Party Vibe

@Tank Girl 481376 wrote:

I can just imagine you sat down with a real ale watching TOWIE you lair 😛

I only got a digital telly earlier this year and for obscure reasons to do with where I live (on the Suffolk / Essex border almost) and the Sudbury transmitter (same as that) and something being in the way it won’t pick up half the channels reliably, so I gave up on it other than to play out stuff from the computer and robbed the antenna cable off it for my scanner.

Essex FRS will however tell you details of every incident from a major blaze to a rescued cat. They are quick to retrieve these as last time when they waited a couple of days a big girl from Essex decided to try and get the cat herself, only to end up also stuck in the tree. So they ended up with two rescues rather than one. She actually said to the press it was worth being stuck up there to meet the firemen :laugh_at:

@Tank Girl 481377 wrote:

It is also to do with the potential loss of life I think,

I know of people who have been really poorly (chronic schizophrenia) who have set fire to their homes for what ever reason (usually ‘voices’) and they may not have been ‘punished’ through the criminal justice system like someone well – but they end up on an acute admissions psych ward for up to 2 + years as no one inc supported housing will touch them due to risk, when you are ‘meant to be there til your illness if better’ usually a few weeks to 6 months TOPS

and also if you have arson you are also very unlikely to be given a placement in residential detox rehabilitation etc

I dont know much about those who are ‘well’ / ‘able to be fit’ for legal punishment but I’d guess it is the same ..

one of the Norwich Green Party Councillors – a young chap too – torched his (multiple occupancy) flat after a mental breakdown, the Greens said he shouldn’t have gone to normal prison but Norwich and Peterborough aren’t that bad (met folk who’ve been in just for drugs an raves) and even though he realised what he had done and called nines it was a multiple occupancy building.

plus he had no previous of mental illness. it actually has stopped me fully joining up to the party as due to my own mental health over the years and working in competitive environments (and any job you enjoy will have others competing for it) I felt they might not have done as much as they could to spot the signs and still pushed him hard and that surely goes against what they stand for. its a difficult subject to raise with my local party members too as many must have known him, plus one fault of the Greens (not enough to stop me supporting them) is many of them do seem especially from middle class backgrounds do seem to have inherited this odd new age idea that not discussing bad news makes it “not happen” or “go away”.

This is bollocks which came from the consumerist USA (especially business) and has nothing to do with proper progressive / Green thinking or even wicca etc and is why the Yanks are in the financial and political mess they are in today, we shouldn’t be following it in our nation but that of the European greens who seem to do things a bit better…