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Saw this on the BBC news site. What a load of b*******

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nort ... 207970.stm

Thoughts anyone?!

I bet you have got i good idea what my thoughts are on the subject Lizze, exactly the same as yours.
You know this has all arose because of Jopsy's cooking exploits.
Lizzie i love trying to work out the words you use with those asterisks, i have never even heard of some of them.

I don't know what those asterixes mean either Herby. I saw them posted elsewhere and thought it looked good!

Do you mean it's bad language?

And to think that it's people like this who are drawing their index linked public service pensions and causing our Council Tax bills to rocket.

Hope all his friends and neighbours see his name emblazoned across the press and turn him into a laughing stock. Public humiliation seems the best way of fighting these petty bureaucrats. Amazing that the nation has managed to survive for so long without them, isn't it?

I once asked a beaurocrate who I was having a "free and frank exchange of views" with

"If I lay all your employees nose to tail, would you see the point then?"

The prat didn't get it cos he's had a sense of humour bypass the miserable bugger.

I hope the bloke finds a private venue for his community party just so he can have the last laugh.
After all, he's only trying to bring his village together to celebrate Christmas

Tried buying cork tiles from B&Q?
Not stocked, bad for the environment as the trees suffer, buy these vinyl ones instead.
Natural product tying up CO2 compared to oil based product - I've missed something somewhere.
Never mind, got them at Wickes.

our school's fund raising cake sales now ask for donations of shop bought wrapped cakes, home made are a danger apparently!!

oi herbs news of my cooking exploits surely cant have travelled that far!
as for blooming shop bought cakes-good god! i prefer mine any day!
did anyone hear old terry this morninng moaning on bout the banning of xmas decs in some offices?
in class we have a tree, reindeer, advent calendars-the lot and we have quite a few children with different religions
they love it!

We have the lot too in a multi cultural area of work (West Mids) and we haven't had any opposition so far. We've already celebrated the end of Ramadan and Divali and will have Chinese New Year exploits - as we should. Christmas is another one of these celebrations. Diversity is the optimum opportunity, not racism.

What a bunch of kill joys. We`ll be told not to breathe soon in case it may be hazardous to our health
Seedling

Sadly the council chap does have a valid point.

Oh yes he does.

Sorry Panto moment there, but yes he does, it only takes one avericious prat on the make to set the no-win no-fee brigade out on a claim for slipping on a dropped mince pie and you are looking at a £££££££££££££££££££££££££ bill.

Sadly the law no longer recognises common sense or personal responsibility.

Round here Stansted Parish Council, "laid over" a number of grave stones during a risk assessment of a graveyard, as they were not securely set into the ground and could have fallen over onto a passer-by and killed or injured them. Part of the charm of an english graveyard is the tilting ancient stones.

I talked to a woman some months ago who wasn't allowed to sell her blackcurrant jam at the WI stall any more as she didn't have a pickling licence.

On the multicultural issue, don't let anyone tell you the Christmas is offensive to Moslems or anyone else. Our Moslem neighbours pipped us at the post last Christmas with a box of chocolates and Christmas wishes just as we were about to give them a jar of green tomato chutney + same. And we're Jewish!

mike

Risk assesing mince pies my a*se. These people are nothing but useless MUPPETS who hide behind a desk and clipboard just like politicians because they couldnt hack it in the real world of proper graft. I bet none of them have got an allotment cos they might get dirt under their nails. As for political correctness dont get me started, if more of the MUPPET SHOWS which masquerade as our local councils were politically incorrect and talked straight and what they really thought instead of toeing the line to protect their jobs maybe more would get done for the good instead of dragging us to hell in a handcart.

These Political Correctness bods really know how to push our buttons. It seems that next to taxation levels, it's the one thing which really drives us all crazy, right across the political spectrum.
I really despair about what's happening to this country and sadly there don't seem to be any hidden leaders waiting in the wings to appear and knock sense into our politicans and other bureaucrats. Increasingly we seem to have leaders with no moral fibre or guts to stand up for common sense. (Don't get me started. I can already feel my blood pressure rising !!)

Geoff,

cork and cork products are great for the environment. It is a sustainable product harvested from cork oaks predominantely in Portugal and Spain. Without the market for cork the trees are being grubbed up to make way for less wildlife friendly farming. I suggest that everybody buys wine with real cork stoppers and not the plastic varieties.

Cork is Green.