Vladd’s view of the World

Police order tourists to delete photographs of bus station | Politics | The Guardian

Since when did this become illegal? Even the Met claim not to know of any law making this illegal. I hope the officers concerned were properly disciplined for exceeding their authority. I presume they were actual police officers and not as in the Enfield park incident those jumped up traffic wardens or PCSOs. So are police officers now making the regulations up on the fly? The tourists should be thankful they weren’t citizens of our glorious nation otherwise they would probably have been detained, fingerprinted, and had their DNA taken to be illegally filed before they were finally released with no charge. The public appear to be slowly losing faith in our police and incidents such as this the pre emptive arrest of eco protesters and the police behaviour at the G20 protest followed by the misleading of Ian Tomlinsons family over the cause of his death are not helping.

IPCC chief slams tactics of G20 police at demo | Politics | The Observer

G20 protests: how the image of UK police took a beating | Politics | The Observer 

Labour plans compulsory community service for youngsters | Education | guardian.co.uk

Compulsory Voluntary work? This will not be voluntary it will be work done on the cheap, has someone realised just how impossible it will be to force everyone to stay in education until they are 18 and decided to find them something else to do. Now I am all for encouraging teenagers to volunteer to do community work,but the important word there is volunteer. Who will supervise these ‘volunteers’ and what will be the penalty for not hitting the 50 hour mark? This will not increase a sense of community in our young it will probably just bring about resentment at being forced to do this service.

The whole of football needs to sort out its wages situation, no other industry in the world can survive with such a high percentage of their outgoings going on pay. If all the teams slashed the pay of players to more realistic levels what would happen? The players strike OK replace them with people who will play for the money offered. I suspect even the most diehard fan would have little sympathy for these overpaid pampered leeches of their hard earned cash. If less money was paid to the players then more money could actually be spent on the clubs and we wouldn’t have the pathetic situation of clubs starting the season x number of points behind everyone else as a punishment for getting into financial difficulties. During the 2007/08 season the wages bill of the premiership alone broke the £1 Billion mark, that is 1.48 Trillion Dollars which is higher than the GDP of most countries and that was just 20 clubs. When you have wage bills of this level is it any wonder you end up with players having no connection with the fans anymore, for some the honour of playing for their country just seems to be an extra bonus to the bank balance. I don’t know about you but I think the level of pay to people that don’t actually produce anything is obscene. When you hear of the big 4 clubs setting unofficial pay limits of £100,000 a WEEK it is beyond a joke. In the NFL they have a wage cap and any team found breaching it can be heavily fined or even lose their franchise, in 2008 the cap was just over £78 million pounds per team and look how many players there are in a NFL team. So next time you hand over your hard earned cash to watch a football match just think how much of that ticket price is caused by the greed of these pampered performers who are there to entertain you, not you being there to pay their wages. If only we could remind some of the players of this then maybe they wouldn’t appear to hold the fans in such contempt.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5082582/Britains-sexiest-teacher-to-be-disciplined-over-lingerie-photos.html 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1166044/Teacher-faces-disciplinary-action-parent-uncovers-racy-lingerie-photos-online.html 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7974446.stm

Now this woman won a competition on national television and was voted Britains sexiest teacher, which I feel is far tackier than her having a career on the side as a model. Lets be honest here, these pictures are nothing special, they are not pornographic, they don’t involve pupils, they have no effect on her teaching abilities, in fact given she is a PE teacher it could be argued they show the benefits of exercise on the body . I find it sad not that a parent felt the need to complain, but they felt the need to complain anonymously. How do we know it was a parent who complained?