Binman banned from wearing St George's Cross bandana. A case of "Get Carter."

Here we go again! The nanny state ever eager to crush all signs of individualism amongst the population finds ever more bizarre rules and regulations to enforce.

Matthew Carter (picture below), a binman from Burnley has been banned from wearing a St George's Cross bandanna by Pendle Council, who stated it could be offensive and racist. From the newspaper article it would seem that the poor binmans crime was to be seen sporting his bandanna(his photo was shown with headgear in a local paper) where upon he received a verbal warning, despite the fact that he had worn said headgear for 7 whole months previous to the newspaper report.Mr Carter, who has worked for the council for five years, said he only knew about the ban when he was told not to wear his signature bandanna. But of course ignorance of the Nanny State rules is not a defence, not when it may cause offence. After all rules are rules don't you know! Never mind that the officious little pricks who gave him a verbal warning never had the collective intellect to realise he was wearing his headgear over the last seven months until spotted in the local rag.

Ian McInery, Pendle Council's Operational Services Manager, said: "Matt knows cleansing staff have a uniform and there are clear rules about what they can wear.

"We've made it clear to staff that they are not allowed to put stickers or flags on bin wagons or wear clothing which shows support for a particular team, group or country." - Blah blah fucking blah. Who cares, no seriously who actually cares what this chap wears on his head? So long as he does his days work for his pay. What possible difference can his choice of headgear make to anyone?

Mr Carter, who moved to Burnley in 1999 from Barbados, said he had not been told he could not wear his favourite head wear until he was pictured in the Nelson Leader.

Hat tip to Pommygranate for this story.

He has written an open letter, which covers this story perfectly and also shows the attitude of those who (given some small powers to compensate for the lack of decent sized genitalia on their collective part - or should that be parts) believe that they have some socialist god appointed right to dictate and micromanage every aspect of our lives.

Dear Sir or Madam

I despise you.

I despise your petty, vindictive rules and your tedious way of life.

I despise you for dreaming up and enforcing rules such as these. Rules that make people shake with anger and seek solace in the arms of truly unsavoury folk.

I despise you for making this man feel guilty about taking pride in his own country.

I despise you for presuming to tell me what I can and cannot do. How dare you tell me that I cannot smoke or drink myself to an early grave. Should i wish to dine at McDonalds or mainline Class A drugs of an evening, that is my look out not yours. I care little for you, why do you care for me? Is it my health that concerns you or is it really the power to order me around?

I despise you for the destruction you have caused to Australia's Aboriginal communities with your cradle-to-grave welfare. But i despise you more for not having the guts to admit your appalling mistakes. And now to seek to impose this morally bankrupt creed on the rest of us.

I despise you for infantilising grown men, in particular the working class, the entire continent of Africa and our migrant communities. Kipling could not have been more proud of your adoption of his 'White Man's Burden' mantra. Try for once treating adults as adults and you might be surprised at the results.

I despise organisations such as Oxfam, Greenpeace and the WWF, unelected institutions that seek to impose their nannying, dogmatic beliefs wherever they go, that do little more than provide gap-year jobs for the sons and daughters of middle class bankers and lawyers.

I despise you for trashing the good names of name of words such as 'diversity', 'tolerance', 'respect', 'progress', 'charity' and 'community'. Words and concepts that have made this country such a magnet for others have now become little more than Orwellian IngSoc. '1984' was written as a warning not a fucking instruction manual.

I despise you for your dishonest corruption of the environment - the single greatest gift to mankind. You have lied about its imminent demise, you have arrogantly presumed mankind is is to blame and that nature revolves around man, you have sown the seeds of guilt and doubt and made people turn and inform on one another. All in the name of a science that is as unproven as your fascism.

I despise you for presuming to know best how I should raise my children. Well, I treat my children to junk food, I let them watch TV and I discipline them for stepping out of line.

I despise your attempts to censor my right to speak, all in the name of not giving offence. Well, you offend me deeply, you mealy-mouthed jumped up middle class prick.

I despise you for your attempts to destroy families and communities all in the name of 'progress' and 'change'. In business, they teach you not to try to fix what isn't broken, but you wouldn't know this, as the closest you have come to creating wealth is sucking the interest out of Daddy's Trust Fund.

I despise you for your double standards and hypocrisy; you viciously attack and ridicule some Gods and Prophets whilst choosing to ignore the nihilistic actions of others.

I despise you for sowing doubt in the fields of right and wrong. 'Thou shalt not kill' or ''do harm to one' s neighbour' are universal morals, not cultural artefacts of a bygone era.

But most of all i despise you for carrying out these destructive, nihilistic actions in the name of progress, of the poor, of charity, of selflessness, of helping one's neighbour, of doing one's bit. No such moral reasons are in your thoughts. It is power that drives you, intereference that delights you and bossiness that appeals to you.

So let me tell you, you Fairtrade-coffee drinking, tofu-munching goody-two-shoes, the single biggest problem facing the planet is not Global Poverty or Environmental Annihilation, nor is it No Child Left Behind, but your arrogance to presume to interfere and poke your beaks into every aspect of my life, and the viciously smug fundamentalist puritanism of your totalitarian creed.

Now just fuck off and leave me alone.

Pommy

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