23rd July - I'm still here!

A massive three weeks since I last blogged! Maybe I ought to change the daily adventures part of my blog description!

So, what's been happening? Well..........

First off, the job. The place I work at did announce those redundancies, and it was in the Lynn News as I said. As the work closes one of it's departments down, the positions are being made redundant, but the employer is aiming to keep as many of it's staff as it can to avoid redundancy payments. So what's happening is that the redundant staff are being filtered through all the other sections of the business - with the result that it is the site's contractors that are being laid off to make room for the staff.

From what I know (Understand) there's about 40 people being laid off, as well as some middle management. My working world, at the moment, is just full of goodbyes, see you's, and keep in touche's. Realistically, I know that as I say goodbye to these friends, I'm not likely to see them again.

I and my colleagues have been told that our department is not being affected......yet. Our department's hours will be reviewed again in October, once the fall out from the lay offs has settled - I am, realistically, expecting the departments hours to be cut to somewhere where they used to be - which means that three out of the five of us will be up the road if the directors decide to take this option.

And as we are all contractors too, the future outcome seems even more certain.

New Employers

I and my colleagues now work for another contracting company, as a direct result of the new manager at my old firm attempting to change the rosters over. Again. This one man, acting because he (alone) couldn't understand the shift pattern we are working, attempted to ride roughshod over 5 men's lives - and his actions has lost his company the contract which was making thousands of pounds of profit every year.

It took just 2 weeks for the company I work at to serve notice on my old employers and get someone else in. So, now, we work for someone else.

Which has interrupted the payroll. My old company stopped over £200 out of my last wages as I had claimed excess holiday hours. The repossession order for the house which I had sorted out last month is now back on because I was late paying this month's instalment. I now get paid fortnightly instead of monthly as well, so I could only afford to pay two weeks mortgage instead of the month.

I should have caught back up with myself with the payments by making the second fortnightly payment this weekend, so it's perhaps not quite so bad. I have spoken to the mortgage company, who are not interested in the reasons why, they are only bothered with the fact that I've been late on the first arranged payment. So, hopefully, I will be able to stop the action again.

Keeping on keeping on. I just need to get rid of this total desperation, hopelessness and sadness that has surrounded me and my life. There's still more to tell, I'll update again in a day or so. Paul

Stabbings Must Stop

Can someone, somewhere, explain to me exactly what's going on in our streets? Are you, like me, a concerned parent, wondering what's happening to our childrens' world?

Almost daily now it seems, there's another stabbing. The local estate and criminal underworlds remain silent, the Police, under instructions from Europe and the equal rights campaigners are increasingly powerless to act. The stabbings become a routine, daily, normal event.

Almost as if, everytime there's another 'incident', the Police lose more powers to match. And since when did a muder become a simple 'incident'?

We need an urgent injection of common sense. The do gooders and others who are more determined to maintain the criminal's rights over the rights of the innocent and law abiding, need to take a back seat. We need to back our Police Officers with the powers they need to control crime.

We must break the street gangs before they start to take over our civilised world. We need to make our streets safer for our parents, our children and our pensioners.

The Human Rights Act must undoubtably play a large part in the dismantling of our civilised world. Britain is now controlled by Eurocrats in Brussells. We are not British any more, we're European.

But, in my eyes, the buck does stop – and start – with the parents. A child's self image is created by the time he's five and this self image, set in concrete in his subconscious, stays with the child for life. And he learns this self image from his parents and home life.

The parents who lead unconventional lives ruin their children's lives, their futures, their everything. The parents who refuse to work, living on state benefit, the parents who refuse to instill discipine, the parents who are openly criminal in front of their children, the parents without morals, or values of decency, without respect for authority,the parents who cannot be bothered to actually parent their children properly, instead sitting them down in front of the television for hours at a time, parents who actually make a point of letting their children know they don't matter and are an hinderance to them.

The 60's children – my generation - are now the parents. And what a mess some of them are making of it. We have children starting school, unwashed, unironed clothes, who cannot communicate with others, know every single swear word, and cannot even use a knife and fork.

Couple that up with European interference, lack of Police power and rights, political correctness instead of common sense, an over zealous Health and Safety culture, The Human Rights (Criminals Charter) Act, a huge influx of other nationalities with different morals, ethics, beliefs and behaviour, often similar to tribal warfare, a pathetic justice system, early release of prisioners, prisons that are more like 5 star hotels, all surrounded by a massive culture of disrespect – our future as a great country is frightening.

And all this – and more – starts the day the child's born. Standards start at home. We need all these weak, ineffective and downright criminal parents to start behaving themselves. These are the parents – the minority- who show the rest of us up.If a child's brought up properly – he will live properly. It's – naturally – built into his subconscious to do so.

The criminals are some of the parents – not the children. Parents make decent children. Or Criminals.