British Armed Forces and Government being girly about Jimmy McGovern drama

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/concoughlin/100064712/bbcs-refusal-to-drop-jimmy-mcgovern-drama-is-an-insult-to-our-brave-soldiers/

http://news1.capitalbay.com/news/bbc_snubs_army_head_s.html

What was all that huffing and puffing and hissing and spitting all about? Any displays of cowardice should be punished severely, surely? Jimmy McGovern's drama series is about doing something stupid and ending up in the dock. Two CHAVs join up and find they are not up to soldiering. One kills himself after being made camp "bitch" and is bullied relentlessly by Corporal Buckley for being unable to return fire. The other stupid CHAV kills Corporal Buckley for making his mate kill himself thus depriving the army of a good fighting man and is sentenced to 25 years. What is the fucking problem??

Is there just a hint that they should have been given counselling and that they may sue the MoD for hurting their feelings, not showing them enough respect, ignoring their human rights and causing them emotional distress?

Has the army gone girly? We are assured by Chief of General Staff Sir Peter Wall, Colonel Tim Collins and now Sir Richard Dannatt, that bullying doesn't go on at all. Patrick Mercer MP is "offended" on behalf of everyone in the Armed Forces, apparently. But isn't it actually necessary for martial discipline? Cowards should be victimised and given a bad time to discourage the others from similar behaviour in a war situation. Why is the government behaving so oddly in this quite morally uncontroversial drama?

British Generals have lower standards than Professional Builders

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/7983492/Dannatt-fury-over-farce-of-MoD-away-day.html

The military should have said the war was unwinnable and left it at that. To make the point the generals should have resigned, but that is of course too much to expect these days. They would have had to give up their pensions, after all.

Professional builders have a duty to tell their customers if what the customer wants cannot be done within the time and for the money the customer is contemplating, if that is indeed the case.

If the customer does not know what he is contemplating and appears confused and inconsistent, such a builder should give this kind of customer a wide berth because anything done on this basis is going end in tears and endless disputes. 

Tragically for British soldiers killed and maimed in Afraq, it would appear that these so-called professional fighting men have standards of practice that fall well below that of the professional builder. 

How utterly uninspiring is Sir Richard Dannatt, who speaks just like a civil servant or a nervous businessman, not at all like a leader of men in battle.  

Why the British are either very stupid or very demented

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8160000/8160335.stm

This is the running order of today's Today programme with my comments saying why we are a country of consisting of demented old women being governed by a bunch of demented old women whose opposition is another bunch of feeble-minded old women.

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A 22-year-old man from east London who began binge-drinking at 13 has died after being denied a life-saving liver transplant. Professor Ian Gilmore, president of the Royal College of Physicians, explains the story of Gary Reinbach, who was given only a few weeks to live after developing cirrhosis of the liver.

"Good!" is my response to the ritual hand-wringing. Does anyone in his right mind even think this alcoholic loser even deserves chicken liver pate on toast?

0810
Britain's professions have become more socially exclusive, a report
into social mobility suggests. Former cabinet minister Alan Milburn, the author of the report, discusses his findings.

Well, of course. Knowing what we do about Britain's state comprehensives, which 80% of children attend, why would anyone give these crap-educated children the time of day at all? Most of them can't barely read, write, spell or count. The ones that can count a little are wobbly on their time tables. Everything is being progressively dumbed-down, even as the educational establishment pretends that children must be getting cleverer because more of them are getting grades that say they have got A and A*.

That is because they think we have been dumbed-down too.

In British schools, sex education consists of teaching children the Joy of Sex, ie telling them how to do it, instead of telling them that bringing yet another little bastard into the world is a bad thing for them and a bad thing for the society they live in.

Yet, mildly suggest that child benefit be withdrawn from these teen parents, and you get a chorus of disapproval, because it sounds uncompassionate.

The preponderence of the inadequately-parented illegitimate in our schools means that education must be progressively dumbed-down to accommodate their propensity for indiscipline, underaged sex and violence, obesity, autism, violence and neurosis.

But no one mentions or acknowledges this, of course.

0832
The head of the army, General Sir Richard Dannatt, is said to have
infuriated ministers last week by publicly calling for more troops and better equipment in Afghanistan. Today presenter Sarah Montague reports from Afghanistan and talks to Sir Richard about his last journey to Afghanistan before he retires after 40 years of service.

Well, good on you for standing up for the cannon-fodder, General, but there is really no point throwing good money after bad, and sending more people to die in the 21st century Western equivalent of the Peloponnesian War while you're about it. (You know, the one that Athens and Sparta waged with each other for 28 years and which ultimately destroyed Athens.)

0838
Despite overall crime falling by 5% in 2008/9, the fear of crime seems
to go on rising. Filmmaker Roger Graef, who has tried to answer that question in a programme for BBC One, explains why people are more fearful than they used to be.

Because even dumbed-down Britons are not so dumbed-down that they would believe any government statistic now, to give them some credit ...

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Universities should take into account the social background of the
people who apply for courses, a report into social mobility suggests. Shaun Bailey, a youth worker and prospective Conservative party candidate for Hammersmith, and Dr Lee Elliot Major, research director at the Sutton Trust, discuss whether working class pupils should be given special consideration.

If working class people are going to be given a hand-up because they can't quite make it on their own merits - who would want someone from the Peckham Academy in their university unless they start running a course in Degree Level Drug-Dealing, Pimping, Gun Crime and General Gangsterism - why not give a hand-up to lunatics, retards and those suffering from dementia?

Why not indeed?

What a pity there is no dementia test we can make our leaders take, to show how utterly divorced they are from reality, morality and anything that could be described as responsibility and good sense.

If we do not do anything about this, then even death by swine flu is too good for us.

The latest insane suggestion - that schools that would re-open in autum be closed to contain the pandemic - suggests that even the demented know this and are trying to escape their fate by proposing what they think might be solutions.

Let us therefore just speak the truth to each other before the filth and madness that we have accumulated for so long falls on us and buries us alive.

It is the only way to enjoy our last days, is it not?