Regarding UN Investigation into UK

 Here we go.

Question raised

and its reply , REGARDING S.O'Brien appointment to UN / UN Human Rights Abuse investigation. 

For clarity , I thought. 

 

To My Mp: 

 

Hi Gerald,

I hope you dont this this is abject tilting at you for failure of you - because it isnt.

As a tenant of social housing on benefits and all this welfare reform as abject distain for social protection, i'd like to draw you to this point:

The PM of this nation PRAISED Steven O'Brien MP as a good appointment to the UN.

S O'B known as extremely vociferous over EACH person responsible for self, hardly a socially based representative to government.

You and I both know there is an investigation the UN is *supposedly* doing on the human rights abuses enacted by this current govt. I wont expunge further thoughts on this as i feel govt implicitly they are in breach of social contract and there is a lot being hidden in plain sight by these incumbents? And many self steered self interest fulfilling changes of law are occurring to the detriment of the people of this country.

I am not assuming here, i know you feel this.

I want to know UN investigation, and whether o'Brien can Hamper, delay , and avoid blame to current incumbents for their distain and mistreatment of citizens they feel are below them and simply not worth looking after.

The key part of any government is to look after its citizens, isnt it? I see every day Voted in people serving their own interests.

Do I include you in that? NO. Because you always recognise my voice, reply, and try your utmost for your people in the constituency.

I would like you in any way you can to find out what the UN investigation is about the Abuse Of Human Rights that this govt are engaged in , and I express my concern that a Member Or The Crew Doing This is now suddenly appointed to UN.

Can you please clarify this for me?

Many Thanks

Jules

And My MP, interim said I shall certainly look into this. 

He Did. 

His letter Transcribed :

7th april

...Following my letter to you 10th March i did, as you know, follow the matter up. I now attach a letter received from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Yours etc...

And heres Transcription of FCO letter from Phillip Hammond to my MP . 

 

27thMarch 

Thank you for your letter of 10th March on behalf of your constiuent (Redacted) about the appointment of Mr Steven O'Brien to the UN .

Mr O'Brien has been appointed to replace Baroness Amos as the Under Secretary General For Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator with effect from MAY 2015. An Under Secretary General role at the UN is a key humanitarian role internationally and a vital position for the UK. It provides leadershipfor the uN, Red Cross, non-governmental organisations and governments during humanitarian crises. It also convenes humanitarian actors during "peace-time" to ensure the system is effective, prepared to respond, offers good value for money and has strong links to the development sector. 

The role is entirely separate from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights which monitors human rights throughout the world. The UK is a strong supporter of the work and independence of operation of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Special Procedures. They represent an impressive body of expertise on which states can draw to improve implimentation of their international human rights obligations. . They also provide an independent assessment  of states' human rights records and are an effective means of focusing international attention on violations of human rights. Maqintaining this independenceof operation is a UK priority, as is maintaining country focus for those states with the most egregious human rights records. The UN Special Procedures ( which tend to be in the form of Special Rspporteurs or working groups) are human rights experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council to focus on the most serious country human rights situations or specific thematic human rights issues. 

(Redacted) mentions a UN investigation. The UK has a standing invitation to UN Special Procedures, several of whom have visited the UK in recent years. It may be he his referring to one of their reports. The appointment of Mr O'Brien will not compromise the independence of the Office of the High Commission for Human Rights in any way. -The RT HON PHILLIP HAMMOND MP

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Notes: 

There was disdain shown at Special Rapporteur for Housing

The Tory Manifesto proposes removing Human Rights Act in UK, negating all importance that the respondent incumbent sent to my MP .

Now can you see the duplicity? I can.

Also , again, the well mooted/thought about/ known about UN investigation into human rights abuse in UK was brushed aside as "possibly one of their reports"

Regarding MH c/w physical illness - long term and the Treatments path

Lunacy of the Tory Compulsory Treatment Ruminations:

Regarding Compulsory Illness Treatment proposals Tories have lain on the table...

When I see my consultant later we will discuss MH associated with Long term illness thats quite regular chat.

 Informal as part of illness management.

So without it being recognised as a thing in its own dept/ treatment etc, but part and parcel of my long term understanding of me as a patient, with consultant willing to be manager of concern/ mh as well as phys, I severely wouldnt want that valid thing changed by Govt intervention and Compulsory treatment WHATEVER that may entail.

Its abhorrent proposal the tories have made.

Why? (complex. read between the lines)

Remembers the fact im two generations from the fight against fascism where LUCKILY both my granddads survived it . Remembers one of those grandads saying NO BASTARD should ever be in power. That was a strong belief he had. Since then my family fractured. My father was a cunt, even though he went military and was labour, he was a nasty man. But if i think of all the stuff thats happened , most of the bad stuff was because TORY DRIVES on a NON SOCIAL model . In this short diatribe you wont see all of whats happened to me. But when I wanted to firm my beliefs by reading of atrocities, my father beat the shit out of me for even having the books. It was a messed up time where people were learning how they should be. Unfortunately many empirical acceptances remained. And confusion reigned. Not least by the interjections of a thatcher regime. They say people arent having cards marked by the past. They are. Theres either acceptance "thats just the way it is" or "NO THIS COULD BE FAR DIFFERENT AND BETTER"
I want the latter. The evidence in THIS government of cloaked elitist fascism is there IF YOU LOOK. Thats why Im voting Labour .

People Funding their own Powerchairs. Heres one...

 So a MILLION sign a petition to save Clarkesons's job when he full on smacks someone in the face and issues unacceptable insult. 

And this HONEST person Evander (one of middle names used) [ Richard] struggles for months to get past half way on an essential enabler for them? This strikes my Social Justice Nerve, I've spared what I could to help and am now asking others to do the same. READ the story written by themselves. Very Modest. Yet LOOK at the involvement and the drive they have . I ask you to read. And to help If you can. Theres no min or max amount. And everything will help. 

Without the chair they wont complete their studies, or be able to keep up their contribution. Thats not all of it. They WONT have independence. Please read. And help if you can.

  DONATE HERE PLEASE IF YOU CAN > http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/help-a-lupus-warrior-fund-motorized-wheelchair/250477

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I'm going back to university next year to pursue my Masters in biomedical science, and for this I will need a motorized wheelchair, otherwise I will not be able to get around on my own. My twin, who is my main carer, is also pursuing higher education at the same time and won't be there every day to push my chair.

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Sue Jones (blogger) isnt getting any better...

Sue Jones who many know from her well researched and educated base writes commentary with truth and passion, shes increasingly writing when she can, and often cant stand the pain in fingers. Its a deteriorating condition. I dont know exact on it.
But please. Understand theres many well educated passionate people who still maintain their belief in people before profit even though unwell. And many times the mainstream just goes "theyll be gone soon" (i feel thats what they think, very often)

Heres latest from Sue.

If those who advocate a no vote or a spoiled ballot paper heard the archive interviews with women from the imprisoned suffrage campaign hunger strikers describing how they were pinned down and force-fed, with nasal tubes brutally forced all the way down into their stomachs, perhaps they would feel shame enough to change their mind. Or perhaps they ought to read about the Peterloo Massacre. They suffered so that we may have the right to vote. Use it.
King Henry VI of England established in 1432 that only male owners of property worth at least forty shillings, a significant sum, were entitled to vote in a county. Changes were made to the details of the system, but there was no major reform until the Reform Act 1832. It was not until 1918 that all men over 21, and wealthy women won the right to vote, and it was not until 1928 that all women over 21 won the right to vote. Suffrage in the United Kingdom was slowly changed over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries through the use of the Reform Acts and the Representation of the People Acts, culminating in universal suffrage, excluding children and convicted prisoners.
It wasn't until the Representation of the People Act 1928 that women's voting rights were made equal with men, with voting possible at 21 with no property restrictions. Universal suffrage is the result of the growth of the Labour movement coupled with the growth of unionism. Between 1888 and 1918 trade unions grew at a faster rate than at any other time in their history. Membership figure stood at roughly 750,000 at the beginning of the period, rising to six and a half million in 1918. Inspired by the successes of the women match workers' strike at the Bryant and May factory in 1888 and subsequently by the Gasworkers' and Dockers' strikes of 1889, trade unionism among unskilled, semi-skilled, white collar and professional workers spread rapidly. Led by socialists like John Burns and Tom Mann (with Eleanor Marx as secretary to the strike committee), the dockers' struggle captured the public imagination.
Women’s suffrage was a secondary issue, initially within the Labour Party, partly because the priority was universal suffrage, and suffragettes were campaigning for the ‘equal franchise’ (the vote on the same basis as men) rather than the ‘universal franchise’ . It has to be said that many working class men who were not socialists took a dim view of women organising. Prominent Labour Party members who supported votes for women were George Lansbury, Philip Snowden and Keir Hardie. By 1912, women's suffrage had become official Labour pParty policy, so long as the vote was extended to all men at the same time.
The right to vote was fought for and hard-won. Use it to vote for the party that has always championed citizen's rights, social justice and inclusion. Labour.
This is the most important GE of our lifetime, people are suffering and dying because of tory policies. Nothing matters more than getting the tories out. Now is not the time to be idealising about marxist orthodox purism. That's not "socialism" : it's simply self indulgence.
The only certain way to save our post-war democratic settlement (NHS, welfare state ect.) and people's lives is a Labour vote.

Too many Sites want Latest Flash Player... etc

Okay where do i start with this.

Do you see this far too much? >

(or similar)



Flash. A player that has universal appeal. Unless you dig deeper.

Flash doesnt work on many mobile devices.

On PUTERS: Many people are still running legacy operating systems on older kit because the KIT they have is capable of operating.

Too much obsolescence and preferential access exists.

Now.

Theres ways to view content without flash. But if you dont make that available, by frontispiece of looking at the kit / browser and saying flash you have or dont have isnt good enough - you are selecting a priviledged audience.

Flash isnt the only way to show stuff.


I know that theres an aggressive progression in kit sales/ os/ access/ etc.

Weve arrived at a time where I personally think the old model of only the new stuff is valid should be killed.

For the last few years IVE had to run older kit , as There Are Tough Choices... (its even a certain political party rhetoric, although for other reasons)

Society is enhanced, and people are enabled by access to web and sites.

So why when people struggling with NOT THE LATEST kit - THEY HAVE KIT- cant experience what others with MORE money can, then I personally think thats arrogant for an industry thats fastly becoming an essential in even the poorest peoples lives.

To ignore legacy kit older systems, and even not provide mobile android access which is growing rapidly as an access route, is wrong.

Now who will take this vision up? Im often proven right ahead of stuff when i write and a year or so, or months, whenever, it comes out later as SOMEONE ELSES idea and i'm ignored.

This is a real situation. People need to listen.

If only because it affects this writer, and a lot of people i speak to. 

Maximus work On this Scheme, in Australia.

Worth watching. Maximus has about 10% of its work in Australia.

Now. Maximus are starting the WCA delivery in UK March 2015 

Why are Southern Journos rumbling around Horden Looking Stunned?

Channel Four News has a report about Horden, Co. Durham a former mining village on the North East Coast. Heres the truth about the area from Amanda... who is actually from that area. Did they produce such truth as this in their reports? 

This reflects on Housing, Local Economy, Blame style rhetoric, and destruction of an area with no replacement. Virtually ignored by central govt and media. Only now the housing issue of a pound a house has reared, are the media really attempting something. 

Amand writes: 

I'm originally from Peterlee, a New Town that was built alongside Horden (at the cost of Horden, according to many older residents) a place that has also suffered since the 80s. The closure of the pits probably seems like ancient history to younger people but here, and places like here, the effects still rumble on. Like a domino rally you knock one piece down and through the generations the pieces just keep falling. 

The mines were the heart of the communities, the money the men earned at the pit kept the local grocery shops afloat, bakers, pubs, family run DIY shops. Now we have takeaways, betting shops and not much more. The local economy was built on coal, you can't replace that with heroin and still have a proud, bustling, close community.

Some of my family worked at Easington Colliery, my Father In Law was an auto-bagger (coal man - to you southerners) for the NCB. My Dad, older brother and some other uncles worked at Horden pit. When I was a baby and my Dad just 29 he was severely injured in a mining collapse, the pit roof caved in and his legs were crushed by a pit prop. He spent the first few years of my life on crutches and was left permanently disabled. These men were grafters. Hard back-breaking, dangerous work yet according to Tories, the media, these very same areas are supposed to be full of lazy inter generational benefits 'scroungers.' How did communities of people who worked harder than these pampered people could ever imagine turn overnight into lazy sods, happy to sit back for the princely sum of £57 a week?

Well they didn't.

Homes in Horden and the rest of Easington District sit empty while 11,000 people languish on waiting lists to be housed. London journos scratch their heads and wonder why. London politicians talk about our bad attitudes to 'hard work'. Iain Duncan Smith tells us 'work will set us free'. How do you reliably pay your rent on a zero hour contact, Mr Smith?  How do you pay £14 a week bedroom tax out of £57 a week? When our Shipyards at Hartlepool closed down they weren't replaced with anything. When our pits were closed they weren't replaced with anything. But it doesn't end there, it was never going to. 

The money the men earned kept the local small businesses afloat, when that money went so did everything else. New Labour thought the problem could be solved by opening loads of call centres (our accents are 'friendly' and 'trustworthy' according to customer research) but they were never going to last when it's cheaper to base them abroad. 

The housing problems in Horden and the surrounding areas are a direct result of the lack of jobs. The lack of decent jobs are a direct result of losing all of our industries. Successive governments have done nothing to replace them but they still blame us. Men who'd spent their lives underground, men with hands like shovels were sent on Job Centre mandated training courses, typing, answering phones and middle class southerners couldn't understand why it dented their pride 

I don't have the answers to all these problems, but I don't get paid 65K a year plus expenses TO have the answers, do I?  But I do know this, you don't rip the heart out of places, you don't take away the jobs that the entire area relied on, replace it with NOTHING then call us lazy. You don't insult the people who did the most dangerous, exhausting jobs and call them scroungers. You don't say people who risked their lives every damn day just have a bad work ethic.


Infrastructure note: I asked Amanda about infrastructure. She answered:  Peterlee (pop 30,000) Peterlee & Horden are joined together & Horden has railway running through it but no station. Easy commuting distance to Durham, Sunderland, Newcastle, Darlington, Middlesbrough etc IF we had station.

Tanni Grey Thompsons Phone Issue - My thoughts.

You buy a phone on a contract with a provider?

Sounds simple?

That should mean your contract is with the provider. Regardless of OS on the phone, any server provision etc.

The Sale Of Goods 1893 comes under Misrepresentation Act 1967 says goods sold must be fit for purpose.

If your contract is let down by the ancilliary parts that fall under the umbrella of main contract... if failure is evident and unresolvable  by your reasonable efforts to follow instructions to remedy, then at the point you feel unreasonable duress lies on you, then that is a failure of your contract.

The issue then becomes do provider instruct the sub providerto resolve or instruct you to approach. They can do latter, but that depends on whether you feel implied frustration or distress from your reasonable presentation of the issue at hand.

If you do, you should insist that the holder of agreement with you namely the contract solves the issue within a reasonable time.

If this isnt forthcoming you can summarily terminate said contract for blamed reasons. Including any felt/implied /unwritten arrivals you get at in thought.

This written without predjudice, obviously.

The case Im thinking of involves a record holding paralympian and Member Of The House of Lords, Tanni Grey Thompson.

O2 politly referred to Blackberry, and the wall Blackberry threw was insurmountable for Tanni.
So in good faith Tanni held the contract, and tried to resolve on deemed reasonable instruction.
On enacting the instruction it became unreasonable in practice. And there lies the reversion back to provider for resolution.

I'd hope that O2 can solve this problem within a reasonable time, which in my opinion reasonable time has expired, due to customer Contact/ instruction to customer/ customer action /solution barrier which lays reasonable time as imposible if resting with the customer to solve.

The liability under my premise laid out is for O2 to replace phone and solve issue within lets say about 48hrs, which under the circs would be a reasonable aquiescence by the customer.

Without any predjudice. My thoughts rest here.




Obviously a 48 yr old act will have later, subsequent amendments notably in 79 and 82.
And theres other more specific references Helen (@complainingcow ) has highlighted many times on twitter)

Not Suitable for Work ( the post i mean)

Glossary of Terms

Relating to Pain

Gut pains Light: YOU BUGGER
Gut pains Intense: YOU CUNT
Gut pains Intense + : *say anything you fucking like*

Repeat for Shoulder, knee, back, ankle, foot The list isnt conclusive. and can be adapted for almost universal use.

Relating to  Painkillers

They shall be known as Paindullers by longterm users.

When waiting for The Time to take ...
If theres:
Ache: Hurry up
Stabby: FFS aaarg
Excruciating: Fuck it Fuck it Fuck it

Where Eamon asks a relevant question about sentencing in UK F v M

According to Wikipedia, the UK prison population in 2014 is 81,905 men and 3,956 women (I have not checked the source of their statistics, but that sounds about right. The number of men in prison has increased massively over the last thirty years since I studied criminology, but the number of women in prison appears to be roughly the same order).

 

To answer the question whether too many wome go to jail, there are two issues:

 

1) Are women treated differently to men for the same offences and

2) Are custodial sentances in general used too frequently.

 

In terms of the first of these questions, one has to compare like for like crimes and those depend on the severity of the crimes.

 

To take an extreme example, if someone commits murder, there is a 95% chance that they will be caught, prosecuted, convicted and sentanced to the mandatory sentance of life in prison irrespective of their gender.

 

I have not studied the criminology research, but certainly there are more men in jail because they are much more likely to commit violent crimes and crimes against property. I believe most women are jailed because they are recidivists or repeat offenders of minor theft, fraud and drugs offences.

 

To find a comparitive offence, one must look at low value fraud or theft.

 

To decide whether woman are treated equally to men, the questions are:

 

1) Are they more or less likely to be caught and prosecuted: I do not know if the police are more likely to caution women or whether the CPS are less likely to prosecute women for a crime compared to men commiting an equivalent crime.

 

2) If they are prosecuted, are they more likely to be convicted (Alexandra suggests that they are and suggests that this is possibly because judges feel that women 'should know better' and because judges are mostly men) The judges I know are women, but they might actually be harder on women for similar reasons. However the proportion of women convicted could also be due to the CPS only prosecuting offences against women where they are certain of the result because the risk of a woman reoffending after only a caution is less.

 

3) If they are found guilty, are they more likely to be given a custodial sentance: again, I have not looked at the research which must have been done, but in sentancing judges take into account the stability of the offender's life, the amount of support a person have and the effect on their family life and on their family - particularly if they are a primary carer. Hence, most of the women who are sent to jail are not there because they have carried out violent crimes, but because they are repeat offenders (and often if they are guilty of minor thefts, this is usually because of drug problems).

 

Obviously, there is likely to be acasemic research on all of these questions and I would not like to take a view one way or another without looking at it.

 

The second question of whether too many people are sent to jail, I would argue that the answer is yes. All of the political parties in an effort to appear tough on crime have criminalised more behavour, put pressure on judges to give more severe sentances and brought in minimum sentances for some offences. The increase in the number of people in prison is a scandal. The number of people who are aging and kept in jail, have drug problems, have mental health problems and are former members of the armed forces not given adequate support all provide reasons for concern.

 

The issue of mental health problems and issues with drugs covers most of the women in prison; these would have much better out comes if given treatment and support rather than incarceration.

 

Finally the idea that people should be jailed for non-payment of licence fees is absurd. The licence fee is collected for a non-state body even though it's collection has statutory force. (I believe non-payment does not even count as a criminal offence.)

 

 

-----Eamon emailed the blog and got included. Because its a very relevant subject