Buzzin Disgrace

This morning there was a report on a father of two who hung himself after falling behind on his mortgage payments and council tax.

The 40-year-old man lost his surveyor’s job earlier in the year after the housing market slow-down, he was being pressurised to make the payments but could see no way out of the situation.   The judge at the hearing said that he expected more of this sort of death in the future.

The next report was on the ridiculous amount of money the BBC are prepared to pay their popular presenters.

Jeremy Clarkson is believed to get in excess of £2 million a year and allegedly the BBC have now agreed to a cut of the profits from the sales of Top Gear abroad.

It’s our money that is paying their wages, and with a colour TV licence costing £139.50 a year, they’ve got the money to do it.

Normal people are going to be the worst hit, as they try and struggle on with their daily lives while the fat cats and celebrities don’t notice the slightest difference.

Could you do without your TV?

A housing block in Clapham, South London was taken over by 300 squatters, who have made the lives of the local residents a misery.

The squatters, not only the UK but from Italy, Spain, Poland, South Africa, North and South America, Canada, Germany and Mauritius, say they are not scroungers, that’s after they have broken into someone else’s property and wrecked it at a considerable price to the tax payer I might add.

Local residents are furious at council officials for not securing the property properly, after suffering weeks of all-night, rowdy parties, lighting bonfires, covering the area with discarded furniture and rubbish and covering the place with graffiti.

The block of 45 flats belonged to a private owner who had leased it out for temporary accommodation, but just before the property was due to be handed back, the squatters had heard about it and moved in.

Residents had started to feel unsafe in their own homes with strange people hanging around and cars coming and going at all times of the night.

The squatters have defended their right to occupy the flats and had apparently offered to pay rent, yeah right!

Many of the squatters claim not to be able to afford the rent that is being asked as it’s too expensive!  Get a job then, why should you be any different to anyone else!

I would imagine that most of those people are receiving some sort of benefits, and if that’s the case some of it should be used to pay for the damage that now needs to be repaired etc.

These people are not only trespassing but stealing, they have taken something that does not belong to them, surely these laws are in place for a reason.

The Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, has announced that measures are to be taken to tighten the control of the movement of paedophiles.

One of the changes is the amount of time sex offenders can be banned from travelling abroad!  They should never be allowed to travel abroad.  Once convicted they should never be allowed to own a passport for a start.

Currently, police are only allowed to rely on evidence from the person’s previous six months activities and the risk that the individual poses.  Absolutely ridiculous, as this would be in the case of Glitter, that he has be incarcerated for the last couple of years so he would pose no risk!

The group Ecpat UK, has accused the Government of turning a blind eye on the dozens of British sex offenders who travel abroad.

Allegedly, the UK hasn’t convicted a single person of child sex tourism offences since 2005, there is also no public reporting helpline available.

It was reported on the Ecpat UK site, that earlier this year a 77-year-old, British national was arrested for the 6th time by Thai police since 1977.  The child on this occasion was 8-years-old and the pensioner was on bail at the time that the abuse took place.  In 2007, the children involved were just 9 and 11, but as he is still in Thailand the police do not have to do anything in the UK.

There needs to be an awful lot of changes to the ridiculous laws relating to child sex offences in the UK.  Remove their passports and insert some sort of tracking device that is irremovable on the offenders so that they are traced every minute of the day.  Our children deserve to be protected and the same applies to children the world over, at the moment this is not happening and our children are suffering.

As for the sex offenders register, which was set up to contain the details of every offender convicted, cautioned or released from prison for sexual offences against children, but only if they were convicted after 1997.

As for the amount of time they stay on the register is another ridiculous practice.  If they have been in prison for more than 30 months they are on the register indefinitely, however, if they were only imprisoned between 6 months and 30 months, then they only need to remain on there for 10 years, or 5 years if they are under 18.  Once a paedophile always a paedophile.

The register does throw up some concerns however, for example, teenagers who engage in consensual sex can be put on the register.  There needs to be other arrangements put in place for these circumstances as I am sure we would all agree, this is not considered to be child abuse.

Maybe the best result would be just to leave the convicted paedophile with the parents of that child!

Gary Glitter - Child Abuser

Most people would have read the recent reports on child molester Gary Glitter being deported back to the UK by now.

Glitter was convicted in Britain in 1999, for the possession of child pornography, and spent a few weeks in jail, half of the four month sentence he was given.

He travelled to Cambodia where he was expelled in 2002 and then went onto Vietnam where he was convicted of obscene acts with children in 2006.

He was convicted after sex acts with a 10 and 11-year-old girl, and was sentenced to three years in jail.  He had three months cut from his jail term last year for good behaviour and will be released on Tuesday.

Allegedly, police have already booked his ticket to London despite the paedophiles request not to return.  However, Vietnamese law requires he be returned to his home country.

In a recent interview, Glitter said that he intends to resume his singing career and may move to Singapore or Hong Kong.

Hopefully, no person in their right mind would buy his music, not only because it is crap but because they will then be funding the life of a child molester.

Now with his record of child abuse, most countries would never let him stay even if they do let him in, no child would be safe.

So why can he not be arrested when he arrives back on UK soil.  Surely there were provisions when he left jail in the UK, he should be immediately locked back up.

The most worrying thing about Glitter, who’s real name is Paul Francis Gadd, is that he still can’t see what is wrong with what he done, so how can he possibly change if he thinks his actions are acceptable.

He should have his passport removed and be put on the paedophile register.   What right has he too go to other countries and prey on their children, lock him up and throw away the key, he’s scum.

A 74-year-old grandmother attacked her 78-year-old husband with a knife at their home in Ashford, Kent.

Barbara Ellis drunk on gin at the time of the incident, told her husband Roderic, that she hated him before slashing him across the face with a knife, causing a seven-inch wound that required thirteen stitches.

When the police arrived at the home of the couple, Mrs Ellis was cleaning her husbands blood off of the carpet.

She should have been given an immediate jail sentence, set down in the guidelines, however, the judge gave her a 12-month sentence, suspended for a year and ordered her to attend an alcohol treatment programme.

Unbelievable, so what if she’s an old lady, she’s done the crime she should do the time!

Time and time again we listen to the excuse that it was because of the drink, so what is being done about it, absolutely nothing.

You can pick alcohol up for less money than a bag of chips, something needs to be done and fast.