create new laws every day, creating teams of advisors to direct them, fritter away educational opportunities to help our children get into University, squander the fuels that give us heat and light and at the same time, tell us how well they are doing by reducing their free money supply on totally unnecessary new heads of armed forces.

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British Troops and Rachel Chandler

Time is of the essence.

It has gone past the time when a small team of elite, deadly armed people, arrive in the very early hours, and lift out Rachel and Paul Chandler, leaving their Somalian abductors with no doubt over who rules the seas, and who safeguards their own.


The fact that it has not been done yet, shows how ineffective our government is, how malaise our military super-brass are and how concerned our ministers are, for their own self being. The Navy should not need to be told to deploy essential troops to remove a hostile threat to our country folk. The government should not have allowed the Somali, or other pirates to abduct our people, and the MP’s who support the Prime Minister should have been urging him to deploy a recovery team before this abduction was a week old.


If we lose Paul and Rachel to those Somali hands, then those in command will have as much blood on their hands as any other criminals and they should have their freedom removed. Simple as that, lose their income, lose their right to a home, lose their right to travel and lose their right to decide when and what they want to do. Just like those two people held captive in a foreign land.


Our once proud armed forces could have terminated this entire fiasco within hours of it being reported, but such is the limp command, the ineffective decision making and the lack of authoritative control, I fear we are showing the evil few in the world, that our ability to respond under threat, has all but evaporated.


We let anyone into the country, we pay criminals to leave, and then let them back in, we allow anyone to claim fraudulently, tens of thousands of taxpayers pounds, from bankers, to politicians, from criminals to homeless foreigners, yet the simple act of rescuing two people from a backward coastline, seems to be something that defeats us.


Today, our military, our government and those we trust show they are weak as water, spineless and gutless and need to be removed and replaced with people who know what to do when things go wrong.


VS