They’ve changed the law. I’m going to presume this is British change in law, rather than European purely on the grounds of the pragmatism involved seemingly in the face of any ‘health and safety’ considerations. And its about chasing moped criminals. Who are horrible little urchins on stolen mopeds (they’re scooters really but for some reason everyone calls them mopeds, even in the distinct absence of pedals) who either: roll up at upmarket jewellers and smash their way in with sledge hammers, then run off on their mopeds, or the moped passengers stealing phones from the hands of people on the streets. Alternatives in the moped criminal options are stealing delivery people’s scooters at knife-point or after an acid attack.

In brief, scooter bandits are not very nice people. The police might chase them BUT; before May, if the scooter riders removed their helmets, the police had to stop pursuit. It was deemed too dangerous to chase obnoxious, thieving little bastards in case they bump their heads. It wouldn’t be fair if people who had innocently been attacking shop-workers with sledge hammers and swords (as happened in Fleet Street, 2 doors away from me), wouldn’t be fair if they bruised their skulls. Be terrible.

The new change in law means not only can the police now chase the offenders but have devised a tactic called ‘tactical nudging’. Which translates from its PC speak as ‘knocking the fuckers off or just plain running them over’.

I think this is awful. Who’s going to pay for the damage to the scooters?

Another terrible travesty of justice has resulted in the latest bout of tube strikes on the Central Line. The strikes are for a ‘persecution of a train driver’. Those bastard TFL people have actually sacked a trade union member!! How fucking dare they? In fact they mustn’t. All the man was doing was driving a tube train while stoned out of his head on dope. I mean, what’s the problem with that? It probably relaxed him nicely, put him in a sweet and mellow place. Not like he was operating heavy machinery or any… well, just a train, virtually drive themselves, they do. Or that he was responsible for the wellbeing of more than say, 300 passengers. But those inconsiderate fascist bastard gov’nors at TFL sacked him. He’d taken a mandatory drug test and failed it. So he insisted on a retake, and failed that. So he demanded his own, private, drug test and guess what, he failed that too. Thus this abject failure on seemingly all counts was dismissed. And the RMT want him reinstated. On the grounds that… (if you can think of any possible mitigation or any reason for re-employment please let me know).

Happy Saturday

A xxxx