7 Spey Terrace
Edinburgh
EH7 4PX
Telephone: 0131-550 0895
E-mail: JohnEDouglas@gmail.com
Blog: http://johneoindouglas.blogspot.com/
30th of March 2010
Dear Sir/Madam,
GARDENING WOES
As a keen gardener, I am most annoyed that the Government intends to ban the plant food Mephedrone because a handful of people are claimed to have suffered ill health or death after misusing it as a drug of intoxication.
Will I become a criminal if I stock up on it before the ban? Or will my azaleas have to suffer because of a Nanny State attitude towards the lack of self control of a few selfish drug-taking individuals who will stop at nothing to alter their state of consciousness?
Sincerely,
John Eoin Douglas
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
11th of March 2010 - Don't Risk Losing Civil Servants
7 Spey Terrace
Edinburgh
EH7 4PX
Telephone: 0131-550 0895
E-mail: JohnEDouglas@gmail.com
Blog: http://johneoindouglas.blogspot.com/
11th of March 2010
Dear Sir/Madam,
DON'T RISK LOSING CIVIL SERVANTS
The Government was absolutely right to allow the payment of large bonuses to bankers at our state owned banks in order to dissuade them from resigning and taking up better remunerated employment in foreign climes.
Why is the Prime Minister now risking a similar exodus of our senior civil servants by imposing a freeze on their pay at a time when we most need their experience and wise counsel?
Sincerely,
John Eoin Douglas
Edinburgh
EH7 4PX
Telephone: 0131-550 0895
E-mail: JohnEDouglas@gmail.com
Blog: http://johneoindouglas.blogspot.com/
11th of March 2010
Dear Sir/Madam,
DON'T RISK LOSING CIVIL SERVANTS
The Government was absolutely right to allow the payment of large bonuses to bankers at our state owned banks in order to dissuade them from resigning and taking up better remunerated employment in foreign climes.
Why is the Prime Minister now risking a similar exodus of our senior civil servants by imposing a freeze on their pay at a time when we most need their experience and wise counsel?
Sincerely,
John Eoin Douglas
Monday, March 1, 2010
1st of March 2010 - Trish Shouldn't Trash Prostitution
7 Spey Terrace
Edinburgh
EH7 4PX
Telephone: 0131-550 0895
E-mail: JohnEDouglas@gmail.com
Blog: http://johneoindouglas.blogspot.com/
1st of March 2010
Dear Sir/Madam,
TRISH SHOULDN'T TRASH PROSTITUTION
It is apalling that Labour MSP Trish Godman has tabled a string of amendments to the Criminal Justice and Licensing Bill currently going through the Scottish Parliament to make it an offence to engage in, advertise or facilitate paid-for sexual activity.
I can assure her that many decent, intelligent and well educated people of my acquaintance consider that a well paid career as a sex worker is infinitely preferable to the tedium of cleaning lavatories, flipping hamburgers or, worse, exposing oneself to public derision as an expenses-claiming know-it-all politician.
On the other hand, if her proposals do become law, I suppose that many of her parliamentary colleagues will expect to get for nothing that for which they currently pay.
Sincerely,
John Eoin Douglas
Edinburgh
EH7 4PX
Telephone: 0131-550 0895
E-mail: JohnEDouglas@gmail.com
Blog: http://johneoindouglas.blogspot.com/
1st of March 2010
Dear Sir/Madam,
TRISH SHOULDN'T TRASH PROSTITUTION
It is apalling that Labour MSP Trish Godman has tabled a string of amendments to the Criminal Justice and Licensing Bill currently going through the Scottish Parliament to make it an offence to engage in, advertise or facilitate paid-for sexual activity.
I can assure her that many decent, intelligent and well educated people of my acquaintance consider that a well paid career as a sex worker is infinitely preferable to the tedium of cleaning lavatories, flipping hamburgers or, worse, exposing oneself to public derision as an expenses-claiming know-it-all politician.
On the other hand, if her proposals do become law, I suppose that many of her parliamentary colleagues will expect to get for nothing that for which they currently pay.
Sincerely,
John Eoin Douglas
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
23rd of February 2010 - Unfair To Atheists
7 Spey Terrace
Edinburgh
EH7 4PX
Telephone: 0131-550 0895
E-mail: JohnEDouglas@gmail.com
Blog: http://johneoindouglas.blogspot.com/
23rd of February 2010
Dear Sir/Madam,
UNFAIR TO ATHEISTS
Once again the government is to give special treatment to organised religions by allowing faith schools in England to tailor their sex education lessons to their own beliefs.
Why should atheist parents who wish their children to be taught that homosexuality is an abominable life choice be forced to send their children to faith schools with the real risk that they have their minds polluted by some of the more undesireable teachings of these faiths?
Sincerely,
John Eoin Douglas
Edinburgh
EH7 4PX
Telephone: 0131-550 0895
E-mail: JohnEDouglas@gmail.com
Blog: http://johneoindouglas.blogspot.com/
23rd of February 2010
Dear Sir/Madam,
UNFAIR TO ATHEISTS
Once again the government is to give special treatment to organised religions by allowing faith schools in England to tailor their sex education lessons to their own beliefs.
Why should atheist parents who wish their children to be taught that homosexuality is an abominable life choice be forced to send their children to faith schools with the real risk that they have their minds polluted by some of the more undesireable teachings of these faiths?
Sincerely,
John Eoin Douglas
Friday, February 12, 2010
12th of February 2010 - The Real Cost Of Roaming
7 Spey Terrace
Edinburgh
EH7 4PX
Telephone: 0131-550 0895
E-mail: JohnEDouglas@gmail.com
Blog: http://johneoindouglas.blogspot.com/
12th of February 2010
Dear Sir/Madam,
THE REAL COST OF ROAMING
The Ministry of Defence is to be applauded for embarking on the first steps to privatisation of RAF and Navy rescue services.
For far too long, people (most of them city dwellers) have been straying off our extensive network of paved roads in order to experience what they perceive to be the thrills of the countryside. Unfortunately, taxpayers are then expected, through the military budget, to pay for the inevitable rescues when they fall over a cliff, get stuck up a mountain or stub their big toe.
It is high time that these selfish individuals should have to pay for the full cost of their recovery and this privatisation means that day becomes ever closer.
Sincerely,
John Eoin Douglas
Edinburgh
EH7 4PX
Telephone: 0131-550 0895
E-mail: JohnEDouglas@gmail.com
Blog: http://johneoindouglas.blogspot.com/
12th of February 2010
Dear Sir/Madam,
THE REAL COST OF ROAMING
The Ministry of Defence is to be applauded for embarking on the first steps to privatisation of RAF and Navy rescue services.
For far too long, people (most of them city dwellers) have been straying off our extensive network of paved roads in order to experience what they perceive to be the thrills of the countryside. Unfortunately, taxpayers are then expected, through the military budget, to pay for the inevitable rescues when they fall over a cliff, get stuck up a mountain or stub their big toe.
It is high time that these selfish individuals should have to pay for the full cost of their recovery and this privatisation means that day becomes ever closer.
Sincerely,
John Eoin Douglas
Monday, February 1, 2010
1st of February 2010 - Use Our Forces For Good
7 Spey Terrace
Edinburgh
EH7 4PX
Telephone: 0131-550 0895
E-mail: JohnEDouglas@gmail.com
Blog: http://johneoindouglas.blogspot.com/
1st of February 2010
Dear Sir/Madam,
USE OUR FORCES FOR GOOD
The UK is currently squandering unaffordable billions waging war in countries in which we have no business being merely in order to curry favour with the USA. Yet our government seems to be totally unwilling to use the armed forces to further the legitimate interests of its own citizens.
If it is possible for the kidnapped British yacht couple, Paul and Rachel Chandler, to be visited by a doctor and a press photographer, it is surely not beyond the powers of our Special Forces to rescue them from their Somali captors.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband should hang his head in shame at his department's failure to free the Chandlers. He certainly cannot be seen as any sort of credible successor to Gordon Brown until such time as they are at liberty.
Sincerely,
John Eoin Douglas
Edinburgh
EH7 4PX
Telephone: 0131-550 0895
E-mail: JohnEDouglas@gmail.com
Blog: http://johneoindouglas.blogspot.com/
1st of February 2010
Dear Sir/Madam,
USE OUR FORCES FOR GOOD
The UK is currently squandering unaffordable billions waging war in countries in which we have no business being merely in order to curry favour with the USA. Yet our government seems to be totally unwilling to use the armed forces to further the legitimate interests of its own citizens.
If it is possible for the kidnapped British yacht couple, Paul and Rachel Chandler, to be visited by a doctor and a press photographer, it is surely not beyond the powers of our Special Forces to rescue them from their Somali captors.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband should hang his head in shame at his department's failure to free the Chandlers. He certainly cannot be seen as any sort of credible successor to Gordon Brown until such time as they are at liberty.
Sincerely,
John Eoin Douglas
Friday, January 22, 2010
22nd of January 2010 - Whipping Boys
7 Spey Terrace
Edinburgh
EH7 4PX
Telephone: 0131-550 0895
E-mail: JohnEDouglas@gmail.com
Blog: http://johneoindouglas.blogspot.com/
22nd of January 2010
Dear Sir/Madam,
WHIPPING BOYS
I have been disgusted at the vindictive and vengeful public outcry following the sentencing of the two young brothers from Edlington to a minimum of five years for grievous bodily harm against two children of similar age. In our modern liberal and caring society, capital punishment or "feeding them to the paedophiles" is surely not an option.
These young people are victims of the failures of others and need caring support rather than a good whipping.
As Mary Bell (who murdered Martin Brown and Brian Howe) and Robert Thompson and Jon Venables (murderers of Thomas Bulger) have shown, it is possible for "toxic" youngsters to turn out as responsible and valuable members of society, leading a normal and productive life as well as being able to raise their own children in happier circumstances.
We should condemn a little less and care a little more.
Sincerely,
John Eoin Douglas
Edinburgh
EH7 4PX
Telephone: 0131-550 0895
E-mail: JohnEDouglas@gmail.com
Blog: http://johneoindouglas.blogspot.com/
22nd of January 2010
Dear Sir/Madam,
WHIPPING BOYS
I have been disgusted at the vindictive and vengeful public outcry following the sentencing of the two young brothers from Edlington to a minimum of five years for grievous bodily harm against two children of similar age. In our modern liberal and caring society, capital punishment or "feeding them to the paedophiles" is surely not an option.
These young people are victims of the failures of others and need caring support rather than a good whipping.
As Mary Bell (who murdered Martin Brown and Brian Howe) and Robert Thompson and Jon Venables (murderers of Thomas Bulger) have shown, it is possible for "toxic" youngsters to turn out as responsible and valuable members of society, leading a normal and productive life as well as being able to raise their own children in happier circumstances.
We should condemn a little less and care a little more.
Sincerely,
John Eoin Douglas
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