MRS MOAN AND THE GOVERNMENT CARS

In the utter chaos that is the UK government, no one knows who uses cars, or how much it all costs. In the meantime, people having heart attacks in the job centre are sanctioned for missing appointments...to save money. Well, we must prioritise, right?

Tasteful as ever, and looking the very model of a government minister, Here Serene Highness the Lady Moan of Mayfair, sends for cars as and when it pleases her. As my granny would say: When dirt rises, it flees (nah, me neither).

And then the laugh is that, when she gets a bit of stick for her use of government cars, she uses their spin doctors to "support" her.  Queen Moan: Another one of David Cameron's brilliant ideas.
(As an aside, the Daily Mail is a corker. They must have a competition to see how many bras or cleavages they can get on the side column every day, and all the time sneering at The Sun for being down market.)

THE JOYS OF ISLAND LIFE...

There’s a really funny story in the paper copy of today’s 'Press and Journal' concerning a school on the Shetland island of Papa Stour which is to reopen after 5 years to accommodate a family coming from England to live on one of the crofts.

Shetland Council agreed to appoint a teacher, a relief teacher, and a part time clerical assistant for the tiny school which serves the island with a population of just 12, after a request from the local councillor requested it. The English family’s coming was dependent upon there being educational facilities available for their two children. He said that a price could not be put on the rebirth of a community on the edge of extinction. (There is only one remaining native “Stourian” left on the island.)

In fact the law requires that adequate provision be made for education, so the authorities were advised that there was no alternative to re-opening the school.

It was closed in 2005 after Jane Walker, the mother of the only children in it, withdrew her two offspring after a “difference of opinion” with the teacher. It seems that this teacher Simon Calvin had given a statement to the police after her (Mrs Walker’s) husband had emptied a bucket of dog dirt over the head of a local minister. Mr Walker was subsequently fined £600 at Lerwick Sheriff Court after pleading guilty to assault on the Rev Adrian Glover.

The story does not relate what the poor minister had done to deserve such treatment, what happened to the poor teacher who was left with 100% withdrawal of his pupils, or if the Walkers remained on the island after such reprehensible behaviour.

And you probably thought that life on a tiny island was hard but idyllic.

Huh!

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