[Mgb-v8] [Mgs] [MG-MGB] Bureaucracy - was Convertibles make you deaf

[James J.]

While I am an Anglophile through and through, and have the utmost love 
and respect for my UK/CAN/AUS/NZ family (especially on the battlefield), 
I truly worry about the direction of their governments.  England's gun 
and knife laws (as well as the surveillance cameras everywhere) have 
left the People just as powerless to effect ultimate change as they were 
before the Magna Charta, and remind us all that the people there are not 
sovereign and remain subjects.  The governments of the EU lack a healthy 
fear of their population.
Just my American, gun-nut, uncivilized 2-cents....

James J.


Paul Hunt wrote:
> I fully realise it.  Gordon Brown spent his whole chancellorship 
> raising the total tax take from 32% of GDP to 45% and gave the money 
> to local councils to spend on non-jobs (like an 'awareness' officer, 
> as if we have a choice who we pay our council taxes to).  Some years 
> ago we were in Italy and an Italian told us that the Germans invent 
> the EU laws, the British obey them, the French ignore them and the 
> Italians have never even heard of them.  But it's worse than that, 
> Britain leads the world in 'gold-plating', and I'm not talking about 
> jewellery.  This is taking laws from the EU or central government and 
> seeing how much more restrictive and punitive they can make them.  In 
> the last month there has been a hoo-ha about two police officers who 
> were friends and arranged their shifts so that they could look after 
> each others children when the other was working.  Even though no money 
> changed hands their local council decreed that it was a commercial 
> arrangement and both would have to be assessed by the Criminal Records 
> Bureau and local council for their suitability for childcare.  
> Fortunately in that case the central government department concerned 
> for the national policy told them not to be so stupid.  The same 
> applies to parents with children in social or sports groups who might 
> ferry children from other families to and from venues, but in that 
> case the requirement for the assessment stands.
>
> PaulH.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> What you have to realise that that those people slapping tickets on 
>> people employs not only the slapper-oners but their supervisors, 
>> clerics, paymasters, the people who "train" them and Uncle Tom 
>> Cobbley and all.