My sympathies to Mike Harding of Bedford, who lost his cat "Wookie" last year.
As any pet owner would do, Mr Harding did his best to try to find Wookie by putting up missing cat posters (on trees, lampposts and parking meters).
Unfortunately for Mr Harding he fell foul of his local council's environmental officer, who threatened him with a £1K fine (Ker Farking Ching!) unless the posters were removed by Christams Eve.
For why?
Mr Harding, in the eyes of Nanny, committed two "crimes":
1 The posters can be constituted as "litter" and unauthorised "advertising", ie Nanny wanted a fee.
2 Mr Harding used nails to affix some of the posters to trees. Nanny was very upset about the trees being "pierced" in this fashion, and decreed that the trees would die if pierced thusly! This is of course bollocks, as trees tend to live far longer than humans despite being bashed about in all manner of unpleasant ways.
Mr Harding rushed around and removed his posters by 3AM Christmas Eve.
Wookie is still, I believe, missing:(
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This is just another example of those that are council employees, or as they used to be known, public servants, who prefer to be called officers and take leave rather than holiday, throwing their weight around. In keeping with the rest of government bodies, their policy is "Do as we say or we'll have you."
ReplyDeleteI assume the gentleman did not use copper nails and therefore, a couple of nails into a tree would do no harm at all. I wonder if the Hi-Viz clad enviroMENTAL officer (sic) will pursue the local woodpecker when he pecks a hole in the side of a tree, moves into it and craps;-)
I thought that Cast Iron Dave was going to put an end to this sort of nonsense but clearly, nothing has changed in fact, things are getting worse. The fundamental problem is that dispite a change in government, the same common purpose infested left wing jobsworths are still the ones running the councils and, in my opinion, many go out of their way during a term of Conservative government to make the government look daft and to undermine them....And yes I do know; since Mr Cameron became leader of my party, we have not had a Conservative Party to vote for.
I commiserate with Mr Harding, as I myself lost a much loved cat many years ago, so I can empathise with him and his family. As for the heartless jobsworth who threatened Mr Harding in this manner, he has in my opinion proved that the spirit of Scrooge lives on in the 21st century. I wonder whether he'd have taken the same heartless and belligerent tone if he or his family, the lord mayor or any other high ranking council "officer" had lost a pet? Like hell he would!
ReplyDeleteTonk said: "....I thought that Cast Iron Dave was going to put an end to this sort of nonsense but clearly, nothing has changed in fact, things are getting worse. The fundamental problem is that dispite a change in government, the same common purpose infested left wing jobsworths are still the ones running the councils and, in my opinion, many go out of their way during a term of Conservative government to make the government look daft and to undermine them....And yes I do know; since Mr Cameron became leader of my party, we have not had a Conservative Party to vote for."
I take your point, Tonk, but even allowing for that, David Cameron does not appear to have lifted a finger to stop this kind of thing: look how quickly he broke his promise to repeal the human rights act in its present form. He appears to be too much in thrall to his liberal democratic 'allies'.
On a totally different matter, you may have heard that the Cabinet Secretary, an unelected civil servant, I believe, has refused to allow the enquiry into the Iraq War to have access to the conversation between Tony Blair and George Bush, on the grounds that it might well harm Anglo-American relations if the contents were made public. So what? Apart from the fact that the 'special relationship' between Britain and the U.S is a myth anyway, I feel that the British people are entitled to know whether, as many people suspect, that we entered the war on the basis of a lie.
My Lord;
ReplyDeleteCast Iron Dave has not lifted a finger basically because he is one himself. In my opinion, he is a progressive Marxist and appears to like the idea of people not knowing where they stand, perhaps for two reasons;
1) A frightened population is easier to control than a confident, well educated one.
2) He actually liked basically what Messers Blair and Brown did in relation to suppressing the masses and wishes to carry on the project (EUSSR/Common Purpose) but with a common enemy, viz capitalists.(Bankers being the "face" of capitalism)