You have failed and continue to be miserable failures

People affect the lives of other people in old Blighty (and I hear in many other parts of the world) on an alarmingly regular basis. They interact, advisee, cajole, help, ignore, pleasure and hurt other people all of the time. Speaking from my own personal perspective I welcome it and on balance it has been a blessing. Though I am perfectly capable of enjoying long periods of time alone and without speaking to another soul I am, as most people are, social.

I like people coming into my life and interfering in a good way. Hey look, we’ve improved this particular model of our BBQ. Would you like to buy it? Oh yes indeed. Fancy a drink mate? Oh most definitely. How was your day? Oh, you know. I love you. I love you too. It’s great.

It’s not all good though. Some people interfere in a bad way and generally do all they can to spoil the very idea of having strangers come into your life. For instance, when we were burgled some years ago. Strangers came into our lives, interfered, and left us worse off than we were before they arrived.

Often, people who interfere fall into groups that can be named. For instance “criminals”. These groups are generally easy to place on either the good shelf or the bad shelf. We categorise them not only by their stated and measurable overall affect on society in general but also on the way they interact with ones self personally and the weighting given to the different types of interaction (remote or personal) is not necessarily a subjective one. A bad personal interaction with a group or member of a group carries more weight than a more remote one.

For instance, one policeman interfering personally can seriously affect a persons view of policemen as a group. It’s not only natural but an accepted way of measuring on which particular shelf a group should go. Your behaviour has brought this particular organisation into disrepute. They would not use that statement and punish (at least in part) on the basis of that statement if they did not recognise the validity of judging a group by the actions of a few. We all do it, it’s just that in the legal world they use fancy statements instead of the layman’s more preferred terminology.They’re all wankers. I hate the lot of them. They’re all the same. Luckily for us people tend to adjust their view over time and recognise the benefits that a group brings. They recognise their overreaction given time and move a group from the bad shelf to the good even if the group was on the bad shelf due to some dreadful personal interaction.

Some groups, and some group members, prove themselves such a bad influence on a very personal level over and over again that one becomes weary and wary of ever moving them back to the good shelf. It’s not necessarily fair but that is the way it is. Local councils for instance. If one were to, say (and as a made up example), have planning permission for a small extension denied, then have permission to remove a large protected tree turned down, then be asked to trim your hedge on a regular basis, then have the street outside made a no parking zone, then be refused permission to put a new sunlight window in your roof and then see the council give permission for a block of flats to go up next door you would naturally put them on the bad shelf on an effectively permanent basis. This would be true no matter how many other great things they do. A few people in planning, following a few rules only to somehow adjust their interpretation when it suits them will result in you being very, very unlikely to cooperate with any council proposal ever again because they have clearly proven themselves to be wankers.

I now welcome two groups into my own bad interfering category. They have affected me extremely poorly on a personal level so many times over a period of a number of years that a briefest glimpse of the good shelf is something that they can now only dream about.

To the Association of Chief Police Officers and to politicians. Your two groups, and the behaviour of individual members of your two groups, over a period of a number of years have personally affected the quality of my life to such an extent that I can no longer foresee a time when, or a method by which, you will ever be considered a positive force. I have had to modify my behaviour so many times that I can no longer enjoy many of the things that contributed so significantly to the quality of my life and I have had to do so at your insistence. You have chosen, because of the actions of people that I have never met, to constrain and restrict my activities and you have done so over and over again without reward or benefit to either myself or to society in general. You have failed and continue to be miserable failures. You will find no quarter and no comfort here.