nigelswift wrote:
Then Thornborough. “The Henges are safe” screamed a local headline – penned ultimately, I suppose – in the PR department of Tarmac. But the landscape is to be quarried. Doh! No mention of that? No mention that 95% of local residents said no more quarrying? No mention of the ten thousand people who signed the petition against it? No mention that the County Archaeologist advised people NOT to sign it? No mention that it was ruled inadmissible along with the many hundreds of objection letters for presenting to the Council members. No mention they were told that six, yes SIX letters of objection had been received? No.
I think of all of the setbacks that the Heritage landscape has had to deal with, this is by far the worst. I can rant all I like about MD'ers and their nasty, selfish, bloated, corpse-robbery of a hobby, but to actually have to share the same slice of planet with such myopic, short-sighted, breathlessly ignorant shiny-arsed bureaucrats that wouldn't recognise something with anything other than fiscal value if it leapt up and kicked them in the tonsils..... coupled with the disturbingly easy way in which they can control the argument and ignore those that elected them...... Yeuk! The reek of self-service is palpable, even over this medium. Someone, somewhere, has to recognise the pristine efforts of George, FFS, not to mention yourself and all those who have yelled until hoarse into the wild wind of indifference. Fuck them. Sorry. No. I'm not. I'm sorry I'm right here, right now.
Love to you all
Peace
Pilgrim
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