Dig For Victory - Flowers Banned

In Brown's Bankrupt Britain things have hit a new low, and are clearly much worse than I had realised.

Nanny, in the shape of Rogerstone Community Council, has now decreed that only food should be grown on their allotments.

Edith Avery (89 years old) found this out to her cost as, despite having used her allotment for 30 years, the council have told her that they will take away her allotment.

For why?

Finding it now a bit of a struggle to grow vegetables, Mrs Avery has started to grow flowers instead. The council, deeming that we are now facing "war time conditions" (I guess), have forbidden this and want to allocate her allotment space to others who will grow only vegetables.

All well and good, given the enormous demand for allotments (maybe), except for one large fly in Nanny's oinkment. It seems that there are many plots that are completely neglected and untended.

Why not forcibly remove these first?

The council are (as expected) trying to duck out of discussing this, council chairman Andrew Cooksey said he did not want to comment directly, but would be discussing the matter with the clerk.

The clerk, of course, is on holiday!

As ever, Nanny's local councils act without thinking and pick the easiest targets on which to impose their arbitrary rules.

Why shouldn'y Mrs Avery be allowed to grow flowers?

We are not at war are we?

Or is there something Nanny has yet to tell us?

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Gutless

On the 18th of May the Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill passed through the commons.

The Bill will remove Parliament from the scope of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and create a new exemption for MPs' communications with public authorities. It has been explained as a measure that would protect the privacy of MPs' constituents.

In a letter to MPs, the Campaign for Freedom of Information has said that it believes that the bill is unnecessary for this purpose.

Correspondence sent by an MP to a public authority, on behalf of a constituent, is already exempt under the FOI Act's existing exemptions. Moreover, the Campaign says this does not explain why it is proposed to remove Parliament itself (which does not hold MPs' correspondence) from the FOI Act's scope.

On the 18th there was an opportunity, via filibuster, to talk the bill down and to wreck it. Unfortunately, aside from those MP's with the guts to at least openly support the bill, there were those MP's who were gutless and chose to hide their true views from the voters by not voting in the third motion.

These gutless MPs voted for the closure motion, but then didn't vote in the Third Reading. Just 16 minutes later.

This means that they supported the Bill, as they did not join in the attempt to filibuster. However, they were gutless and chose not to put on record that they supported it in the Third Reading division itself.

Here are the names of the gutless MPs:

-Christopher Chope, Christchurch (Con)
-Jonathan Djanogly, Huntingdon (Con)
-Stephen Hammond, Wimbledon (Con)
-Nick Hurd, Ruislip - Northwood (Con)
-Eleanor Laing, Epping Forest (Con)
-Shailesh Vara, North West Cambridgeshire (Con)

-Edward Balls, Normanton (Lab, minister)
-Ian Cawsey, Brigg & Goole (Lab, minister)
-Paul Clark, Gillingham (Lab (PPS))
-Vernon Coaker, Gedling (Lab, minister)
-Barry Gardiner, Brent North (Lab, minister)
-Roger Godsiff, Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small Heath (Lab)
-Mike O'Brien, North Warwickshire (Lab, minister)
-Bridget Prentice, Lewisham East (Lab, minister)
-Joan Ruddock, Lewisham, Deptford (Lab)
-Barry Sheerman, Huddersfield (Lab)
-Jacqui Smith, Redditch (Lab, minister)
-Gerry Sutcliffe, Bradford South (Lab, minister)

Feel free to write to them, and tell them what you think of their gutless behaviour.

Those who stand for public office should have the courage of their convictions, even if they are wrong, to state them publicly.

The gutless ones above should be removed from office without delay.

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