Mood and Attitude

….. I wanted two optional extras on my car to make driving for work easier: Carminat TomTom (the one specifically designed for Renault) and their USB plug and play so I can play my iPod through the car’s radio and use the controls on the steering wheel.  Neither of them fu**ing well works.  Excuse my language but I’m really annoyed as the car was delayed for four months whilst they arsed about fitting them and they were paid optional extras.  I thought I might as well have a couple useful extras since I will have to use the car for the next three years.

Let’s take the iPod (Mp3) first.  Renault failed to tell anyone, including their dealers that this device is only compatible with an iPhone.  It does not work with any other kind of device including new iPods.  So it was a complete waste of money.

Secondly the Carminat TomTom.  When they install it the maps are so out-of-date they give you a freebie download so they can be updated.  Unfortunately the SD card they give you to use with the Carminat is not compatible with Tom Tom’s “Home” software.  This is they only way to update the maps, so having been charged a couple of hundred quid for the privilege, I still have to resort to pen, paper and mobile to find my way to some of the more obscurely located services in my work location (which covers the whole of Suffolk and sometimes takes me to herfordshire, cambridge, norfolk).  There are not enough curse words in existence to convey may annoyance with Renault.  I think thieving lying bastards will have to do for now.

On the plus side, the car is quite economical with fuel.  And it’s black

The some cock and bull “research” saying that men should marry women who are five years younger than they are and also more intelligent.  What a crock.  All of my female friends who have husbands five years younger are all over 10 years later still married and in the case of one still living with her partner very happily (six couples).  of the seven friends who have husbands older, 3 have divorced (of those married), two (unmarried) have spilt up permanently and two couples are still married.  So I declare that research total bollocks.  I think the best things for a partnership apart from love, are honesty, being understanding &  not trying to change each other (unconditional acceptance), friendship and shared interests.  Those are things all the couples who are still together have in common, regardless of age differences.

…..and I’ve been awake now for 2 hours.  Yes the clocks went back indicating the start of the best time of year – late Autumn and Winter.  But even though I’ve been inexplicably over-tired lately, I couldn’t get to sleep and once I was, couldn’t stay asleep.  Meh.

Why is it every year some nana-heads spout the same old rubbish about the clocks going back and how stupid people are because they have accidents (won’t somebody think of the children style crap).  And they (those mysterious “they” again) want us to have double summer time.  They should just stick to GMT all year round then people will just be used to it.

I took delivery of my shiny new car this morning (and it really is very shiny).  I got it through work.  It’s a Renault Clio Sport Tourer one of those new kinder-to-the-environment type cars.  Because I have to drive 8000 miles plus for work each year is the reason I’m allowed one.  Makes a big difference.  You can’t smell any exhaust from it and so far it’s extremely economical.  It has lots of gadgets – I even have one of those parking proximity sensors and something essential – Sat Nav!  I have iPod connect but I need to go buy a “phono lead” whatever that is.  My choices were this car or a BMW 1 series.  Since everyone who drives for work seems to have the BMW and because the price was over £100 quid per month cheaper, I went with the Clio estate.  No-one else has one either which is quite nice.  Funny how you become all precious when you get a brand new car.    It came at 9.30 this morning and I’ve only just come in from playing about in it and taking it for a drive.  Now I have around 30 minutes to do my masters assignment (doh).

….Arsehole Griffin showed all who watched that he is a racist, sexist, homophobe whose ideas are based solely on the conspiracy theories of far right madmen.  He was also revealed for the liar he is.  And the slimey wretch that he is, along with his band of IQ deficient bigots who were dotted about the audience who base their views on the garbage they are fed on not on reality (ther ewas one guy going on about eastern europeans and immigrants taking jobs but he could barely string a sentence together and looked like his skin was being held together by exhaled nicotine).  Griffin is nothing more than a far right thug.  His recent attempts to have the public believe that he is a legitimate politician were ruined.  He knows nothing, has know idea how to debate, knows nothing about history and nothing about the country he claims to be worthy of.

I saw in one of the many forum the best insult so far: “Looking like a right prat with his inbred face”.

I reckon I would probably come up on a genetic test more white then he is.

I do think the BBC went ott on the audience members; I think they had every religion, culture and political leaning represented.  It would have been interesting if they had been up north in racist lands and had a bunch of Mr and Mrs Nimby-Bigots as the audience.

I do think one thing the panel said was right – the Labour government has not been taking people’s perceptions of immigration and migration seriously and have done nothing to go out, talk to and put support into the areas where the people have chosen to live.  Generally all the people who have come to Britain (the Portugese, the Polish, the Africans, the Russians, the people from the Middle East) generally go and live together.  For some English people this gives the perception that they are “overrun” with “immigrants”.  This is quite often a false perception but because the current government hasn’t handled it at all, people have turned to Griffin’s far right party out of frustration.  I think if there had been a “none of the above” option, the far right would not be MPs in the European Parliament.  Lets hope the main parties get their act together before the next election.

It really is diabolical.  For the men amongst us, a close up shot of some womans plastic enhanced overly large breasts was probably their only highlight.  For those of us with no interest in that, the series so far is unbelievably poor.  I can’t see this lasting more than one season and I won’t be bothering to watch any more.  Seriously, why couldn’t they just make another couple of SG1 movies?

Hopefully next weeks episode we will see them crash into a star and end it all for everyone.

Some people might be surprised to hear me say that the BBC is absolutely correct in inviting those-who shall-not-be-named-on-this-forum onto Question Time tonight.  They have a code and charter to follow and by not doing so they will be in breach of it.  They rightly point out that the government are the only group who can stop that via legislation, which the government has no intention of doing.

I think the protesters need to face facts; there are a large majority of far right facists and racists amongst the British public and these people will vote for that party.  They already have in their millions – they got their leader into the European Parliament and it is inevitable that they will get MPs into the British Parliament at the next election.

Protesting against them only serves to give them even more publicity and fuels there arguments to those who are ignorant of the real facts and easily swayed by minority opinion.

The three main parties are sorely mistaken if they think that the British public will see the far right party as a joke.  They aren’t a joke and for some people they offer a real alternative to Labour, Lib Dem and the Conservatives none of which have offered any one any good solutions for the diabolical state we are in.

I would suggest that anyone who is not white and/or not indigenous  starts planning for a future that sees the far right in power.  I don’t think people of Caribbean/African/Indian/Eastern European/Asian and to some extent Scottish/Welsh/Irish ancestry quite realise what will happen when they get in.  According to their policies we will all be removed from our jobs, have our homes and assets taken away and they will be reallocated to English whites.  We will all be deported to a country of their choosing and will not be allowed to take any savings/assets.  We will all be stripped of our nationality too.  Equality and Diversity law will be rescinded as will the Human Rights Act.  they will also withdraw from any international laws that state that the country must take in refugees.  Rapes will not longer be recognised – it will be the woman’s fault and no more police time (in their view) will be wasted on investigating them.  Women will not be allowed to hold jobs that they consider will be more worthy of a man being in.   There won’t be any recognition of homosexual practice and the laws which protect gays & lesbians will be retracted. The country will no longer support ‘foreign’ policy; all troops will be re-called from overseas endeavours.  If you are a mixed race family you will also be deported.  Charities supporting non-white causes (such Oxfam or Comic Relief) will be banned.  The country will withdraw from Europe.  The country will also have to withdraw from relations with the USA as it will not recognise a black man as President.  And they will be able to do all of this because they will be able to use the armed forces,  to do their bidding.  They will also bring back capital punishment & corporal punishment.  Any religion not of English origin will also be banned so if you are Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, etc you will be out.

Britain is currently considered to be the most racist country on the planet.  The people who think that are correct.  The percentage of people here who aren’t racist is very, very small and therefore insignificant.  There is no future here for the non-white, non-indigenous if that party gets in.  And it’s a very real possibility.

That party are excellent at marketing.  They know exactly what to say to elicit support for their cause, regardless to whether their is any truth in it.  Take a look at the last census to see just how small a minority the black population of Britain is.  Yet that party will have it’s members believe that we number in the millions and are the cause of all the problems in this country.  Once we’re all deported (all us non-whites and non-indigenous whites), it will be interesting to see what happens when that party’s supporters realise there is no-one to the menial jobs their own countrymen won’t do, why there are no reductions in crime and why the country is worse than it ever was.

Congratulations to Jenson Button and the Brawn team being crowned driver and team champions of F1 2009 in the penultimate race at Sao Paulo.  Button’s drive from 14th on the grid was worthy of Michael Schumacher.  And it was a long time coming.  Shame on presenters David Coultard and Eddie Jordan for saying at the start that they didn’t think Button would win the championship from 14th on the grid in today’s race.  BBC please get rid of them and get some people on that are more interesting, thanks.  Thank frell we have Martin Brundle who does know what he’s talking about.  So, two years running there has been a Brit as the champion.  Let’s hope next year we get three in a row.

A victory for patients and for common sense:

A nurse who was struck off the register for secretly filming care for the elderly at a Brighton hospital has won her battle to return to work.

The High Court approved a settlement between Margaret Haywood and the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

The striking-off order imposed in April this year will be replaced with a one-year caution, which means she can now work as a nurse.

Ms Haywood filmed at the Royal Sussex Hospital for a BBC Panorama programme.

Footage from Ms Haywood’s filming was broadcast in July 2005 and showed examples of neglect, including an elderly patient sitting in clothes he had soiled the night before.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council found her guilty of misconduct during a fitness to practise hearing and she appealed in May.

Ms Haywood, from Liverpool, said she was delighted with the verdict.

“Losing my registration after 25 years as a nurse was devastating,” she said.

Read the whole story at the BBC.

In developing their new guidelines on how nurses can escalate concerns and/or areas of poor patient (including the provision of resources for care) they need to include guidance on how such nurses can be supported.  There needs to be clearer routes for patients and their relatives to raise concerns too.  I have heard to many accounts from patients & relatives/visitors of  poor treatment by nursing staff (nurses and support workers) ranging from rudeness to being refused pain relief and care interventions following complaints about care.  People are too scared to say anything.  I am not, but am often prevented from doing so because so many people are afraid that they will be refused treatment and treated badly.

I wonder if it would ever happen?  In the past no nurses would even consider striking because of the Code of Conduct and because of the potential for serious harm to come to patients.  Now I’m not so sure.  The media seems hell bent on demoralising the NHS workforce, the East Anglian Daily Times in particular seems to be running a private campaign against us.

People generally don’t appreciate how good a system we have for healthcare.  Granted, there are some things wrong with it mostly related to the allocation of resources and some short-sightedness in relation to training and the provision of care (due to numerous time and motion studies, actual care was not considered, so the powers that be had the justification to cut care staff numbers and they will do it again.  You cannot put a time on how long it takes to care for a person physically, mentally and emotionally).  I wonder how quickly things would change if all front-line staff walked out at 7am (nurses, doctors, support staff, allied health professionals, everyone).

I doubt it will ever happen.  Within the first hour I imagine the number of serious untoward incidents would number in the thousands.