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1000  18 May  2004

The Jimmy White Experience

This short report appeared in The Guardian, last Saturday 15 May -

"Snooker player
Jimmy White has
been cautioned
for possessing cocaine
in Preston, where
he was playing
an exhibition match"

 

What is going on?  The Police will tell you that this is part of their new softly-softly strategy. 

But the greater truth (I allege) is that the Authorities are terrified of prosecuting anyone for the crime of simple possession of any unlawful drug.  Why?  Because they realise that there is an effective Human Rights defence lying in wait for any unwary Prosecutor.  Article 8 of the European Convention, respect for personal privacy: it has the potential to rip apart the "official" strategy of Prohibition.  The Authorities want to avoid that eventuality.  So they limit prosecutions to aggravated offences to which there is no Human Rights defence.

It is the small-fry who are being prosecuted, those that are too poor to buy their drugs through secure channels, who deal among each other or grow cannabis in among their tomato plants, just to get by.  They are therefore prosecuted for aggravated offences - cultivation, supply, premises-provision or trafficking.  And the Human Rights Act cannot help them. 

  • But Jimmy White would be a different kettle o' fish.  If he were to launch a successful challenge to the Drugs legislation, the effect would be cataclysmic, throughout Europe.  So he just gets a caution, and no possession-only charge...

 

Do you have any experience of maverick Police behaviour in this sector? 

Drop me a line

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1001  24 May 2004

New Labour
New Apprenticeships

Just as I have been saying - Britain can always be relied upon to get it
right...eventually!  This new Apprenticeship Scheme for paying 'pocket money' to the young who are at school or in  apprenticeship is a good step in the correct direction of 'personal sovereignty'.

This is freedom introduced to the young in the small 'bite-size chunks' that they can digest. It will also go some way to putting some dosh into the pockets of a lot of kids who are from really poor families. I can't abide Tony Blair at the best of times, but congratulations are in order for this.

On the subject of helping British kids...

 With the recent wonderful growth of the European Union, is it not a good idea to look at expanding British "high schools" to other countries of the EU?  Would it not be a good idea for there to be an opportunity for British students to do their last 3 years of high school in a British school operating in Greece or Latvia or Portugal or Italy et al? What better way for Britain to produce a corps of future leaders in all fields (not to mention the acquired language skills) who feel as at home in Budapest as they do in Bradford.

I think that such a program, on a big scale (we don't just want Eton on the
Danube) would prove extremely popular with both parents and kids. The same opportunity could be offered to other European countries to do the same with regard to their high school kids and Britain.  Nowhere in Europe is more than a few hours away by plane - thanks to the free market, air fares are as cheap as chips.

Such a program would fit in nicely with my view of Britain as Chairman of
the European Board.  To do this effectively, educational and cultural
groundwork has to be done, and sights have to raised beyond the next
General Election. Chancellor Brown seems to have this sort of vision.

I have suggested this sort of idea here in Australia, in relation to our
"field of dream" South East Asia.  They think I'm mad!

Keep up the good work 
Mike Davis

PS  I thought it was pretty lame to name the new Cunard liner 'Queen Mary 2' - when there wasn't one!   Especially when they deliberately did it - so to avoid naming it 'Princess Diana'.  The British ruling class is pathetic.  Three cheers for Princess Mary of Denmark...

Any thoughts on the development of European school networking?  Drop me a line

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