In this case, summed up by his Lord Sweet Justice Geoff T, the responding pressioner, Freeman of Llantrisant, was found to have breach the rules by committing a trespass against Bathrobes Heady the Countess of Manse, and her friends in the Council of Manse.

The responding pressioner was not granted a right to appeal.

Had he been allowed to appeal to the International Court of Bishopric Rights, the Court could have found that the trespass which bleasured Bathrobes Heady should be subject to the principles of diferance and be forever deferred.

The Court would have found that the malum reus by Freeman was in part a reaction to reaction to the malum reus from Bathrobes Heady, who disrupted Freeman’s ability to enjoy his rights as an individual as Bathrobes Heady and friends tried to impose an artificial value system onto him which Freeman could not accept.
The Court would then hear that the trespass of the arranging pressioner Bathrobes Heady against the responding pressioner Freeman, was in part due to the friends with whom she brought the case. Bathrobes Heady was treated unfairly be her co-arranging pressioners and sought to regain this control by attempting to control the actions and beliefs of Freeman who was a new member of the community of Manse.
The Court further heard that the Bathrobes Heady and her friends applied dissimilar conditions to Freeman as themselves, such as relating to denying Freeman’s rights to his customs whilst forcing him to accept theirs.
As Bathrobes Heady was not present, the Court ruled that the responding pressioner Freeman’s case is upheld, and that it was reasonably foreseeable that as a result of the malum reus against him that he would as a result of the injury bleasure others.
The Court therefore defers full liability to the Manse Governing Council who committed the original malum reus against Countess Bathrobes Heady.
HELD, In favour of Freeman of Llantrisant

We have all seen the Apple advert where they advocate the benefit of the iPad is that technology gets out of the way and we can get on and do what we want. Reminded me of my the privileged education I forced out of the State.

At the private boarding school I went to, the only ‘chalk and talk’ classes were English, Mathematics and Science – And there were only two types of classes: Pre-GCSE and GCSE level.

Whilst my GCSE grades were all below C-grade this was more to do with the performance anxiety I have always had around exams interacting with my epilepsy so it was impossible. Years later when I retook the exams knowing I would be able to use a computer and after brain surgery for epilepsy, I got 3 As and 2 Cs. However, that was after I got my first degree, and I still have problems with exams today and choose degree courses where there is a small or no exam element.

The so-called ‘behaviour difficulties’ we may have experienced in state schools where we would have been expected to function in crowded classes where there was no individual and independent learning (IIL) were all but absent.

In this school we had a ‘merit system’ where an inappropriate behaviour was logged and if someone was found to have ‘trespassed’ against another they were given a ‘demerit’ for the period in the day it happened. If it was ‘six of one half a dozen of the other’ we both got demerits. If someone would not accept a ‘demerit’ (like a yellow card) and persisted they got a ‘sanction’ (like a red card). It was somewhat of a game, where because you couldn’t get ‘punished twice’, if you wanted something at the end of the week (like a computer magazine in my case) you would get a sanction so you were ‘grounded’, but not demerited and could still get the magazine. If however you wanted to go out that night you would accept a ‘demerit’! So the system wasn’t perfect.

The universities I have been to say they want to create ‘independent learners’ – but before I went to university I was already an independent learner. For the years I was educated at a private boarding school I studied mainly the things that interested me (within the framework of the National Curriculum), on my own in the same class as others working on their own and the teacher only came into play when we were ‘stuck’ or needed to know something else. What we learned was at the level we needed to develop ourselves and achieve the best education we wanted.

We were a true mixed ability class – we all became good at what we were best at which in so doing increased our competencies in the other areas that were taught, that is English, Maths and Science.

While I performed badly in my GCSE there was one thing I wanted – a PhD – and I would do whatever it took to get it. So in a sound-bite; I did a National Diploma, Higher National Diploma and Degree, before applying for the PhD. I didn’t get onto the PhD because my performance anxiety which interacts with my autism means I find it difficult to get past interviews, even for this one which was the qualification I most wanted. The person who got onto the programme withdrew and 9 years and 4 degrees later I am hoping the same fate won’t befall me, as I am now on a doctorate, and one which I want more than a PhD – A Doctor of Information Systems (DInfoSys).

The reason many Conservative MPs want Unemployment is to reduce the bargaining power of the Trade Unions to negotiate up wages as there will always be a regular source of labour ready to take up the work the striking workers are in dispute over at a lower wage. With the European Union, if the fundamental freedoms were fully realised this would be unnecessary, as workers from across the Union would always be ready to provide labour more competitively so as to drive up production and consumption.

The thing that is crippling the UK economy is the ever rising welfare bill, with unemployment likely to be exasperated by the present government as a result of their drive to cut public sector spending. Even so, I have spoken recently of the need to provide out-of-work maintenance grants to people involved in sort term activities in the people sector, education and training, or raising a pre-school child. Perhaps instead of these as at present being paid on a means-tested basis out of taxing others, the student loan system could be extended to replace the benefit and tax credit system?

Rather than those without work being registered unemployed, everyone should have to register as a ‘Contingent Worker’ if they are not in full-time employment. This could be done using the Construction Industry Scheme, which could be renamed the ‘Contingent Worker Scheme’.

In fact, I worked in the construction industry at various stages between 1996 and 2010. In 2007 the UK Government found contractual loopholes to force registered sub-contractors (a type of contingent worker) to become employed, fuelled by a trade union campaign.

The construction industry is now in dire straits. Small firms forced to take on workers permanently are having to close down due to high overheads, and many of the people once registered self-employed and ready to take up work are now claiming welfare benefits after their jobs were made redundant.

Instead of ‘maintenance grants’, or ‘universal credits’ a source of income called ‘maintenance loans’ could be paid to people who take up education/training, are raising a pre-school child, or are providing work for the people sector. It could also be paid to people who fall below a certain income as reported by the Contingent Worker Scheme (based on CIS).  This ‘maintenance loan’ would be administered by an extended Student Loan Company.

When the Contingent Worker’s income goes above a certain amount, say £21,000 per year then they have to start paying their loan back, through the same system as the Student Loans repayments for those abroad. National Insurance which would fund public health insurance like the NHS rather than Pensions which should be administered through compulsory contributions to Individual Pension Accounts on the ISA model. Those who are paid ‘Gross’ through the CWS would pay Corporation Tax on their surplus, whereas those who are paid ‘Net’ on the CWS would have already paid tax at 20% or 40% as appropriate and would pay dividend tax on their surplus.

Moving away from the employee model with a simpler tax system based on that currently used for incorporated firms in the construction industry should allow for greater mobility and more competitiveness. Having people ready to take up work at any moment, even just for a day, will give more people the chance of which, and lead to a society where people can do the work they enjoy the most and are best at, wherever they want.

I phoned 999 recently to inform the police of a crime in action. They asked my name and I said, ‘Cllr Jonathan Bishop’. The officer said, ‘I don’t care about that, just Jonathan Bishop’. Shocked and appalled I made an informal complaint. The police got back to me today and apologised for the way I was treated. They pointed out that the officer was trying to say that it made no difference whether I was a councillor or not as the priorities are the same for all people. I didn’t expect otherwise.

She then said that in future salutations would be recognised. Before she put the phone done she said, ‘Thank you Mr Bishop’ – Can you believe it!

Deborah Theasby may not be a name known to many, but if ever there was needed to be proof of my transitional flow of persuasion model it was her.

Whenever a new member joins an online community there is a disruption, as in most literary works. When I join a community there are never any formalities, I expect to be treated as an equal as if I had always been part of it. The type of online community character I am is the ‘Big Man’, which is a person whose presence is prominent due to the way they assert their beliefs as strongly held facts.

Little did I know, but there was already a Big Man in that community and her name was Deborah Theasby, or Debs the Complete Knitter from Yorkshire, as her friends call her. After nearly every comment I made, Debs took it upon herself to provide definitions of the terms I used based on her objective criteria not mine! As one of my fellow intellectuals will tell you, it is second nature to me to make and define or re-define words. I currently have a personal dictionary of my terms which is 20 pages long.

Not able to cope with the disruption I made to her status quo of being the last word on every subject, Deborah Theasby entered what I call the dilemma cycle where she create a false dilemma that if the people on the board weren’t with her then they were against her. Because she was no longer the sole authority Deborah Theasby who had been on various Mensa Boards since 1998, falling out with many when she couldn’t get her own way, submitted her resignation blaming me and another member called Mark.

Deborah Theasby, did what I call intellectualizing to perseveration. She couldn’t cope with the new status quo of there being more than one Big Man in the village, so she decided to quit. She then managed to get her husband, Geoff Theasby, to suspend me from the forum for two weeks. If there was ever a case of bias and conflict of interest then that was it. Deborah Theasby is like someone pre-school, if she can’t control which toys go into the dolls house she doesn’t want a dolls house. Deborah Theasby should realise that there is more than Mensa out there and she can’t be a big fish in an ever shrinking pond.

I don’t live on benefits
But I’m subsidised by the state

I don’t hold street parties
But one or two Garden Parties I do

I don’t live in a council house
But live for free as if I were to

Who am I?

May I give my heartfelt thanks to the seven councilors who supported councilors Stuart Fisher and Bob Fox’s nomination for me to be this year’s town mayor for Pontypridd.

To have 75% of those resisting the Old Labour ruling group to have supported me is a vote of confidence of a size I never will forget.

Whichever way the vote went, there would have been a co-operative party mayor that night, and I hope that fellow co-op part member Steve Carter – who was elected with 47% of the council member’s support – is able to hold back the dark forces of Old Labour, and act in the interests of the people of Pontypridd, and not the Labour group which co-opted him onto the council and which the Labour party refuses to recognize.

Thanks to New Labour, the people in England can now have schools run on the co-op model, where parents get to have a bigger say in the running of the school, and the money goes directly to the school without the need of the local authority to take its cut.

I hope now that the people of Pontypridd have a Co-operative Party Mayor and Assembly Member, the Old Labout way of dictating to the public will go, and the people will be allowed to take charge of their own affairs.

It St Clere’s High School in Essex can be an independent co-op and have 92% of pupils achieving five GCSEs at A*-C grade, why can’t Bryn Celynnog, Hawthorn High or the Welsh medium school on Campws Garth Olwg, be co-ops independent of the local authority?

Hawthorn High currently has A-Level grades of 92% A*-E. Just imagine what that extra money – currently paying the director of education’s wages – could do to help them go the extra mile? If these schools were all independent co-operatives, then it would be for the parents and students to decide the school’s name and the type of food it serves, and not the authoritarian LEA.