tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post5828837490705645738..comments2024-03-28T23:10:52.046+00:00Comments on On Probation Blog: We Were RightJim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00258147767051200157noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-47094082942839879712017-03-30T07:09:22.837+01:002017-03-30T07:09:22.837+01:00PM May - "But when I sit around the negotiati...PM May - "But when I sit around the negotiating table in the months ahead, I will represent every person in the United Kingdom"<br /><br />Err, no you won't. I've never voted Tory. I voted to remain in the EU. You weren't elected to the position of PM & I didn't want you in that role. And there are many more reasons you don't - or can't - represent me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-22550374556110972292017-03-30T06:50:17.027+01:002017-03-30T06:50:17.027+01:00Oh, and we can now add the failed merger of London...Oh, and we can now add the failed merger of London Stock Exchange & Deutsche Boerse, which means the tax payer once more picks up the tab for over £100m in fees despite the abject failure of professional 'dealmakers'.<br /><br />Where do people get these jobs where utter incompetence & total failure result in lottery jackpot payouts?<br /><br />I don't want to minimise the 1% payrise though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-35462118977415388912017-03-29T21:18:24.368+01:002017-03-29T21:18:24.368+01:00Bickers’s departure from the prison but said he wa...Bickers’s departure from the prison but said he was being appointed to a “more senior position” within HM Prison and Probation Service and congratulated him on his new role.<br />Wonder what that might be? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-51170170537772931422017-03-29T20:19:50.573+01:002017-03-29T20:19:50.573+01:00The lack of info on the new shitty dumped down fas...The lack of info on the new shitty dumped down fast psrs won't exactly instill confidence in the judiciary either I'd suspect. Hardly any info. They won't take the chance. When I think how many I persuaded when we wrote full comprehensive reports and all angles covered. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-23866990511610381642017-03-29T19:14:14.337+01:002017-03-29T19:14:14.337+01:00Sorry, my mistake.Sorry, my mistake.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-23836252652793847902017-03-29T18:59:24.764+01:002017-03-29T18:59:24.764+01:00What's wrong? They're giving us a 1% pay r...What's wrong? They're giving us a 1% pay rise aren't they? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-82017327091644562022017-03-29T18:23:56.043+01:002017-03-29T18:23:56.043+01:00We truly are a nation run by DelBoys, wannabe deal...We truly are a nation run by DelBoys, wannabe dealmakers & crooks subsidised by us, the fucking idiot taxpayer.<br /><br />TR is a shower of shit, a flawed omnishambles riddled with nepotism & incompetence. Its cost us £millions, hundreds of professional careers & peoples' lives.<br /><br />The nuclear industry is similarly useless with the NDA contract deemed invalid & UK taxpayer picking up the £100M penalties due to suppliers. Today Toshiba's subsidiary Westinghouse, the suppliers of the new untried reactors destined for Cumbria, have gone bust because of the costs of developing & installing the reactors in other projects. Response of the <br />UK Government? The UK taxpayer is to step in & ensure the ridiculously dangerous project goes ahead by providing taxpayer £Billions.<br /><br />Trains? HS2 suppliers have had to cancel a major contract because of alleged favouritism by the top table (surely not!?!) & guess who will pick up the tab for compensation & re-tendering...<br /><br />Finally this is a day when the UK government has, in my humble view, made one of the biggest mistakes in the country's history - and I reckon it will damn near bankrupt the UK. Boris, Farage, Cameron & the whole bally lot are pissing themselves laughing as their overseas piggy banks get fatter & fatter & fatter.<br /><br />Meanwhile back on Planet Probation, not a lot changes. The imminent Review will, with the blessing of Dame Glenys & the PI, give more public monies to the outsourcing pickpockets, blinkered bullies like Davis on the Justice Select Committee will continue to call probation "rubbish" and the very genial Bob will continue to chair the JSC & pocket his chairman's additional pay.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-62937385406881216162017-03-29T15:42:04.666+01:002017-03-29T15:42:04.666+01:00'We were right' and 'I told you so'...'We were right' and 'I told you so' are only meaningful to a mind that is open to rational evidence. But to a mind that puts ideology first, only 'evidence' that supports the former will be considered legitimate. From climate warming right down to TR, you can tell them I told you so until the cows come home, but they will not concede that you were right. The reality is that there are alternative facts and faiths, evidence and statistics will never win arguments with those who follow different agendas. Like benefit cuts rather than taxing the rich, TR reflects political choices, in pursuit of neo-liberal small state ideals that puts ends before means. Evidence is no match against those who are fundamentalist of whatever ilk.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-32544704941873132462017-03-29T15:16:25.590+01:002017-03-29T15:16:25.590+01:00It has already been explained to the inquest that ...It has already been explained to the inquest that he was released on his sentence expiry date, and as such was not subject to any probation supervision, nor could he be forced to have any engagement. <br />However, in a very similar case reported recently where 3 people were involved, probation were dragged over the coals by the coroner for failing to recall one of the three. <br />The reasons given by probation was that the person who could have been recalled had such a short period of his sentence left, that they would have been released on their sentence expiry date, not under any probation supervision, homeless and as such pose a far greater risk. <br />Damned if you do and damned if you don't. <br /><br />'Getafix Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-16735481603657918322017-03-29T14:55:24.455+01:002017-03-29T14:55:24.455+01:00An inquest jury has heard how a prison leaver from...An inquest jury has heard how a prison leaver from Caerphilly county "refused" to engage with the probation service and police when he left jail.<br /><br />Matthew Williams, who was 34, killed 22-year-old Cerys Yemm at the Sirhowy Arms Hotel in Argoed two years ago.<br /><br />He was tasered by police following the attack, and died shortly after.<br /><br />The incident happened two weeks after Mr Williams was released from prison. His mother has previously told the inquest that he was offered "no support".<br /><br />The inquest continues.Jim Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00258147767051200157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-56328911839893233262017-03-29T14:39:45.961+01:002017-03-29T14:39:45.961+01:00Argoed inquest: Ex-convict "refused" to ...Argoed inquest: Ex-convict "refused" to engage with probation service after jail<br /><br />http://www.itv.com/news/wales/update/2017-03-29/argoed-inquest-ex-convict-refused-to-engage-with-probation-service-after-jail/Andrew_S_Hattonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09115192522317353139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-61048255308083715502017-03-29T12:59:12.163+01:002017-03-29T12:59:12.163+01:00Ian Bickers has 20 years experience in the private...Ian Bickers has 20 years experience in the private sector, and was made governor of HMP Wandsworth in 2015. <br /><br />https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/mar/29/hmp-wandsworth-ian-bickers-governor-leaves-prisonersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-5845120522911987532017-03-29T12:49:13.605+01:002017-03-29T12:49:13.605+01:00"a witness told the Committee today that cour..."a witness told the Committee today that courts are imposing more short term prison sentences than pre-TR, thinking offenders will now get punishment plus help"<br /><br />I know for a fact that I predicted this very point in a comment on this site back in 2013 or 2014. All too easy to foresee.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com