* Death by diagnosis.
A report has been released that shows there were 400 deaths in the last eight years carried out by mental patients who had been diagnosed as no longer being a danger and fit for 'care in the community'. This averages about one a week. No details were by the BBC from whom I received this nugget on how many patients previously held as a danger to the public and/or themselves had been released in the last eight years.
This is another feather in the cap of 'the greatest British prime minister of the 20th century' as some would have it or a 'massive carbuncle on the nose of British history' as I and others would have it. I mean, of course, Mrs Thatcher who had the brilliant idea of reducing national health spending by closing down all the mental health hospitals or looney bins as they were known and letting the insane live on the streets.

No doubt some of the recent problem lies with the human rights legislation which considers the rights of the mentally ill. This legislation gets evermore bizarre until it has now become the 'last resort of a scoundrel' turfing out nationalism from its number one position. Nationalism is now considered politically incorrect and Tony Baloney has been running round apologising for the slave trade.
I don't know about everybody else but I won't accept responsibility for anyone else's actions no matter how closely related they are. The idea that I accept responsibility for the actions of some English slaver has no chance.
I'm not one of those people who have adopted the recent craze for ancestor worship that has gripped the English and spawned a thousand 'trace your ancestors' web sites but family hearsay suggests that my ancestors were bonded serfs up until the beginning of the 20th century. I know serfdom was abolished earlier than this but I suspect the Lord of the Manor hit on the cunning ruse of not telling them.

Getting back to Mrs Thatcher and her cunning ruse this is the sort of report that will only persuade those people who intend to p*ss on her grave to double up their salute. This will cause any even bigger health hazard. My attempts to alert the authorities to the danger (see earlier blog entry) attendant on her eventual interment have not been received with the seriousness it requires. It will not be my fault if the graveyard receiving her remains is washed away in a sea of urine.