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Whose health, whose safety?
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:03 pm
by alan refail
As a resident of Leeds for 40 years (up to 10 years ago) how this saddens me - and makes me glad I am no longer there
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west ... 331312.stm
Re: Whose health, whose safety?
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:25 pm
by oldherbaceous
The only thought that comes to mind is, i suppose a pine neddle might snag the tweed.
How pathetic.
Re: Whose health, whose safety?
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:41 pm
by FelixLeiter
This is why City Council officers are paid so handsomely. I'm rather glad it's been cut down — it's not Christmas yet. Call us old fashioned, but myself and Mrs Leiter don't put our tree up until Christmas Eve.
I don't see why they can't just put this same tree back up again. It'll be a foot or two shorter, is all, with perhaps a few broken bows which can be pruned out. It's the fairy I feel sorry for, though.
Re: Whose health, whose safety?
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:16 pm
by Geoff
Is that the one on top or elfan safety's partner?
Re: Whose health, whose safety?
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:00 pm
by glallotments
I saw this on TV and the worry is that a riot could break out at the demonstration on Saturday between two very opposed factions apparently thousands of people are expected to attend the EDL's rally in City Square and a rival protest by Unite Against Fascism (UAF) in Victoria Gardens. Apparently there was trouble at a similar event in Manchester where policing costs were apparently £200,000.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/8300431.stmIt seems this 'event' is a being repeated in lots of major cities as an earlier demo was held in Birmingham
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/8239818.stmThe council have been covering statues - windows have been boarded etc. I guess the worry with the tree is if someone tried to push it over onto the crowds. The article seems to imply that the tree was removed on request from the police.
The cost of freedom of speech?
Re: Whose health, whose safety?
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 3:01 pm
by alan refail
glallotments wrote:The cost of freedom of speech?
Ay, that's where the public money goes in sackfuls: keeping neo-fascists and their opponents apart
Re: Whose health, whose safety?
Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 8:43 am
by oldherbaceous
Seems as if the tree would have come to no harm after all.
Re: Whose health, whose safety?
Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 10:38 am
by glallotments
Seems so but I wonder how much the whole thing has cost in policing and protecting everything etc.