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Recent Comments
- Bruce: Years ago, when in the RCMP in Calgary, I was read more
- sasquatch: Al_in_Ottawa "The Council's email is clerk@dersingham.org.uk " Yeah I sent read more
- Texas Canuck: Yeah, but you are probably using a brush to paint read more
- The Phantom: Cal2 said: "...walked by some city of Calgary painters on read more
- scar: Al_in_Ottawa "The Council's email is clerk@dersingham.org.uk " I blasted the read more
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- Al_in_Ottawa: From their website "In no particular order, Dersingham Parish Council read more
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Wow, those two committed the ultimate sin.
"... they had done the work without its permission..."
Work?! WITHOUT PERMISSION?!!!
Two hundred lashes!
‘The circumstances are now being considered by the Crown Prosecution Service. Police are aware of Kurtis’s efforts in cleaning up the memorial and we will work with all concerned to try to reach an acceptable resolution.’
An "acceptable resolution" would find the Parish Council members dangling from the lamp posts, in my opinion.
Just another day in Progville.
caste-e-gate them all
Thank Gawd: the long awaited restoration of Tony Blair's Britain.
Which is what it is. Cameron is the mere caretaker before Ukip's ascendancy.
Just when you think that you've seen the apex of idiocy, a story such as this comes along. Certainly everyone on the council cannot be that stupid and petty, however those that fit this description and had a hand in the debacle should be publicly ridiculed to the point where they would be too embarrassed to leave their homes.
Bad behaviour should have consequences. Always.
Just when you think that you've seen the apex of idiocy, a story such as this comes along. Certainly everyone on the council cannot be that stupid and petty, however those that fit this description and had a hand in the debacle should be publicly ridiculed to the point where they would be too embarrassed to leave their homes.
Bad behaviour should have consequences. Always.
If the British Empire had depended on the likes of these idiots, it'd never made it past the village green let alone Land's End.
Such a horrid disease this Bureaucretinus Pettius.
Your classic "No good deed goes unpunished" type of thing. I think the wind's at the back of Kurtis Green and soon we'll be hearing from UKIP on this. Can it be that Britain will rise again? Here's hoping!!
There is nothing the statist crowd hates more than personal initiative. These two should have taken it before council so there could be environmental studies, permits 1ssued, fees collected, a crew of 5 unionized workers and 3 supervisors assigned and the bill sent to ratepayers. That's how it is done today. No wonder government is broke.
Somewhere Orwell is smiling knowingly and saying "I told you so".
This is the post-democratic new intolerant authoritarian governing order hard at work at the local level. Unless EVERYONE in Britain is as outraged at this injustice as the person they are targeting, the control freaks have won. Thy only do this stuff because they no longer fear public rage at their poorly disguised tyranny. They feel the bulk of the population have been dumbed down and slavishly compliant from state indoctrinating and the constant pimping of unreasoning statism in the MSM.
If we do not all rally behind these individuals the martinet state and its control freak lackeys every time they single some poor soul out for state sanctioned bullying, it will only get worse. England is screwed now because of their inherent subserviency (due to class system/subject mentality subordination) and wide apathy towards a bullying state. They haven't the guts to get in big brother's face.
The sad fact history leaves is that it is best to neuter a would be tyranny before it gets too strong to stop - the UK passed the point of no return after Thatcher. The will and vigilance to slap the ruling class back into line when they violate a free man's rights is gone, and so is Britain's civil liberty. I wish Nigel Farage well in his quest to turn the decline around, but I fear it is too late. I hope I'm wrong about that, but I see no glimmer of hope to think otherwise.
likely spurred on by unions. He is taking away their "work" , not that it was being done.
walked by some city of Calgary painters on the mall yesterday - the most lethargic speed of painting I have ever witnessed. If one could lean on a paintbrush , half of them would have been. Instead that half were sitting in trucks---safety supervisor no doubt was one of them , just in case one of them ingested that dark green national park oil paint
Meanwhile, in Norway, all is well.
http://gatesofvienna.net/2013/05/everything-you-have-learned-in-school-is-wrong/
"But officials at Dersingham Parish Council have taken a rather different view and reported him to the police for his unpaid work – which they have labelled criminal damage."
The psychotic members on the Dersingham Parish Council need to be reminded that there is no such thing as "killer tulips, roses and shrubbery".
The council were probably afraid that the young gentleman might become aquainted with real history; rather than the rubbish the authorities try to pass off in the local schools. Heavens, he might start thinking for himself and obviate the need for churning out unthinking drones like the ones sitting on the parish council.
So the Queen manages to congratulate the young man for his selfless effort, only to have the local dullards attempt to give him a CRIMINAL comeuppance. One can only hope that the local voters remember to put the rubbish out at the next parish council election.
Why is it that you get the distinct feeling that Monty Python is no longer parody but real life?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7fsxnzZF9w
Monty Python - Non-Illegal Robbery
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Hang him and his buddy! They should have put up a statue of Hitler or Stalin.How dare they care about something representing freedom.The not so great muzzies will be so upset.Don't know whether to pray for an earthquake for Californicated,or the new USSR of Britian.Maybe Rodman can ask Kimmie to help them.
Agreed. The whole affair stinks of unions. What do you bet the parish councillors are Labor?
"There is nothing the statist crowd hates more than personal initiative. These two should have taken it before council so there could be environmental studies, permits 1ssued, fees collected, a crew of 5 unionized workers and 3 supervisors assigned and the bill sent to ratepayers. That's how it is done today. No wonder government is broke. "
Pretty much sums it up. Well done JMD.
I can see this would be very worrying from the council's
point of view. No doubt they had a deserving financial
supporter in mind to win a lucrative bid to finish
connecting up the water.
Precluding a waste of taxpayers money would be a very
serious theft in their world.
The council is mad because it was not a collective decision. He didn't have to bow before the petty fogging martinets. To phone the police when they know what this young man has won awards doing it. Is to say the least an open sewer mentality.
Used to be people would talk before going nuts .
From their website
"In no particular order, Dersingham Parish Council is responsible for specific services around the village. These include most of the street lighting away from the main roads, litter and dog waste bins, the recreation ground and its play equipment, war memorial and gardens,..."
So if the council is responsible for the memorial why was it full of weeds in the first place? The young man committed the capital offence of making the elite look like useless twits.
The Council's email is
clerk@dersingham.org.uk
Apologies to anyone on a local government council, but local government councilors are truly amongst the stupidest people on earth. Maybe 40 years ago, a long-term councilor resigned and we tried to talk my father into running. He said that everyone would think he was too lazy to make a living as a farmer. The purpose of the council is to have people to rubber stamp the really stupid ideas that the administration can come up with. The first thing a new councilor does is start making excuses for the stupidity of the administration. I have never run in a local election and never will.
Al_in_Ottawa "The Council's email is
clerk@dersingham.org.uk "
I blasted the dickheads.
Cal2 said: "...walked by some city of Calgary painters on the mall yesterday - the most lethargic speed of painting I have ever witnessed."
Oh. My. Gawd. I could tell you painting stories... I have seen a union painter take two hours to paint one side of a door. Not prep-and-paint mind you, just paint.
One side of a door, with trim, takes me 15 minutes at a pace I can maintain for eight hours. Union painters move like arthritic snails.
Yeah, but you are probably using a brush to paint with and not your union card.
disclaimer: paint and me have never been the best of friends, although I do manage to get most of it on the intended target before it dries on my brush/roller.
Al_in_Ottawa "The Council's email is
clerk@dersingham.org.uk "
Yeah I sent my regards as well...you'n me both...
KIRAHEE!
Years ago, when in the RCMP in Calgary, I was horsing around with a co-worker and broke a window in one of the interior doors in our office. I took resposibility, got some glass and replaced the pane, at my expense and on my own time. The union who serviced our building (I think it was CUPE) found out about my "transgression" and went mental...they threatened to picket the building until cooler heads prevailed. Unions...POS...all of them