Radio show on Hi-Vis.

Mike Sales
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Radio show on Hi-Vis.

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Reflections on Hi-Vis
Tomorrow, 13th July 11am., programme about hi-vis on Radio 4.
Could be interesting.
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I have a lot of time for Steph McG, should be interesting.
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I saw this in the schedule also but Mike Sales beat me to it. I have set my programme recorder going.

Who is Steph McGovern? I have never seen any of her shows but she sounds like a smart cookie.
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So, what were the conclusions in the programme of the wearing of hi-viz vests?
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I don't think it was a programme that set out to draw any conclusions. Rather it was an interesting romp through the social history of hi-vis and its wearing, symbolism etc. A few comments from a cyclist very capably identifying the tension between its wearing and transferral of responsibility away from the drivers of other vehicles.

Worth a listen if you have a spare half hour
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It was about the social Implications of situations in which hi-viz is worn.
Sometimes it can denote authority. Not when cycling I thought!
It's the same the whole world over
It's the poor what gets the blame
It's the rich what gets the pleasure
Isn't it a blooming shame?
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09pjrmh

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When I was unemployed years ago I cycled to the job centre. I was wearing a hi-vis gilet and the job centre advisor thought I'd come in off a building site and forgotten to take it off - seriously - he thought I was claiming the dole and working at the same time - or, well, he didn't really think that but he was suspicious that I might be! I actually needed to explain to him why I was wearing it.

Or to put it another way, he was dumb enough to think he was being clever! :lol:
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I hear Patel and Johnson propose using hiviz to publicly shame yobs being made to clean the streets.
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It's the poor what gets the blame
It's the rich what gets the pleasure
Isn't it a blooming shame?
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Mike Sales wrote: 27 Jul 2021, 1:37pm I hear Patel and Johnson propose using hiviz to publicly shame yobs being made to clean the streets.
Why not just put them in orange jumpsuits, or better still, stripey ones? /s :roll:
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Yep It looks as though his announcement has been upstaged by the Taekwondo results but there's a report here

Boris Johnson pledges to to target crime and anti-social behaviou
Boris Johnson also said he wanted to see hi-vis "chain gangs" as punishment for anti-social behaviour.

"If you are guilty of anti-social behaviour and you are sentenced to unpaid work, as many people are, I don't see any reason why you shouldn't be out there in one of those fluorescent-jacketed chain gangs visibly paying your debt to society," he said.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57978618
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one of those fluorescent-jacketed chain gangs
Tarring many totally honest manual workers with a very nasty brush

Typical politician.
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Jack Straw did this in 2008. It didn't work then and I can't see it work now except in the vindictive and punitive minds of these two rather unpleasant politicians.

They are covering up for getting rid of 20,000 police officers.
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(Boris Johnson) said plans for a named police officer for every neighbourhood would ensure that victims of crime could speak to someone who understood the local area.

"What you need is somebody who understands what's going on in your neighbourhood, who understands who the likely miscreants are, who understands whether the thing you are reporting - the crime that you are experiencing - is a one-off or part of a trend," he said.
Former Home Secretary, Charles Clarke came up with the named officer thing although he used the term "Bobby" but the rest of what he said made it clear he meant PCSO. There are people with that type of knowledge but IME they are rare.
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BRING BACK THE STOCKS, THAT'S WHAT I SAY!!! (semi-seriously)
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