Table talk in the pub this evening..
There's general outrage and many a finger up the side of the nose at the latest performance from our National Health trust.. Two private clinics have apparently been botching the innoculations for MMR leaving over a thousand kids at risk.. The looks of those along the bar spoke volumes, the questions centered about which box of matches offered medical folks their credentials..
Three hundred years ago, in an effort to ease overcrowding in British gaols, the began stuffing non-violent villains into ships, mooring them a mile or two off the coast, and forgetting about them until either their sentence was up, or the Royal Navy needed some wasters. Two hundred years ago they gave it up as a waste of time, and the practice petered out. Until six years ago that is, when they towed a bloody great tanker across from the US, built a mammoth superstructure on it, and shoved some 400 prisoners aboard the HMP Weare. Now these are peacefull types serving two years or less, or those from land based clinks who have just a few months to serve. Not folks deemed a danger to the public.
Just as well too, for as unlikely as it sounds, they've had an escape. Police are looking in the area the man came from, thinking he might check in at the house to get his mail.
Really.