Recently I was in a popular chesterfield supermarket and as I walked towards the escalator I saw a rather stressed looking lady struggling with two children and her shopping bags and having her till receipt in her hand while a shop assistant was searching her bags, as I watched the shop assistant produced an item of clothing which still had the security tag on it and I gather it had set off the alarm.

This on the spot searching of peoples bags and demanding to see receipts as a result of these alarms is becoming more frequent, it has happened to me on a number of occasions as a result of store assistants not removing security tags, this is as a direct result of negligence by store staff and is not YOUR fault or indicative of a crime having been committed and as a result I now refuse to stop and submit myself to a search under these circumstances.

What the shops don’t want you to know is that they have no right under law to search your bags or demand to see your receipt as a result of these alarms sounding. The shopping in the bags is your property, as is the receipt and there is no obligation by the shopper to submit themselves to an undignified search or to produce their receipt on demand, these searches only proceed because the shopper agrees to a search. If the assistant suspects that you have stolen something it is up to them to prove your guilt and not for you to prove your innocence by voluntarily submitting yourself to a search and having to produce your receipt.
My personal view is why should I be inconvenienced or made to look like a criminal in front of other shoppers as a result of the stores staff negligence, the law says I DO NOT.

Nobody visiting the Pavements Shopping Centre could fail to notice CCTV cameras everywhere, which in usual circumstances is of help to the police which is no bad thing, however whose job is it to interpret the information collected by these CCTV cameras, the answer is Chesterfield Borough Council.
From my personal experience Chesterfield Borough Council is not a fit and proper organisation to be in charge of such an important task, evidence exists that when members of the council sees a crime committed by people connected to the Council they interpret the evidence of what would be clear to you or me as a crime as being completely lawful, however should you or I act in a similar manner then they would call the police in to deal with it. Also you are able to demand of the Council that they provide you copies of CCTV footage they have of you, the Council has an obligation to blank out the faces of other people but also to give you unedited shots they have taken of you. Again there is clear evidence of the Council removing sections they see as embarrassing and generally blocking out anything they do not want you to see. To take this a step further you may need the footage to use as evidence of a crime committed against yourself  this being the case if the Council has edited  the footage supplied this evidence would become invalid, this could be seen as tampering with evidence and a possible attempt to pervert the course of justice. So how can we be confident that any footage taken will be dealt with in a fair and proper manner, in short as long as we rely on Chesterfield Borough Council we can’t.

Spanish police attack unarmed civilians, nobody could fail to be outraced at the sight on the news of Spanish police dressed as storm troopers attacking thier own people at the behest of Central Government, do people think our Governments and police are any different, the Miners strike and Orgreave, the G2 protests where Ian Tomlinson was killed by police, the so called Battle Of The Beanfield where on the instructions of Government Wiltshire Police set up an ambush of the peace convoy on a country lane and smashed up coaches and battered women and children for no reason, the list of atrocities committed against uk citizens by a paramilitary force on the instructions of our Government is endless, so is it any wonder our own government is yet to comment on the Spanish situation as it would be a case of pot kettle and black.

Our opening offer to the EU as a leaving settlement is reported to be 36 billion pounds, thought it seems this may only be a fraction of our final bill, at the time of the referendum campain i cannot for the life of me remember any mention of such a huge leaving bill, to find this money rather than paying the NHS as the tories claimed it seems the NHS and other services are going to need to be cut to pay this amount,  yet again the worst of both worlds another kick in the teeth for people who voted to leave or remain.

I have just heard the news that the free movement of people will continue after we have left the EU, it is clear that the number one reason for people voting to leave the EU was as a result of the free movement of people, as a so called remoaner may i ask what has been the point of the referendum, aparently it is going to cost us billions to leave and it has already cost billions due to the slump in the pound, and the number one reason for leaving may take a decade to impliment, and the government still want access to the customs union and the single market, it is obvious the only reason for the referendum was Cameron thought it would stop tory disunity and thought he could put the EU issues to bed for once and for all, surely this is the worst of both worlds the people who voted leave were deceived and the people who voted remain are stuck with a decision based on lies, is it not now time to stop this lunacy.

I am watching with interest the Great Ormond Street Hospital vs the parents of Charlie Gard, and the question i would like answering is who is paying for this court case, i fear that ultimately it will be paid for by the charitable donations made by people to help sick children, the thing that strikes me is that if the hospital has to pay for this court case out of their tax payer grant then they will end up topping up their depleted government funds by using the charitable donations, surely this is not what the people who made donations had in mind when giving the money.

I am also minded by the Ashya King case where the parents removed Ashya from Southampton General Hospital to take him abroad to get a treatment the hospital said would not be applicable, however it was subsequently proved to be highly effective.

Finally anyone who has had any experience of the way that institutions work in this country will be aware that they will go to any lengths to justify their decisions right or wrong and be dammed the consequences, I worry that the professionals in this case could be blocking the alternative treatments offered by the American doctors as this would leave them with egg on their faces if  they were shown to be wrong,  I do hope it is the doctors making the decisions and not some administrator with a different  agenda.

So austerity is now officially over according to Theresa May and of course this has nothing to do with the alliance with the DUP, in no way will this enable the government to give more funds to Northern Ireland to buy support from the DUP, sorry i mean to improve services for the public in a "strong and stable" manner.