Just to update anyone who's been following the ongoing saga of the nutters that live next door but one to me. We received notification yesterday that their appeal over the enforcement notice compelling them to remove their fence - top barricades has been rejected. Woo hoo, the next few weeks should be interesting. -- Dan L (Oldbloke) My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R (Going) Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Patio Ornament) BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005), X-FOT#000, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)
ATM they are away, so they won't have seen the good news yet. Apparently a national paper is now nibbling at the story too. -- Dan L (Oldbloke) My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R (Going) Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Patio Ornament) BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005), X-FOT#000, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)
I am a bit lukewarm about it, as I feel that legal channels are the best way to deal with these arseholes. However, I am not ultimately paying the legal fees (my next door neighbour is), therefore I don't really have a lot of say in how it will proceed. Also, I have already lambasted the Oxford Mail for the tabloidesque way they presented the story a few months back, **** knows what the nationals would do with it. I also don't really want either Bicester or indeed my street to become notorious or associated with racism, as that is not the case. -- Dan L (Oldbloke) My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R (Going) Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Patio Ornament) BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005), X-FOT#000, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)
too late. At least, the woman that's leading the anti-asylum-seeker holding station is from Bicester, I think.
well, I was looking at the "notorious" bit in particular. So you think all asylum seekers are scum, do you?
I don't actually agree with you. The anti asylum centre lot were mainly coming from a "not in my back yard" point of view, coupled to a degree of "the location is unsuitable for this type of establishment" thinking, rather than outright xenophobia or racism. Unfortunately, the NF and BNP thought Bicester would be a prime place to rally support. They seem to have been disappointed to date, but who knows what way the proles are likely to vote if some sort of asylum / detention centre is built. It's been a bit of a storm in a teacup IMHO, there was similar outrage when they planned to build the prison in the mid 1980's. That still went ahead, and now you'd hardly know it was there. -- Dan L (Oldbloke) My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R (Going) Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Patio Ornament) BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005), X-FOT#000, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)
Dan L wrote Essex has just set a precedent with regard to pikeys living 7 miles away the other side of the agribusiness estates and council tax which is going to have interesting legal test case spin-offs for this sort of thing.
Bear says... Hundreds. Bedford is swarming with Bosnians, Kosovans, displaced Kurds, and all manner of minority groups. I spend a huge amount of time in South and East London, two areas that are also home to thousands of assylum seekers. I've met some really good people amongst them, but unfortunately most of those I've met are cunts. Not a clue.
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Chris Deuchar (UKRM) wrote Some bloke has got his house rebanded because he lives near a traveller 'settlement'. It took the Appeal Court to do it but he is now 400 a year better off in terms of his council tax liability and the precedent is set. He didn't mention how much the extra security is costing him though. The reference to 7 miles away is because this all happened in 'Billericay' and a number of 'Billericay' residents have been lending their support against these 'undesirables' despite the action going on in the next village down the road from me and I am at 3 miles the other side of town from any of them. It is happening in a place called Crays Hill which used to be in Wickford until some recent boundary changes. The agribusiness bit is simply because all farm land between here and there is in the same fixed asset register.