Selling speed cameras

Can I possibly be the only one who saw this coming?

With the money grabbing attitude that is so prevalent in Whitehall  I thought it obvious that with a network of cash generating speed cameras already in place, no matter how unpopular or for what reason, they would seek to sell them off to raise cash rather than spend money decommissioning the network.

The interesting point for me is that the suggestion to sell off the ‘assets’ has come from the head of roads policing at the Association of Chief Police Officers.  Selling off the enforcement of speeding fines would save resources for the public purse within councils and the police service of course and every penny counts at the moment.

Can you imagine the furore that will ensue when the private clamping firms, who have been promised hard times by regulators because of their charlatan practices, win the bid to operate the system in possibly your area?  I can!

The area of individual privacy will I believe be a major concern for years to come and this decision would certainly impinge upon this area.  A large government database of personal details and certainly information that would be invaluable to identity theft fraudsters would have to be shared with many contractors who in turn would have many employees trusted with your information.

My instinct is that the government should run a country mile from this ‘suggestion’ but I doubt that they will.  This is one for the future.  In the short term councils across the country will find themselves ‘encouraged’ to maintain the system in the public interest of course.

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Underfunding of armed forces

The latest symptom of the continuing decline in the capability of our armed forced comes in the revelation that our Navy pilots are being sent to America for training.

“Why?” I hear you asking and the answer of course is a financial one.  The catapult launch variant of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is cheaper than the version with the vertical take off and landing capability.

If this were just a Navy matter then reason may be seen to justify the decision but the RAF are to have this beast foisted upon them as well.  I am certain that the vertical take off and landing capabilities of the aircraft that these will eventually replace have been very useful to the Airforce over the years when supporting the Army in front line positions.  A capability that apparently is to be taken from them.

I cannot see how it is in the national interest to reduce the capabilities of our armed forces.  Unless of course your vision of defence for the future includes a European Armed Forces into which our current services would be merged.  I believe that this is the way that the main three political parties will take us which ever one you voted for.  In a similar vein to mass and continuous immigration.  If it is conceived, through rose tinted glasses no doubt, to be better for the economy in the short term then it will be policy.  The damage that will be caused to the fabric of the nation is apparently unimportant.  The proud history and traditions will be written off.  The community ties abandoned and all in the name of the globalist European Union.

If you need it you have my assurance.  The British National Party could never distance itself from its stance of maintaining our own independent armed services and their capabilities.

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Picnic in the park II

The ‘Picnic in the Park’ is an annual event run by Coventry BNP.  Members and non members are equally welcome.  The basis of the day is as implied in the title.  Coombe Park outside the city of Coventry is the venue and there is no political content on the day what so ever.  A pleasant change it makes too!

This years event coincided with a veteran motorcycle rally which provided an additional attraction.  The Lord Mayor of Coventry was there but not with us you understand.  We like non members but standards do have to be observed.  At least the Mayor was being driven in a locally built Jaguar.

There is no formal program of events for the day.

People start turning up at eleven and do as they please.  The park is huge and there are many places for a quiet walk, playing for all ages, formal and informal gardens on quite a scale, woodland and water features to delight the eye.  We followed this group away from the picnic for a wander before sloping off to play on some dead trees.  Does anyone recognise the bloke on the bike?

Its the bloke on the bike!  None other than organiser of the day Mark (Badger) Badrick keeping company with Tom Gower and myself.  It is my blog after all and I shall be in a picture if I want to.

A good day was had by all.  If you were at the event then many thanks for making it as successful as it was.  If you missed it this year keep in touch and come to next years ‘Picnic in the Park’.

For anyone that is interested I have included the following link to my ‘Picnic in the Park’ album on Facebook.  If you are looking for group photographs I will save you the trouble.  There are none.  The British National Party has a great many supporters who would not appreciate being photographed at a BNP event no matter how loose the association because the union at their place of work would try to get them sacked for their political beliefs.  Our Fascist government supports this behaviour completely.

Picnic in the park

At this years picnic in the park I came across this character. More pics later.

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