Tony Green on the Executive Board decision to allow barbeque areas on the Moor
I attended the Executive Board meeting and enjoyed it enormously: Councillor Procter (Conservative) patronising the public and losing votes every time he opened his mouth; Councillor Golton (Lib Dem) sharing with us his touching family-reminiscences and concluding sagely that it is ‘a generational issue’: we are privileged to be represented by intellects like that: the torch of John Stuart Mill still burns bright (I wonder how many Lib Dem councillors have read On Liberty: it’s awfully good); poor Councillor Monaghan (Lib Dem) squirming to tow the party line while not alienating his voters: a treat to listen to (how he’s got himself tied up with this farce I can’t imagine; he ought to find a way of extricating himself.) Finally, seeing the vote go through on the nod, so that we all knew that the talk meant nothing, and it was all only done for the entertainment of the public. I recommend it to anybody. And it’s free. Except it isn’t. We pay the bill, in advance, and during, and retrospectively.
4 thoughts on “Tony Green on the Executive Board decision to allow barbeque areas on the Moor”
Interesting Tony. Are you a member of a political party at all?
And I think you will find that one of the few things Lib Dem Cllrs have in common is that almost all of them have read ‘On Liberty’.
Well Chris, that explains why I was not re-selected this time round!!! I have not read “On Liberty.” However unlike the rest of the Lib Dems and the Executive Board, I can tell the diffrence between Concrete and CONCRETE. And if you are having trouble understanding, do let me explain ! Concrete is what the Executive Board said “will not be put on the Moor” Are you following so far ?
Now CONCRETE is poured into plastic moulds on-site ie,THE MOOR. Now here comes the difference. When the concrete has set, the tops of the moulds are burnt off to reveal holes which when seeded, grass can grow through.
So there we have it. The difference between CONCRETE and concrete. Which I wonder will eventually end up on the Moor ?
Tony, If you require more free entertainment, come to the full council meeting. You even get fed at half-time !
Dear Chris: I am not & never have been a member of a political party; but it’s a reasonable question. I’m glad to hear that all Lib Dem Councillors have read J S Mill (even if Linda Rhodes-Clayton modestly claims not to have done.) What I think would be really nice – and this is a genuine & constructive suggestion – would be if the local Lib Dem party mounted a symposium, open to all-comers, in a marquee on Woodhouse Moor, entitled ‘John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty, & its Message for our Time). There are a number of strengths to this: not least, we live in a time when civil liberties are under threat; liberal thinking & liberal policies are very important and properly contentious in LS2/3/6; such an open event might bring together the more thoughtful members of all the sub-communities in the neighbourhood; finally, it would revive the tradition of Woodhouse Moor as a site of political debate rather than merely the subject of it. It’s probably already too late to seize the obvious occasion, viz. the 150th anniversary of its publication, which is this year (shame on Lib Dems for not noticing!) but what the hell. Do it in the Spring. Wouldn’t that be lovely?
Dear Linda: Thanks, as an OAP I’d do almost anything for a free lunch…
I think if would be a tremendous move to have a debating area on Woodhouse Moor with prior public notice, well advertised, advising the subject matter.
Interesting Tony. Are you a member of a political party at all?
And I think you will find that one of the few things Lib Dem Cllrs have in common is that almost all of them have read ‘On Liberty’.
Well Chris, that explains why I was not re-selected this time round!!! I have not read “On Liberty.” However unlike the rest of the Lib Dems and the Executive Board, I can tell the diffrence between Concrete and CONCRETE. And if you are having trouble understanding, do let me explain ! Concrete is what the Executive Board said “will not be put on the Moor” Are you following so far ?
Now CONCRETE is poured into plastic moulds on-site ie,THE MOOR. Now here comes the difference. When the concrete has set, the tops of the moulds are burnt off to reveal holes which when seeded, grass can grow through.
So there we have it. The difference between CONCRETE and concrete. Which I wonder will eventually end up on the Moor ?
Tony, If you require more free entertainment, come to the full council meeting. You even get fed at half-time !
Dear Chris: I am not & never have been a member of a political party; but it’s a reasonable question. I’m glad to hear that all Lib Dem Councillors have read J S Mill (even if Linda Rhodes-Clayton modestly claims not to have done.) What I think would be really nice – and this is a genuine & constructive suggestion – would be if the local Lib Dem party mounted a symposium, open to all-comers, in a marquee on Woodhouse Moor, entitled ‘John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty, & its Message for our Time). There are a number of strengths to this: not least, we live in a time when civil liberties are under threat; liberal thinking & liberal policies are very important and properly contentious in LS2/3/6; such an open event might bring together the more thoughtful members of all the sub-communities in the neighbourhood; finally, it would revive the tradition of Woodhouse Moor as a site of political debate rather than merely the subject of it. It’s probably already too late to seize the obvious occasion, viz. the 150th anniversary of its publication, which is this year (shame on Lib Dems for not noticing!) but what the hell. Do it in the Spring. Wouldn’t that be lovely?
Dear Linda: Thanks, as an OAP I’d do almost anything for a free lunch…
I think if would be a tremendous move to have a debating area on Woodhouse Moor with prior public notice, well advertised, advising the subject matter.