kevinjohnsonmbe

I’m being a bit absent minded today 😂 It’s a rest day 😂

Totally agree! Maybe there'll be the occasional sacrificial lamb slaughtered at the alter of Trading Standards? LA have sent a note out today saying they are at least 2 weeks behind with planning app validations. Can't see much bandwidth being applied to prosecuting farmer Giles....

I remember a different thread - similar subject where Big J and Beau were lamenting the SW weather....

Oh crap, I think I'm getting athletic! PS. did you hear the one about the Dyslexic, agnostic animal lover? He didn't believe there was a dog 😂😇 Or The Dyslexic pimp? Bought a warehouse! Or The Dyslexic devil worshipper? Sold his soul to Santa.... Oh crap, these rainy days staying in by the fire and wasting my life online are (thankfully) few and far between!

I'm quite taken aback by this. I don't sell firewood but do try and stay abreast of what's happening and this has pretty much passed me by unnoticed. I think a lot of small / local firewood / weekend loggers are potentially going to be criminalised by this...

The Air Quality (Domestic Solid Fuels Standards) (England) Regulations 2020 WWW.LEGISLATION.GOV.UK These Regulations are made under section 87 of the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25). They make provision... part 2

It's a symptom of Covid apparently....🤪

So, ...The Air Quality (Domestic Solid Fuels Standards) (England) Regulations 2020, UK Statutory Instruments 2020 No. 1095, will only apply to England and focuses on the prohibition of the sale of wood in units less than two cubic metres unless it is authorised and a person must not supply a relevant unit of wood if the wood is not authorised wood. The sale of wood for combustion in domestic properties must include the relevant information and the ‘Ready to Burn’ mark as identified in the regulations. This part of the Regulations identifies the prohibited level means a moisture content of more than 20%. ... and ...enforcement of breaches of these Regulations [will be] by a local authority. Has anyone told the LA [presumably trading standards] that they will be doing this? Has there been a sudden surge of firewood suppliers rushing to register and subscribe to this 'system'?

This is getting tedious - you'll only make me carry on if you keep using inappropriate examples 😂 The homosexuality being a sin issue could be his true belief (not saying it is, just could be) but it would be illegal to actively discriminate - because that's the law. Not so easy to 'evidence' the belief since it would be a belief rather than an observable fact. Jews control the world - again, not so easy to evidence (realistically.) Royal family are lizards - bordering on the stark raving mad. What he actually did was to question the validity, delivery, accuracy and credibility of a public statement which was watched by millions and, whilst apparently lacking in verifiable evidence or fact, was perceived as being personally and nationally damaging. I can find absolutely no fault in what he said and yet there have been direct adverse personal implications for him since he said what he did. Ergo - as a consequence of speaking freely, within the legal privileges bestowed for freedom of thought and speech, he (appears) to have been persecuted by the so called forward thinking metropolitan commentariat. Setting aside the lizard theory, it is as simple as - has there been an adverse reaction to what he said Y/N? If Y, has it had consequences? Are the consequences of sufficient gravity so as to potentially dissuade another 'man on the Clapham omnibus' from making a similar statement? I'll "see" your lizard theory and "raise" you a flowchart....

Maybe it is all just a 'manufactured' PR stunt....?

And that, right there, IS the assault on free speech. He has lost his job because he expressed an honestly held opinion on a 'discussion' show. It is the 'control' exerted by editorial and / or management / owners to present only the version of events that suits their agenda. I've never watched GMB until I watched the clips of Morgan stomping off. It just wasn't a style of delivery I cared for. Granted, if you take the silver shilling you dance to the paymasters tune. The only option you have if you don't like it is to walk away. I'm sure he'll be replaced by some suitably pliable, woke apologist that will appeal to the masses and maintain audience figures.

I wouldn't fall out over it, but, well, yes it absolutely is.....

All of that is pretty obvious, but, if you're saying you pretty much agree with everything the Aussie broadcaster said then, by comparison, you must also pretty much agree with everything Morgan said (about this topic - not everything he says in general, he's a bit tit granted.) And if you agree with the Aussie, and by default agree with Morgan, then the pictograph seems to contradict the position that one can express an opinion and not be adversely affected if it doesn't fit the populist woke agenda. He says it "was by mutual agreement", but I'd pose the question - why was there even a discussion? If you employ a Rottweiler to bark, don't be surprised if it barks. Is it just that you don't like Morgan? That would be entirely understandable.

Give it time.... 😂

Alright Mr Picky! A Saucisson of dramatic over exuberance or poetic licence for effect perchance. Arrested, no - although it is technically possible. But ask Piers Morgan if he feels hard done to for expressing an opinion....

Agree with ALL of it.... I wonder how my life might have been different if I'd moved to Oz where it's not (yet) a criminal offence to hold an opinion and voice it as one sees fit? Too late for Piers Morgan.... Ah well, shame, all he did was say what he thought. Not saying I 'like' the bloke but how he put up with the sort of PC shite that pervades society these days, for as long as he did, is somewhat admirable.

What is the reason for the TPO? Has there recently been a planning application nearby? Why would the LA ‘suddenly’ feel the need for a TPO on such previously relatively long standing trees? Pics seem to indicate mature trees, previously pollarded/topped, elevated position immediately adjacent to highway. A TPO at this stage might usually be as a consequence of a perceived ‘threat’ to tree retention or a consequence of somebody at Parish or LA level getting all excited about trees and attempting to initiate mass TPOs. Future tree management isn’t barred by a TPO but the reason, nature and extent of proposed work needs to be approved by LA. This can often be perceived as intrusive and burdensome depending on the TO’s personal approach to such matters.

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Good question! Naive landowners and poorly informed tree workers might not realise it could be a route to securing replanting at landowner expense?

He’s an LA contractor 🤣

What bullocks or stocks?? 😳 ’kin Lib Dem’s stole the LA in Kernow - proper ‘stole’ not Trump stole. There’s no kahoonas on a Lib Dem but they should be in the stocks!

Any chance of arranging for a kick in the bullocks? Id actually pay for that opportunity where appropriate 😂 If that’s a bit too rich, town and parish stocks maybe??

Them’s the ‘rules.’ Rules written by idiots and implemented by morons.

They seem more outraged by the fly tipping rather than the outlandish cost charged to clear it up.