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Welcome to “Quesada Focus” and to my monthly column “A view from the top”. Hopefully you will fi nd my rambling readable maybe even enjoyable. You may agree or you may disagree with my views.. I care not.. These are my views long held and forged over a life time of work, travel and experience. Now that’s over let’s have a look at what is really winding me up.


Legal highs. I have been reading with increasing disbelief about the increase in the number of deaths of people who die after they have taken what are known as “legal highs”. The death rate in Britain has risen from 10 people killed in 2009 to a just reported 68 killed in 2012. These substances are also known as “New Psychoactive Substances” and can be sold openly in shops or over the internet as long as they are labelled as being “not fi t for human consumption”. Indeed the internet is full of sites selling these vile substances with equally vile sounding names. Ask yourself how crazy you have to be to take a substance that is called “Benzo Fury” or the terrifyingly named “Gogaine”. It appears that some of these potions contain a horse tranquillizer called “Ketamine”, I ask you why anyone would take a medication that was designed for a horse. Whilst this mayhem is going on the legislators of the day are sitting on their collective hands and are doing nothing about this scandalous trade other than report the deaths of sad people who are being killed by government inaction.


Britain under water. The news has been awash (sorry could not resist it) with the fact that Britain has spent most of the past two months under water. On every news channel reporters have been donning their Wellington boots and taking to the new waterways of Britain…. Politicians have been casting around for someone or some Quango or another to blame for the country’s inability to deal with what Mother Nature has to throw at us. Money is no object we are assured by the Prime Minister as he wades around the sodden Somerset levels… safe in the assurance that the Thames barrier keeps him safe when he gets home to number 10… you


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have just got to love the arrogance of politicians. Whilst I am on the matter of arrogance along came Paul Daniels with his bird Debbie McGee …do you remember them …no I thought not? Anyway they were invited onto Sky news to show a video they had taken of their palatial riverside abode as it also succumbed to the rising waters….It’s alright for us says tiny Daniels we can afford to have a glass wall put around our palace as we have the money to pay for it…“it’s the poor people” I feel sorry for says the one time magician. At that very moment I was shouting at the screen something along the lines of him disappearing up his own rectum. As the discussion continued Good old Eamon Holmes the genial host of Sky News said some people were concerned that natural landscape and some endangered animals were also said to be lost to the fl ooding …at this point Mr. Daniels showed the watching audience his level of intellect when he said “like I miss the Dodo”… Just like I would miss you Mr. Daniels! We are however assured that river dredging will commence as soon as it is possible… fl ood barriers will be put in place and perhaps at long last local authorities will be encouraged to not allow house building on recognised fl ood plains. This will happen we are told in the near future…. don’t hold your breath.


The Beautiful Game. I have just watched the football match between Hull City and Newcastle United …a game that Newcastle won by the resounding score of 4-1… during this thrashing the Newcastle manager a Mr. Alan Pardew was sent from the touchline to sit in the stands due to the fact that he (Pardew) had attempted to head butt a player from the Hull city team. This madness will probably cost Pardew a heap of cash and a long ban from all football related activities and quite possibly his job. Why did this madness occur? …I will tell you why …it’s quite simple. Ever since the creation of “technical” areas where managers are allowed to pace up and down their portion of touchline shouting and screaming at their players and occasionally shouting at the opposing manager this kind of madness has been waiting to happen. These technical areas should be removed forthwith from the edge of the playing area… Managers should be made to sit in the traditional dug out or in the stands rather than subject the paying and viewing public to the unedifying site of the fourth offi cial spending the entire ninety odd minutes acting like a boxing referee keeping the warring factions apart. Perhaps then the fourth offi cial could more productively spend his time helping the referee with his sometime crucial match decisions.


Smoking in cars with children present Do not quite know what to say about this latest bit of nanny stateism…whilst I agree that smoking around kids is an absolute no no …I cannot help thinking that to actually ban people from smoking in their own car while kids are present is almost too diffi cult to police. I agree with the sentiment but ??? My greatest fear now of course is that my house will be raided by the full sugar Coca Cola police quickly followed by a raid by the biscuit and anti white bread authority…... It’s a funny old world is it not.


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