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It can't have been lost on you Mark, that wasn't watching the BBC, that was watching someone make a monkey of the BBC but not on the BBC... (to be fair, it wasn't too challenging ?)

Why that BBC plum didn’t realise he was on a hiding to nothing and walk away is staggering! He just stood there like a lemon whilst TR butt raped him!! Unbelievable!!

I didn't think badly of you before Wes, and I certainly don't after. You make a fair point and present it well - there are some elements that are impossible to disagree with. Your post about protest (wether it's seemingly worthwhile or not) struck a chord and remained with me to resurface when I heard that story about the taxi rapist. Of course the scenarios are about as far apart as could be imagined, but where I drew the similarity was in the 'apparent' hopelessness of the protest, the single minded determination to continue with a cause that is felt just and, ultimately, triumph in the face of great adversity. I guess another way to define it would be pig-headed stubbornness... Genuinely, I meant no criticism by raising the comparison, more that it might be considered complimentary that something you said is still working through people(s') thought processes long after you said it or, as Oscar Wilde said "...There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about..." He was wrong, obviously, having a Rottweiler dangling from your delicates would be worse..... He just had a better way with words than me....

Thought of you (well, to be fair, no so much ‘of you’ but of what I thought / interpreted by this post - don’t bother protesting, it just costs money and causes hassle - earlier Wes) i was listenening to a report on the wireless about some totty that had crowd funded an appeal against the parol board decision on the early release of that sex pest taxi driver. Who’d have thought it, no parliamentary or systemic ability to reverse the decision of a QUANGO, but a bird in a mini skirt and heels who got tapped up on the way home after a kebab and fell for the old “have a drink Mrs, what harm could it do “ line got some mates to throw some tutt in the pot and the next thing you know, a Senior Civil Servant (I’m guessing - Chair of Parol Board) resigns and scumbag sex pest has to use a spork for another 10 years.... Protest - where did that ever get us.... (not having a dig Wes, I get what (I think) you were saying about causing hassle costs money..... Genuinely did think of this post whilst I was listening to the report)

Defiantly quite odd Gazza!

Have you 2 been on a field trip.....

No, not really.... Andrew at Exac-1 would’ve a good source of info. He advised me against the grab/cone option and I had cone w/o grab. I think, if memory serves, cone & grab is better suited to bigger rigs. Advantage to the Blacksplitter kit is that there are other interchangeable heads to fit 1 rotator - post auger, brush, riddler bucket, stump planer etc

But what if they come from the opposite direction - and that is the only escape route??? Dhooooooh!

(1) I'm not confident that the party has sufficiently defined itself post referendum / post Farage. It is still a necessary 'check & balance' for the Tories in this pre-Brexit era but internal turmoil and the absence of a sufficiently suitable leadership team is not presenting a consolidated stance - hence, my membership (perhaps temporarily) was not renewed. Where will we be in 6 months time? With Johnson, Mogg, Gove etc in pole positions in the Tory party there is some heavy weight grunt behind the Brexit momentum, despite May's idling (a similar rock/hard place.) There's potential for UKIP to merge with the anti-EU brigade of the Tories.... Who knows.... (2) No. Does it go something like: "...Blah, blah, blah, not on my watch, I won't stand for it neither will Ken, no recommendations in the Chakrabarti Inquiry, but I'll wait another 2 years before doing nothing about there not be any recommendations 2 years ago which, obviously, we haven't implemented, blah, blah, blah, solidarity, no surrender, we all stand together, not on my watch, peace out.....?" Do I need to read it.....?

It's worse than that in Kernow! (if yome English!!)

I don't really follow your logic there Mark? I mean, I get the middle sentence, but the 1st and last don't really apply. Are you picking up on a previous post where I might have mentioned voting Green at the last election? That is true, but for very specific reasons (1) there was no UKIP candidate available, (2) the local Tory is a buffoon (3) couldn't vote Labour whilst there was a breath in my body.... So you see, it really only left 1 option - I had to vote Green (secretly, I knew full well that my single protest vote wouldn't change the balance of power in this constituency so it was more symbolic than substantive - the incumbent Tory was returned for a second term and increased her majority from 9% in 2010 to just shy of 33% last time.) In a nutshell, whilst issues of Env and Rural Affairs are very much in my cross-hairs, that's the limit of what could / should be concluded from that single Green vote (so there's not too much to be read into it - it would have skewed any data Cambridge analytica might have been trying to analyse for example.) Does the discussion of current issues affecting the Labour Party 'weaken' it? Is the suggestion then that we don't? Is that just a couple of steps short of suppression of freedom of speech? It's all getting a bit Soviet Bloc.... (I am just teasing there, nothing to be gained from locking horns again....)

Presiding over, but not really controlling, ever more influential elements of the party which he is more aligned to (and would rather be fully immersed in) whilst burdened with the heavy weight of responsibility that comes with the moderating role of leadership.... It'll be an interesting one to watch as it plays out. Where's Vesp these days? He'd have the answers....

I thought it would have been Matelt, but you other ‘usual suspects’ were a fairly safe bet....?

Can't see this going quite in the direction it was intended..... ?

(steady on Matelot, this is a non-political post!! ) Today marks the start of invasive species week, when a range of organisations get involved to raise awareness of invasive non-native species and inspire people to #GetINNSvolved and stop the spread http://www.nonnativespecies.org/index.cfm?sectionid=132 There's some good e-learning opportunities under the "training" tag if anyone is interested?

Thought you'd be all over that Ti!! Although it IS in the news AGAIN wrt the mural.... And it cuts to the heart of the problem (for Labour) of having Che Guevara T-shirt wearing Marxists driving the party. That which has been quietly tolerated and kept simmering just below the surface is now emboldened, empowered and unleashed and is exposing the rather unpleasant, fundamental racism that actually exists within the very core of the organisation which trumpets loudest the virtues of social equality... Local branch Labour Party meeting tonight, I'm thinking of popping along for a laugh.... Item 5 on the agenda looks quite interesting: 5. Where we’re to: what we’re up against – number-crunching SE Cornwall

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/03/25/jeremy-corbyn-branded-hostile-jewish-leaders-labour-anti-semitism/

you can’t claim a bonus for that! There wasn’t even an ATTEMPT to disguise the wind-up!! I’m no particular fan of Gove, but as he did in other dartments, he’s making sound progress in the Env brief. Perhaps because it doesn’t suffer the National, emotional paranoia which binds any progress in Health or the amorphous Marxist blob of Ed. Acid test will be how he addresses farm subsidies in the face of the omnipresent, pernicious, self serving NFU & CLA.

See, you can’t judge every politician by JC’s standards!! (Whilst recognising that Gove might not be the best antithesis to prove that theory ?) I think I “get” Gove. He’s too clever to be popular, he’s not a people person but rather a ‘systems’ person, people frustrate him because they can’t keep up, as a consequence, he’s a poor departmental head / leader - NHS for example. I’m increasingly optimistic about his tenure in Environment though On the STAG issue and the perception of potential for political gain, I respectfully disagree Mr E. Any number of ‘lesser political mortals’ COULD have intervened, it is BECAUSE nobody else has, and that he has recognised the gravity and importance of the issue, that, thankfully, he has. No doubt the ‘opportunity for moral gain’ won’t be lost on him (Labour Council) but does that negate his interjection or lessen the inadequacies of those that have chosen not to?

It would be a challenge for any one with an open mind to watch the OU debate and be disappointed with his performance. The biggest disgrace of the entire scenario was the overt protest, supposedly from ‘the nascent great minds of the future’ over the mere prospect of him expressing his honestly held opinions.

? I had no doubt, but I’d feel morally obliged since it’d be spreading the gospel ? (happy to share BSI pubs without coughing up the £, but this is different.... It’s a just cause ?)

A mortgage fraud conviction.... If that was enough to debar from running for office the Palace of Westminster would be empty bar the tumbleweed!!

I’d mail it to you Mark (and make a duplicate payment on your behalf!! ???)

(A) Is he barred? (B) In a f*ckng flash if the alternative was JC! ? You edited after I’d replied Mark! I didn’t suggest HE was a champion of civil liberties, but rather that those that proclaim to be champions have been conspicuously silent on some of the fundamental civil liberties infringements he has been subjected to.

Gove’s been reading our posts on AT!! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-43492887