ContactPoint G20 Street Action Cock Up Hopes

ContactPoint, the government's child-snooping database, is in chaos already. HT Dare To Know.

London Lockdown: ahead of protests at the G20 'summit' the press are hoping for some street action. Wouldn't it be really great if the protestors comlpetely wrong-footed the whole lot of them by NOT TURNING UP AT ALL?

Question that occurred to me during a beery moment the other day: if we are paying local councils to take away our rubbish, ie to provide us with a service, what right do they have to fine us for not filling our bins properly? Surely this is the wrong way round?

Besides which, if Labour have their way, garbage collection will become fully privatised and we'll have to pay individually to have it carted off - they removed the statutory obligation for local councils to take our rubbish last year. And no doubt there's something tucked away in an EU directive about all this, which doesn't bode well, because the Conservatives will no doubt have to do the same.

And another thing: I keep reading various Euroweenies criticising people who don't like the EU by saying they deliberately misconstrue what the EU is doing. By saying that directives, for instance, aren't 'laws' but goals towards which national governments should work. Bullshit. Directives have to be implemented, full stop. The only freedom a national government has is in tailoring it to fit into their existing processes. The end result is the same.

Of course, if we weren't a member of this bloated, inefficient, corrupt, wasteful, undemocratic Eurostate we wouldn't have to spend time and money on implementing their stupid directives. That would save parliament at least half its legislative time.

The Hungarian Prime Minister has resigned. It never occurs to The Spawn of the Manse and his cohorts that they have no moral right to stay in power. You would have thought that anyone in that position would be only too happy to say, "we've fucked it all up, we don't know what to do, over to you, Dave. You can carry the can, now, we're off for a rest." Absolutely no integrity.