Monday 27 February 2012

I Think John Bell Speaks For Us All…

Mr Bell spent 35 years living and working in the Far East as a director of the production of clothes for major high street stores such as H&M, Debenhams and Next, and received an OBE for his work in stamping out child labour in Bangladesh. He only returned to his home town of Bournemouth in the past four years, and was shocked to find he was not safe.

“I could be dead, just from sitting in my car in Poole Road,” he said.

“It was a shock to me to come back to Bournemouth and find it uncivilised for an elderly person to go out alone. I didn’t expect to find my home town full of crooks and criminals.”
Those who have spent their working lives abroad must dream of a return to the England they knew. How cruel to find it’s often even less law-abiding than the places they recently left…
Bournemouth Crown Court heard last week that Bissett thought the car was a taxi, was “wholly apologetic” and had been so drunk he couldn’t remember the incident.
Riiiiight…

Clearly, though, not that apologetic:
Mr Bell still cannot lift up his arm and has to take prescribed painkillers just to be able to sleep at night.

But he is determined not to let the attack affect his life, and still goes out to collect his early morning paper.

However, he has spent thousands of pounds on carers and on a mobility scooter and has been told there will be no compensation from his attacker to help him cover those costs.
Mr Bell must be wondering whether it would have been better to stay in the Far East.
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7 comments:

  1. Oldrightie27 February 2012 at 13:46

    Mr Bell must be wondering whether it would have been better to stay in the Far East.

    It most certainly would. Labour poured the riff raff into the coastal B&B areas and overnight turned them into lawless ghettoes.

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  2. Hexe Froschbein27 February 2012 at 18:29

    Had he spent time in the UK, stamping out assorted idiocies instead of messing around in the Far East on an egotistical quest to be a do-gooder[1], his home country would be less of a state that it is.

    So well done that drunk toerag who picked on a deserving target!

    [1] People in those places deliberately produce children to sell into bonded labour -- a man with 4 wives he hotswaps out when they no longer can bear children can knock out a lot of cheap labour, and then there is the dowry for selling the girls to rake in later on... the fact that there are so many kids who are sold into slavery is no accident, it's a business venture/pension scheme.

    And if he hadn't gone to 'help' in the Far East(who much did his charity rake in for him btw? Love to see his pension portfolio!), he would probably be at the forefront of 'give those poor criminals another chance' movement, so popular with vain mushbrains like him.

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  3. Anonymous27 February 2012 at 18:31

    OMG, do you see whats occurring in Syria? In spite of a brutal government crackdown, the demonstrations continue

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  4. Frankie27 February 2012 at 21:06

    There are far too many pondlife scumbags per square mile in the UK now for any elderly gent to feel safe...

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  5. JuliaM28 February 2012 at 05:40

    " Labour poured the riff raff into the coastal B&B areas and overnight turned them into lawless ghettoes."

    Like Southend..? :(

    "Had he spent time in the UK, stamping out assorted idiocies instead of messing around in the Far East on an egotistical quest to be a do-gooder..."

    Well, that's a theory, I suppose. But I can't think Mr Bell would have made quite so much difference...

    "In spite of a brutal government crackdown, the demonstrations continue"

    And they're getting slaughtered.

    "There are far too many pondlife scumbags per square mile in the UK now for any elderly gent to feel safe..."

    True :(

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  6. Hexe Froschbein28 February 2012 at 08:28

    Erm, he got an 'OBE' for the time he wasted in Bangladesh playing Mother Theresa carrying the white man's burden.

    Had he done something worthwhile (plenty of charity needed in the UK....) he would have been just as effective here -- and may have actually genuinely earned his gong (plus the pension pot) by contributing to the society financially and socially that he now expects to look after him in his dotage.

    Instead, he took a lot of donation money out of the UK and didn't pay taxes here and now is back to cash in on the free handouts he had no part in working for.

    I'm sorry he got hurt, but the man is one of the UK's many high profile leeches that got us into the mess where we are today.

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  7. Peter S28 February 2012 at 18:31

    Hexe Froschbein? Joke, no?

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