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ocifant O
ocifant Sep 30, 2014 07:01:06
Replying to tjj

Ah but the SPM campaign isn't about 'going it alone'. It's about doing what's best *for the landscape* (and tourism). What NE are doing is damaging a fragile landscape and stopping people from visiting...

N nigelswift
nigelswift Sep 30, 2014 08:21:20
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ocifant wrote:
Ah but the SPM campaign isn't about 'going it alone'. It's about doing what's best *for the landscape* (and tourism). What NE are doing is damaging a fragile landscape and stopping people from visiting...
But that was my point Al. Good campaign but putting a nationalist spin on it is positively counter-productive. I can point you to a similar phenomenon in Wales.

M moss
moss Sep 30, 2014 09:15:11
Replying to ocifant

ocifant wrote:
Ah but the SPM campaign isn't about 'going it alone'. It's about doing what's best *for the landscape* (and tourism). What NE are doing is damaging a fragile landscape and stopping people from visiting...
Hi Alan, Just to say that I also admire the work of SPM in their confrontation with public bodies over saving Penwith Moor. I also admire the Carwynnen Quoit campaign (under the leadership of CASPN I think) for their ability to make a direct contribution to the saving of a particular Cornish prehistoric monument, and others who I know of who also stand guard, metaphorically speaking, over the moors of both Cornwall and Dartmoor.....

I think people should read what is in the actual manifesto of SPM, and make their own judgments as to what is political or not, a love of the land we live on is not necessarily nationalistic...

http://www.savepenwithmoors.com/2014%20SPM%20HEATH%20VISION.pdf

T tjj
tjj Sep 30, 2014 11:17:49
Replying to ocifant

ocifant wrote:
Ah but the SPM campaign isn't about 'going it alone'. It's about doing what's best *for the landscape* (and tourism). What NE are doing is damaging a fragile landscape and stopping people from visiting...
Then I support it wholeheartedly. Going back to the original Youtube link - (I've watched it again to check whether I had got the wrong end of the stick). The justifiable grievances against Natural England seem to have been turned into a grievance against England in general. As mentioned before, its timing probably wasn't the best.

I was without access to a car while I was down there but did take the bus to Zennor and walked up Zennor Hill to find the fallen quoit. That alone gave me another insight into the unique moorland which of course must be protected - I didn't know there were adders up there until I read the field notes on TMA.

As a more positive footnote. I bought a beautiful illustrated children's book of Cornish Tales by Eric Quale and Michael Foreman from St Ives Bookshop. The illustrations include many of Cornwall's ancient sites. I couldn't resist ...