Is it me, or do the Christmas is being banned stories keep getting earlier?
It usually at least takes until November before the tabloids start printing their annual lies and distortions about how Christmas is being banned thanks to politically correct councils, killjoys with nothing better to do than moan and health and safety fascists. The Daily Mail then has to be congratulated on being first out of the blocks this year, only two months and twelve days before the actual event:
And so forth. You know the drill. Massive costs, compensation culture, elf 'n' safety rules, it's all here.
Know how that says "many" local authorities? The Mail article provides 3 examples, one from Clevedon, another from Sandwell and finally from Bodmin. Only the Bodmin case is backed up by a statement from a council spokesman. The other two quotes are from the Federation of Small Businesses, which laughably suggests that "Christmas lights excite consumers", and from the Association of British Insurers, neither of which set out any evidence that this going to be replicated across the country, even if the examples are accurate, which, going by past related articles, seems unlikely.
Let me, if I may be so bold, make a prediction. Your local town/city will still have the same familiar, gaudy, depressing, garish lights put up in the first week of November by the same familiar burly men. They will look exactly the same as last year's, except slightly less bright. No one will take any great notice of them. Half the time they won't be turned on. The council will have spent an inordinate amount of money putting them up and buying Christmas trees that would be put to better use elsewhere. Repeat until we're all dead.
Health and safety killjoys are threatening Britain with a Christmas blackout, council bosses warned yesterday.
And so forth. You know the drill. Massive costs, compensation culture, elf 'n' safety rules, it's all here.
Know how that says "many" local authorities? The Mail article provides 3 examples, one from Clevedon, another from Sandwell and finally from Bodmin. Only the Bodmin case is backed up by a statement from a council spokesman. The other two quotes are from the Federation of Small Businesses, which laughably suggests that "Christmas lights excite consumers", and from the Association of British Insurers, neither of which set out any evidence that this going to be replicated across the country, even if the examples are accurate, which, going by past related articles, seems unlikely.
Let me, if I may be so bold, make a prediction. Your local town/city will still have the same familiar, gaudy, depressing, garish lights put up in the first week of November by the same familiar burly men. They will look exactly the same as last year's, except slightly less bright. No one will take any great notice of them. Half the time they won't be turned on. The council will have spent an inordinate amount of money putting them up and buying Christmas trees that would be put to better use elsewhere. Repeat until we're all dead.
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Yes and aren't Conservative leaders getting younger?
I think it was Bart Simpson who said, damned if you do, dmned if you don't....so the DM's stance doesn't surprise coming a couple of weeks after its Leighton Buzzard story.
http://ericthefishking.blogspot.com/2007/10/wonderful-christmastime.html
(shameless plug)
I liked the comment in the new story about it chipping away at Christianity. Yeh, try finding Santa in the New Testament!
Posted by
eric the fish |
Sunday, October 14, 2007 2:29:00 PM
Oh not this bollocks again.
Is it me or are rightwingers just soooo fucking boring?
Posted by
tyger |
Monday, October 15, 2007 10:36:00 AM
Crippling insurance costs and absurd safety requirements...
Ah yes, good old objective journalism. I had to check this was a news item (and not comment).
I should have known better.
Posted by
tyger |
Monday, October 15, 2007 10:40:00 AM