On Friday my routine was
put out by the Treacle People being on a few minutes earlier than
usual. Today they weren't on at all. I didn't like that. With
satellite TV boasting hundreds of channels of drivel, it's amazing
how little there is worth watching at any time; let alone at 6am. So,
over a spot of brekkie, I went on-line where (not surprisingly) not
much was happening there either.
The morning was foggy.
Foggy and dark, which didn't make for easy driving. As I drove I
listened to the news. The Jimmy Saville saga is now getting silly.
The media has taken to raking dirt against those who didn't rake the
dirt against Jimmy earlier. Surely this is a dangerous route for our
so-called "news" providers to be taking. In future any hint
of potential scandal against anyone will have to be front page
headlines purely to prevent future allegations of cover-ups against
those who produce front page headlines of dirt and allegation.
The news also railed
against a cover-up of police corruption during the miner's strike of
1984. It's no secret that there were problems in the police forces of
those times. History has recorded what went wrong and the riots that
came as consequences. Surely there must be something more news-worthy
than raking up stuff from thirty years ago?
In fact there was very
little worthy of note in the news other than the surprise revelation
that he ex -head of the metropolitan police has announced that he
feels that the general public should boycott
the upcoming elections for the positions of police commissioners.
Apparently police forces are now to be accountable to elected
officials. It's a good idea in principle, but it has the problem of
all democracy in that will the right people get elected. Who is
standing for the position of police commissioner in my area? I didn't
know so I
found out.
Surprise, surprise. I
don't know of any of them. I've never heard of any of them. And most
(but not all) are standing on the basis of their political
affiliation; making the same tired promises that we have come to
expect from all politicians.
I don't believe in
democracy. It's a good idea in theory but in practice it's rubbish.
It doesn't work. We never have the choice that the whole thing
promises. Has anyone ever voted for the elected official that they
actually want? Don't we actually just kid ourselves into feeling we
have a democracy when in fact we just get to choose between
(probably) unsuitable candidates that someone else has chosen
for us.
Surely in this day and
age we should have the technology to be able to select a list of
suitable candidates on the basis of personality profiling and
career/life experiences.
As it is I for one will
be using random guesswork to hopefully select the least unsuitable
candidate to be our police commissioner.
Work was dull. Quite
often when Steve and I find our days off co-incide we go off
geocaching together. Today I was working but Steve wasn't. I got an
intermittent stream of texts as Steve walked wound South Ashford
finding the "Fudge's Follies" series of geocaches I
put out a few weeks ago. It would seem that the logs in some of them
are rather damp. Replacing them will give me something to do on this
week's day off.
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