The wonderful world of Rik ‘Ranting’ Harris

I don’t normally do documentaries, well, ok, that’s a lie, I was just trying to make myself sound more interesting – failed.

On with the plot. Panorama did an undercover investigation on the cheap clothing outlet, Primark. They ‘exposed’ the chain for using subcontracted 3rd parties who use child labour. – Gasp! Shock!.. well that’s a big scoop eh.. they sell tops for less than a happy meal, its not really earth moving news to hear that they farm out the work to people who wont demand cost of living + 5% wage increases every 6 months.

My argument is this, the parts of India where the clothes were being made was very poor, almost to the point of mud huts – there were no schools, no police, no nothing – just rows and rows of children working.

Im sorry but if we adopted this attitude in the UK it would stop yob culture quicker than a 10 year old could roll you a fat one. Imagine the gobby street urchins being rammed into a small room, 30 at a time, and set to work for 10 hours – what better way to win our streets back.

Ok, maybe that would never happen, but think of the MONEY that this practice is bringing to some of the poorest parts of India. Ramjid’s parents are too old to work, but Ramjid can earn a living for them instead of all just sitting in a field, having a swarm of flies buzzing around them waiting for a Western film crew to film another ‘just £2 a month…’ advert.

Good on them I say, you’ve got kids doing stuff other than puncturing each others kidneys, money coming into an area that desperately needs it and best of all…. Cheap chavvy clothes for the UK.

It’s a win win situation, no?

I have a question, why is it that drivers are being taxed to the eyeballs because of the amount of Co2 they are producing, yet people in the home are being offered freebies (Low energy light bulbs etc) to help lower the Co2 they produce.

65% of Co2 emissions come from the consumption of fuel to generate energy and yet only 21% comes from transport (which INCLUDES buses!) - so why don’t Householders get taxed for using over a certain amount of energy and why dont drivers get given freebies to help reduce C02?

Perhaps i can answer my own question. Its because the Government cant just make up taxes for households as there are guidelines to prevent them from robbing people blind and of course it doesn’t give a flying fook about the environment, unless of course it can make a fast buck.

Let the drivers of the UK stump up all the cash and be blamed for the earth turning into a giant fireball. Sounds like a plan.

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Fred, 15, was gunned down whilst he slept in his parents home in peckham.
Jonny and billy burst into the house in the early hours of the morning and sprayed the teenagers bedroom in bullets from a Mac-10 machine gun.

It was a revenge attack that was meant for Freds brother Spud. It seems Spud has annoyed some fellow Drug dealer by not sharing proceeds from a series of ‘cash in transit’ robberies - and that’s all you need to do these days to guarantee a shower of bullets from a converted blank firing automatic weapon.

The thing that annoys me with this story (apart from the people dying stuff…) is Spud is on remand now for the robberies and he has had his sentence REDUCED by a judge from 5years to 2years because ‘Spud blames himself for his brothers death..’

Well funk me with a rubber chicken, OF COURSE ITS YOUR FAULT, THE BULLETS WERE MEANT FOR YOU! - I have no clue what was going on in the mind of that high court judge, but surely the message that we have been trying to portray is ‘DRUGS KILL’ - if you dick around in circles like that, people WILL get hurt. You cant have your cake and eat it people.

His sentence should have been INCREASED with the additional charge of manslaughter for his brother, seen as he was DIRECTLY responsible.

_{Names have been changed to protect no one, but just for fun}

Before I start, i would like to point out that i love crimewatch, i love the fact that its allowing Police the chance to ask for help on a larger scale than those ‘can you help’ boards we normally see dotted around the place after some 9 year old gang member has been turned into a pin cushion by a rival.

But, in tonight’s episode one of Metropolitan police’s finest officers, complete with new tie and clean shirt just for tv answered a question with a remark that caused me to spit beer all over the floor in violent, projectile fashion.

When asked by new crimewatch tart Kirsty Young, ‘what do you need from our viewers tonight’ he looks straight at the camera and without even realizing he says, ‘Well, we just need the name of the murderer….’

The popular phrase ‘NO SHIT SHERLOCK’ springs to mind.

Keep up the good work guys

Well i nearly did..so annoyed was i with the shear volume of advertisements for this shite new film about 4 over the hill sluts who sit around all day bitching about the sex they should be thankful they got.

Here in the UK we have a program that is in a very similar format aired during the day. Loose women. “During the day?!’ you shout, surely something that sports the same killer plots as the glitsy new film should be shown at a more ‘prime’ time?! – well yes…. If it wasn’t as dull as black & white TV.

Understand this, its tacky, annoying, American rubbish and to see every other piece of TV i watch transformed into either an advert for the film or some equally tacky merchandise that’s endorsed by the film fills me with a rage usually reserved for traffic wardens.

To sum up, if you fancy seeing a film about a group of women that look like a posh version of your nan, sporting an attitude that rivals naomi cambell with a totally unrealistic disposable income which will leave you totally deflated then be my guest.