Are we becoming a police state after the pantomime of the Yorkshire Police Force who not only invaded the home of our Knight, but also named him in a possible “Witch Hunt.” I understood it to be that you were innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. In this case it does seem to be a one to one situation where the police having had so many complaints regarding this sort of crime, they have assumed that the accuser is telling the truth about the incident. I feel that a person being named and shamed should not happen until the person has had the opportunity to defend himself or herself.
The BBC seem to think they are part of the police force by leaking information regarding the police raid to the press and what an entourage of vehicles there were, several cars going at a very slow speed, so that you could hardly miss the event. Talk about being stabbed in the back.
Those that have been found guilty are now paying the price of their indiscretions and deservedly so.
East Sussex County Council
ESCC have made a statement in the local newspaper in Eastbourne that they must make a cut in their budget for services in Eastbourne between £70 to £90 million pounds over a period of three years, and yet the Eastbourne Borough Council are going to spend £30,000 on a new “BRAND NAME” for Eastbourne.
The waffle of words in the paragraph that the paper printed from an interview with a spokesperson, the head of the Tourism and Leisure did not make sense.
Does Eastbourne need a new identity when money seems to be the crux of some of our problems with regards to services that Eastbourne does not receive anyway, judging by the state of the roads, being one of the major issues that residents are experiencing. Perhaps ESCC and EBC should put their heads together and come up with a strategy that will benefit the residents of Eastbourne, rather than spend Tax Payers money on trivial things.
Eastbourne Pier Blaze
The police feel that the “Pier Blaze” is now a suspected arson attack by, at the moment, someone unknown to them and whoever it was, they are responsible for the death of a workman on the pier. Should workmen who are in a place of danger be harnessed and roped for safety sake? What it is to have hindsight.
Eastbourne Airbourne
I was wondering why there was no queue at this “Ice Cream Vehicle” at Eastbourne Airbourne having not noticed the prices of their product. My wife wanted a ice cream as it was very hot that Saturday. Two Ninety Nines, the smallest 99 I have seen for some time with last year’s supply of chocolate flake at…wait for it….£2.50 each. These people are just GREEDY PIGS exploiting the public out of their hard earned money. Luckily for them I hadn’t noticed the name of the vender. Had I known they would be mentioned in my column. The music at Airbourne was loud and off putting. Not everybody’s cup of tea of the chosen tracks with someone screaming their heads off with a one liner of words repeated several times that the chooser thinks is a brilliant rendition of his favourite collection of modern music that they cannot play at home without upsetting the neighbours. We decided that having seeing the RED ARROWS performing their wonderful aerobatics, it was time for us to be out of earshot of that music which echoed practically all the way to our car outside the TOWNER ART GALLERY.
Local Transport
Are bus drivers conversant with the HIGHWAY CODE or are they immune to the code of the road? I know they have to adhere to their routes and timing, but surely they can be little more observant of other traffic. When a bus stops to pick up passengers and they pull out, it is usual for them to signal and not as the unsuspected driver of a car who is passing at that moment get hooted at. Funnilyy enough other road users are not mind readers.
Free Games
I‘Tunes advertise free games on the internet – no such thing, it is a bit of a con, you get to a certain level where the score is impossible to attain and you have to purchase another five goes for 69p. There is no guarantee that those extra five goes are going to get the score and of course you don’t keep the five extra chances that you have purchased for the next level, you have to purchase the same extra five chances again so you are on a no-winner. My advice is to delete the programme. Buttons and scissors is a “FREE GAME” and addictive.
ESCC Blue Badge Holders
Another load of red tape for participants to trip over with the new improved upteen pages of questions. Had they got it right in the first place without loopholes for the cheats, those who are genuine invalids wouldn’t have to prove they are just as bad as they were when they first applied for a BLUE BADGE. Unless some miracle has occurred during the year and people who are BLUE BADGE HOLDERS are better seems to me that the governing clerical staff have become a load of Bureaucratic Hippocrits. I wonder how they deal with their own family members if one should need to apply for a BLUE BADGE?