Kaschke (v Der Spiegel) v the UK

As the case with number HQ08X00921 has been thrown out of the UK courts it has now been listed with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

Just had sight of the all important acknowledgement letter that the “completed” application form has been received and is getting due attention. Phew I am pleased that I was able to fill out the application form to an acceptable standard as the vast majority of cases is thrown out for lack of a properly completed application form. The case reference is 33844/09. I shall refrain from making any further comments about the case but you can follow its progress on the website of the European Court of Human Rights website. At this stage all proceedings are on paper.

But to tell you that much the application is not just on the Rule 6, Right to a Fair Trial but also contains several other complaints.

Postals workers digging their own graves

This ongoing postal strike has to be a grave concern to all dependant on the postal service. Worst of all, those workers who are made to believe that striking will improve their position are badly advised as the current strike is making the case against the Royal Mail Monopoly on mail deliveries and I would argue they should lose that monopoly, as they already have in respect of parcel deliveries, which are often done by courier companies.

I have had 3 letters during last week and with the ongoing court cases will be unable to get court papers on time. How does the court apply the rule of delivery on the 2nd day of posting here?

Any democratic and free society needs a functioning mail service and it shows to me that postal workers unions are not on the side of freedom if they stall mail deliveries. It’s always been a sign of dictatorships halting mail services as to stop the flow of free communications and that is what in effect the postal workers are doing st the moment.

Interestingly I have not received my latest invoices from some company and not been able to connect to online billing, so I am being billed for something I cannot even have a say about, very concerning.

No Family? No, No, No!!!

This Labour government excels from one extreme to another, more blanket solutions, which are in my view in breach of the Human Rights Act and discriminate against members of families.

Of course we all know the principle that the best qualified person should get a job that has to be properly advertised and if that best qualified person happens to be a family member of the person advertising the job then it would be discrimination to not allow an appointment on the basis of the family connection. This of course also applied to the current MP employing family members scandal.

On the other hand I am vehemently against the employment, engagement, use of family members “because” they are family members.

Halloween

Happy Halloween to all my readers, though I have not been writing much lately. Well, I do not want to write about things just to regurgitate things that have been written about so many times that spider webs are starting to settle on it.

Just a great seasonal remark, the bit about the spider webs. I have thoguht what does really frighten people at Halloween and can think of hardly anything that has not been made our trusted friends around that time. We all know the Frankensteins, the wtches, the Draculas and no one really even shivers any longer when we see one of those carefully manufactured in China or Hong Kong. Not even the white mummies (look very good on camera in darkened rooms) with ketchup (hm. hm blood) splattered all over turn heads.

I thought I do something seasonal and unusual, not bought in the shops and created a reaction.

People called my look “that is really frightening” (good as this is what a Halloween costume is supposed to be all about).

My costume gave people the creeps and turned heads and I was happy about that. I was a mixture of Wicked Witch of Suffolk and walking dead Sea weed monster or Flying dutch (wo)man.

Those dark and musky colours are not very photogenic but create a shivering effect by those looking on and what cannot be captured on camera is the musky smell of the blood red seaweed hanging on the wearer. Too bad for you?

My costume included modern touches like sparkling green long fingernails and metallic eye mask to hint a transformation of sea monster to modern, high tech witch.  I actually won first prize in the female over 18 catergory with this.

The big sell-off

Gordon Brown’s latest initiative to raise funds for the governmental coffers reminds me of my own urges to put all disposable household and collectors items on eBay when my household budget required it.

I am surprised Mr Brown did not use eBay to attract the highest bidder for his money spinning ideas, as trivial as they are.

Sale items include Tote, The Dartford Crossing and The Student Loan Book as the BBC reports.

I always regretted selling off treasured items during financial lows and always thought if I had only not spent money on this that and the other that wasn’t really necessary at the time.