Comments on: Please?

By: Cleanthes

Cleanthes — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:35:48 +0000

“If we live in a law-bound society, we have to follow the law. The law so rarely makes exceptions for common sense.”

Well up to a point. Isn’t this why we have judges to judge? To look at the spirit as well as the letter of the law?

Again, jury trial would sort this out. The whole purpose of the jury is that they are NOT lawyers – they can use only their common sense when coming to a verdict.

By: So Much For Subtlety

So Much For Subtlety — Mon, 19 May 2008 07:06:33 +0000

I blame the lawyers.

If we live in a law-bound society, we have to follow the law. The law so rarely makes exceptions for common sense. If the law says any cow that tests positive must be put down to be on the safe side, then it said any such cow must be put down.

We have such awful, limited stunted little pygmies of officials these days it could hard be any other way. But frankly it makes me pine for the good old days when you could trust civil servants to act in the interests of their consciences.

By: Little Black Sambo

Little Black Sambo — Sun, 18 May 2008 13:33:48 +0000

Why does this Government hate farmers?

By: JuliaM

JuliaM — Sun, 18 May 2008 08:26:57 +0000

This is pretty much the same as the earlier story of the woman denied NHS funding for her replacement battery but able instead to use thousands in future treatments.

Once again, it is the blind following of ‘policy’ and the total lack of common sense.