One Law for Footballers and One for Everybody Else
I’ve just heard Marlon King‘s agent saying how disgraceful it was that his client was immediately sacked by Wigan Athletic. He certainly believes in the title of this post. Nearly all people going to jail will find that their job suddenly doesn’t exist.
I’m afraid that those who break the law should expect all the punishment they get. And if you read Marlon King‘s entry in Wikipedia, you’ll find that he has not been totally innocent in the past. So in my view after King was found guilty, the sentence was fair. My late wife might well have argued that he needed a few months more.
The agent’s defence of his client was loyal, but contained little else of merit.
Farewell – David Shepherd
British umpires tend to be characters and there was none greater than David Shepherd.
He was also a very good umpire, beloved by fans and players alike.
Farewell – Norman Painting
Norman Painting, the voice of Phil Archer has died.
My late wife would have been very sad, as she was an avid listener to the programme. It’s funny, but I used to listen, but about ten or fifteen years ago, I gave up on it. It was one of the few things we disagreed about. She always wanted to listen and I didn’t.
Mount Pleasant
The largest postal site in London, if not UK is Mount Pleasant.
Years ago, when I lived in the Barbican and worked at Time Sharing in Great Portland Street, I used to cycle past the site to get between the two locations. I could never understand, why most of this valuable site is just a ground-level car-park. The site is still mainly undeveloped in an area of London, where property prices are sky-high.
If you take other large organisations, who used to have large premises of this sort in central London, they have closed and redeveloped them. As an example, a lot of London rail stations are new and spectacular, with or without offices, shops and apartments. These developments have enriched the environment and the organisations that owned the sites.
So why have Royal Mail not closed these massive sites in central London and developed perhaps four large sorting centres on the M25, with just smaller delivery offices in the centre?
It surely must be a much more efficient way of doing things. Or am I talking garbage?
The union will say I am. But then if you start with new sorting centres, you’ll probably break the power of the unions to hold everybody to ransom.
On the other hand, as mail volumes are dropping substantially, it is the management of Royal Mail’s responsibility to provide an efficient service suitable for the new circumstances.
My post is getting through, but I have a feeling that the junk mail that goes straight in the bin is not being sent. So perhaps, we’re seeing a benefit of these silly strikes.
The Anonymous Widower 