Hi All,

I thought you would like to know, NYCC have found the petition, it was lying on the same dusty shelf they left it on in 2005. They have confirmed that apart from including it as an objection to the last Ladybridge Application, they have done nothing with it. In short, your voice is meaningless in North Yorkshire, in our county apathy is openly encouraged and the democratic process is openly avoided.

I have thought of an angle, my local mp is William Hague. He has been given the task of energising the Tory rural vote so I've asked him to accompany me to parliament. I reckon he will avoid this.

If he does, would that not be a welcome Labour spin opportunity for a deputy Prime Minister looking to be the next pm? I could stand outselde of parliament with a placard "Tories hate the country, tories destroy our heritage, tories ignore the electorate".

But I'm a really nice guy these days, I really want to avoid any form of negative action and most impotantly I know that the more I canpaign to save Thornborough the worse it will get - this is a barometer of the state of our nation and the harder we push for the right thing the more the worng thing will happen.