Monday - May 03, 2010

One For Peiper

While the old P-man is out aimlessly traipsing around the Sonora Desert, his mates back home in his home away from home are acting up. In almost exactly the way he wants them to, minus the massed volleys from the Enfields. I bet he’s jealous that he missed this one ... and it looks like he’ll go right on missing them, as I now hear that Ireland has shut down their airports again due to Icelandic ash. No, I don’t understand either why P and Mrs. P, who live in south east England, have to fly in and out of Ireland. Something about the paperwork, that’s all I know. Anyway, on to the story.

Farmers used pickup trucks to close roads and residents held a vigil to thwart the invasion and turn back trucks full of building supplies going on to the land near the picture postcard village.

Gipsies in the past have used Bank Holidays to tarmac over fields because they know they have an extra day before council planning officers are back at their desks to halt development.

But residents in Meriden, near Solihull, West Midlands, swung into action after they spotted the travellers swarming onto the 10-acre field in the village just after the council offices closed at 5.30pm on Friday.

They had arrived with huge mechanical diggers, planning to rip up the ground, pour concrete bases for their mobile homes, and set up a permanent site.

But residents from the village, which dates back to medieval times and claims to be in the exact centre of England, fought back.

In a desperate bid to halt building work to supply caravans with water and electricity, residents formed a human barricade to prevent trucks delivering raw materials from getting to the site.

“We don’t want them here, it is as simple as that,“ said 65 year-old local farmer Lawrie Arnold, who organised the village’s resistance.

“As soon as it happened, people rang round and we started to do what we could. We live by the planning laws, why shouldn’t they?

“We are going to be here for as long as it takes.“

Gipsies used the May Bank Holiday last year to pave over green belt land near Newent, Glos, one of the prettiest towns in the Forest of Dean.

The previous year, another group did the same Shipston-on-Stour in Warwickshire, near the home of Tessa Jowell, the Minister for the Olympics.

They lodge a planning application last thing on Friday, tarmac the fields and install utilities before the planners deem their actions illegal.

By then they have installed amenities and it can make months, if not years to remove them.

Silly Brits. It only takes seconds to remove them. You just have to shut down the cell phone towers ahead of time, and make sure the council members are all over at the duck pond counting the hatchlings. Everyone else just needs a bit of selective deafness for a short time, and a bit of a memory lapse after that.

Posted by Drew458     on 05/03/2010 at 04:10 PM   
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