Microcosm of the Health/Safety Macrocosm

A brightly painted van with flashing lights, two men hurrying around in fluorescent jackets...all to change a bus timetable. Remember, it's important to stay healthy and safe, and that's why the government makes lots of rules for you to follow.



(Just had to embed it 'cos I know where it was filmed...good job to the opportunist local responsible)

Read this sign. Don't get distracted reading this sign. Watch your step. You are on CCTV. They write now, sometimes, 'look left' or 'look right' to tell people crossing the road which way to look. Patronising - or perhaps we've been dumbed down this far that we actually need to be instructed by signs on a daily basis?

I saw a footpath 'closed' today, with signs and traffic cones and sandbags, and you know why? It wasn't even dug up, something had been spilt on the ground and was covered in probably sawdust or sand. Not even the whole path...I just walked right through. And nobody died. Nobody had an unfortunate accident and rather than admitting they were an idiot who should have watched where they were going, they instead blamed someone else and sued for compensation.

So how much money gets wasted on this petty nonsense? Not close to the size of the bank bailout or the wars no, but surely enough to give some unfortunate 'postcode lottery' victim the medicine they wanted.

But I digress; for a moment there I temporarily entered the realm where I believed government had peoples' best interests at heart. Dangerous false belief to have, that one. Fabians rely on it.