People power

Issue 4 of On The Couch (November 2021) featured my article on the need to protect our green spaces and showing how it can be achieved by looking at the successful campaign to protect Mannings Pit in Barnstaple.

RESPONSE FROM MP NICK BOLES

I finally received a response to my blog post ‘Oi! Wake up, Arthur!’ this week (20th June 2013) which I had sent to MP Nick Boles’ office. Of course, Nick was too busy doing what’s best for Britain so this has come from someone else in his office. After reading it, I invented a game; how many times does the word ‘framework’ appear? Great choice of word by them as it basically means ‘interpret it any way you like and do what the f*ck you want!’

 

Dear Mr Connor

Thank you for your email of 30 May to Nick Boles MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Planning, about development and the countryside.  I have been asked to reply.

PROUD TO BE A NIMBY

From the letters page of the Bournemouth Echo (4th July 2012)

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/yoursay/letterstotheeditor/9796813.Aim_is_to_protect_greenbelt_land/

In answer to Mr Cole’s accusations of West Parley residents’ NIMBYism (Letters, June 28), I think they are displaying quite the reverse.

These people share a much wider view, a view that stretches far beyond their backyards – they are making a stand for this county and this country at large.