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Thread #36584   Message #545559
Posted By: The Shambles
09-Sep-01 - 06:49 AM
Thread Name: All UK folkies take note - the law!!!
Subject: RE: All UK folkies take note - the law!!!
Roger

Are you now conviced by his arguments?

With the greatest of respect. There have always been two strands to this. Legislation and the interpretation of it.

What ever the new legislation may be, it will still be local authorities that will enforce it, as they see it locally. We have to force them to change their age-old attitudes if the new is not to be worse than the old.

Mr Grainger has it in his power to change their interpretation locally, NOW.

He chooses to do nothing, and claim that it does not threaten local traditional events, the nature of which he still does not understand and HIDE behind and blame the legislation. Please don't swallow this line?

It matters not and I don't really care what his personal view is, and I think having tried to reason with him face to face, I know what that is.

They have done all this, without the slightest concern for the effect for the things we love. Of course he wants it resolved NOW. For thanks to all of our efforts, they are now exposed and out in the open.

If he seriously wants it resovled, it is in his power now.

We just have to keep them there in the spotlight, still attempting to justify what cannot be justified.

The prevention of the Human Right of freedom of expression, where there are no (safety, as they have now admitted) grounds to do so