The Racism Thing(s)

Following the eviction of Dale Farm Britain saw a flurry of racism scandals. I think there were three in football and two in the X-Factor. The only thing these stories had in common were they left people asking; "Was that racist?"

Most of the stories died out as quickly as they'd started. However the story about Chelsea footballer John Terry allegedly racially abusing Queens Park Rangers (QPR) footballer Anton Ferdinand is still running fuelled by Scotland Yard's (the police) decision on November 2nd to investigate the incident as a possible criminal offence. This is because when Wayne Rooney is otherwise engaged in sending off scandals I become either John Terry or Frank Lampard in the football code. According to legend and folklore back in 2005 I apparently racial abused a Frenchman. Although not actually true Britain has used this story to create divisions between me and the whole of France. So by bringing up the matter again at the start of the French hosted G20 Summit Britain was effectively grabbing the French President by the shoulders and frantically shouting; "Look, look you have to hate him!" Therefore we need to be open to the possibility that in the scandal where Nicholas Sarkozy and Barack Obama were overheard making disparaging comments about Israel at the G20 neither party were talking about the actual Israel.

As for the Court of Protection (COP) matter. Yesterday (7/11/11) I was emailed a request for a completed fee undertaking which is basically a legally binding IOU note. This was made available to COP staff at the start of business today (8/11/11). As a result the case is now at the top of the Courts schedule and should be dealt with as soon as the Judge has finished with an attended hearing. Feasibly this means that the matter could be being dealt with now. You may have noticed I'm currently desperately trying to think about other things.