'Elf and Safety

Last night I dreamt that whilst I was sleeping some people from the council removed the locks on my door and painted my room pink for ‘health and safety reasons’. I was absolutely incensed, but relieved when I awoke to find my privacy intact. It ties in with a very general point I wish to make: just saying ‘health and safety reasons’ is not an adequate justification for stopping someone doing something, especially if it is in the name of my personal safety alone and not that of others. By all means warn me of the risk, but the final decision is mine to make, and you have no right to take it away from me.

I am aware that certain pundits of the right wing press go on about this subject rather a lot, and I concede that in the extreme cases they are right, but they do labour it a little too much, so this is all I have to say on the matter. When you look at it, this should be enough anyway.