Double Speak

The final 'consultation event' for the Sheffield Moors Partnership’s Master Plan for designing all the country’s uplands is to be held today at Blacka Moor’s Hathersage Road car park. This is your last chance to tell the partners what you think. Forget that they tend not to turn up at these events because they don’t like answering questions. It will be inspiring of course consisting of a table and a banner and staffed by those who would dearly love to be elsewhere than the coldest and draughtiest part of Blacka.

The Master Plan is their Managers Charter created via their Ministry of Truth approach to propaganda. It is full of Orwellian nonsense that bamboozles the unguarded public into a state of despairing weariness. Freedom is Slavery and War is Peace are the origins of phrases that litter the document. Examples are ‘wild and open’ and best of all a ‘true sense of wilderness’ which they intend to manage via farming and fencing! Some people hear this and accept it!

Anyone daft enough to swallow this double talk deserves the kind of third rate unnatural landscape that we already have on Burbage Moor and many other parts of the moors. Because they will certainly not be getting more of what made Blacka into the most attractive and romantic of the local moors. And Blacka itself is not safe in the hands of these  unimaginative bureaucrats and their dessicated 'visions'.

Once they get their Master Plan in place the Master Race of 'career before care' managers will have another excuse for ignoring the wishes of local people - that is those local people who have not been indoctrinated with the 'land must be managed' dogma.

So it's up to you. Remember 'Ignorance is Strength'.