I think Gordon Brown is ill

[sagiliam]

He's seen common sense. There is the tiniest smidgen of hope for our wholly american-ised nanny state...well maybe. I'll believe it when i see it.

https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3193500.ece

[Hetzer]

Somebody must have sent him a link to this site and given him a dose of reality.
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[UrbanRacer]

please let this happen

[Hetzer]

Will we get BB guns and Samurai swords back?
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[cestrian]

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last" - Winston Churchill.

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[SoND]

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[Itchy]

[Kris]

Complete BS soundbites to appease the liberals, who'll now think everything's fine and go back to sleep.

Brown's still the same Globalist puppet, intent on f^cking us all over with their 'New World Order'. See link below...

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6277747.stm
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[Makaveli_Rydah]

Rather than make a new topic i'll add this here ......

"home office to crack down on RADICAL web sites "

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080117/tuk-uk-britain-extremism-fa6b408_4.html

Only it's they who decide what is and what isn't "radical"

Goodbye free speech and expression
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[cestrian]

[Didge]

All talk. The safety nazis are still there, as this part of the article shows:-

There will be disappointment that Mr Brown’s response to such killjoy acts is not to halve the number of health and safety officials or revise the hundreds of regulations introduced under this Labour Government.

[Didge]

..........and of course, this is the sort of rubbish that should be done away with, but I'll only believe it, if it ever happens.
I'll not hold my breath.

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/7196104.stm

[ram_doom]

This government is a bit sinister really. Its all gone a bit "v for vendetta"
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[Itchy]

A point of thought occured to me in that is the reason we , when I say WE I mean the UK in general has declined so badly in recent times that we are no longer a nation of risk takers and have become risk adverse to such an extent that we have atrophied?.
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[phil2alp]

This Risk and Regulation Advisory Council won't make much difference at all.

I think much of the new health and safety regulations and organizations fear of these regulations arises from the fear of being sued in court. This in itself stems from when the Government of the day decided to remove the need for people to apply for legal aid to sue for personal injuries. The legal aid council acted as a kind of unofficial filter which filtered out silly and ridiculous claims for personal injury compensation eg someone being hit on the head and injured by a pear falling from a pear tree on local authority owned property (an actual case). If you couldn't get legal aid and wanted to sue, you personally had to fund the case out of your own pocket. So you would only do this if you had a good chance of winning.

After legal aid was stopped the no win, no fee solicitors took over. Organizations such as local authorities are really afraid of the cost of defending cases now so as soon as they get a compensation claim from a no win no fee solicitor they often settle out of court as this is cheaper than fighting the case, never mind the cost of fighting the case and then having to pay damages as well if they lose. The solicitor gets his fee, the client gets his damages.

Because of this the Government has introduced many more health and safety laws. Also organizations and local authorities apply health and safety laws much more rigorously. This in effect protects organizations and local authorities from being sued in the first place as it prevents people from even taking up/being exposed to the risky activity.

It may of course be wrong, just a theory on why Britain has suddenly become such a silly nanny state in recent years.

[Itchy]