Directives and Decrees

With the petty absolutists of SWT, SCC and NE there are no two ways about anything. They believe the public are so enfeebled that their soulless uglification schemes will meet only the mildest protests.

The idea that the activities of a small number of enthusiasts on a very few days in the year could be worse than their own 365 days management of ecological plunder and pillage is plainly absurd. You only have to look at the 80 acres of "nature reserve" given over to sheep grazing to realise that only tank manouevres could make it worse.

It's possible that some people may have been persuaded to attend this event. There are ways of getting what you want. Or can they be bothered? The wording tells us clearly enough. They are not interested in what anyone has to tell them, unless it's what they want to hear, namely what they were just about to say themselves. Still it looks good from the outside to anyone who's not spent some 15 years trying to hold a meaningful dialogue with them.