Matt
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Does Ty Pawb have its own separate strategy / report coming? Where the public/full council is able to scrutinise how well it is doing. Or are we just expected to be hoodwinked as usual?
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Simple way to get a product banned is to show a marine mammal being killed by it on the BBc’s Blue Planet and suddenly the world wakes up ………..
So Flipper has to die but its a calculated risk![/quote]
Actual photo taken at Rhyl Sea Life Centre.
I do actually feel bad for smokers these days, cigarettes hidden away so they have to play a game of guess if you have the brand in stock behind the closed barriers. Richmond Lights – is that the brand with the tumour bursting out of the throat or the one with the man coughing up blood?
Government think they are doing smokers a favour by putting on these horrific images as a deterrent whilst laughing all the way to the bank with their billions in duties on tobacco products.
Most smokers these days are polite and considerate where they smoke due to its social stigma – I find that especially so if you have children with you.
I’d say if after the cost hurdles, stigma, deterrents, bans, lectures etc… most smokers who were going to quit would have done so by now. They make their own health decisions like the rest of us. It’s a fairly safe bet that effects of passive smoking have been mitigated in public places – so those worrying about 5 seconds of smoke contact are being a bit precious.
[quote quote=149833]Matt – do you really think ‘Your Local Councillor’ will actually help with an objection if they are part of the ruling triumvirate.
Have you ever have seen anything that is ‘consulted’ on by the Council actually change as a result of the public raising concerns or objections.
The reality is that by the time anything goes out for consultation it is actually a foregone conclusion it will go through with minimal change as it will have been pre-approved by the Leadership.[/quote]I’m talking about giving average Joe public a fighting chance to respond to a consultation if they do not know how to do so online. I suggest they attempt to use the recommended channels before taking things further.
I personally am fully aware of the more dire and deeper unfair situation and keep in contact with the actual specific councillors who do care about issues and are likely to provide me with feedback about what is going on within council to help fight against issues around the county and are likely to lobby and advocate for the people as my local councillor is completely out of the question of helping. Likewise, I take my own fight to the council externally, both as an individual sending correspondence and FOIs to the council, calling them out in public criticism and taking part in the relevant local campaign groups when things get issue specific.
But to actually expect other people to be operating on that level, when sub 30% will even turn out to vote in local elections for their councillors means we have to send them down the right pathway to getting their opinions heard on a consultation or getting a dialogue going with their local councillors before they can decide they want to take things further, rather than alienating them entirely from the local political arena.
Unless we build up a comprehensive set of arguments and keep pushing and fighting the council leadership status quo, we may as well just all roll over and die or move away from the area.
It’s all about Public Awareness, Engagement and Scrutiny OVER AND OVER until we can actually get to where we need to be as a town and county.
Being an armchair cynic and stating that what’s going to happen as a foregone conclusion is not enough. You know that as matter of fact because of the excellent arguments you do bring to scrutiny and I’d just like to see more people get involved is all. Especially those who have never raised an issue before as they are less likely to be dismissed as “political activists”.
My guess is any genuine objection / concern to planning issues and the system doesn’t seem fit for purpose to fill out – raise it directly with your councillor and get them to help you draft up the issue. Surely that’s what they have been elected to for, to help the public.
The only way to learn how to use the portal is to join Clr Paul Rogers mob and raise hundreds of objections based on farce against the traveller site rather than just being honest that they don’t want gypsies living next door to them. Instead someone in planning has to sift through utter bollocks about the traveller siting not being suitable because of a protected pinemartin nesting site, situated not 100 yards from the proposed area.
The sluice gate vitality might be dwindled by the mitigating factor of increased human activity on topsoil erosion thus calling into question Defra minimum standards on ground acidity levels for the planting seasons.
You can literally watch an hour of countryfile & make something up and that’s a planning objection in a rural setting.
So yea if you want to learn how to use what is the most confusing system ever – I did log in to see what the fuss was all about. You should tell Clr Rogers you’ve found new objections about the traveller site, maybe some wayward badgers & he will show you how to use it in surgery.
[quote quote=149791]And a performance artist is seen here, reviving the ancient Wrexham friday night sport of ‘accusing strangers of looking at him and offering them outside’.
Lovely to see the young ones keeping the old traditions alive.
[/quote]We have a winner here. Funny as hell!
[quote quote=149718]This is an opportunity for Kingdom to actually provide a PROPER service for once.[/quote]
I very much have my doubts that they will still be operating in Wrexham in 12 months time when the ban kicks in.
