Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 2,979
'It is home to the White Cliffs too – and their timeless values of liberty, freedom, justice, faith and friendship, community and caring for others.'
How can layers of chalk have values, 'timeless' or otherwise? How do they express the value of, say, 'caring for others'? By reaching out their chalk arms to catch a falling suicide? Gibberish.
And Dover is 'home to the White Cliffs'? What, did they have enough of the Seven Sisters, take a stroll east, and decide to settle here? Piffle.
She'll embarrass the town if she opens her mouth too much in parliament.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,003
I have a dream, brothers and sisters, one day we will release the millions of (crushed) crustaceans back into the wild!
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,848
I think the trouble is she's writing her own copy. What she needs is an ex local journalist 'working tirelessly' to knock out a couple of hundred words every so often.
Any sign of 'our' Charlie down the JobCentre yet?
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,782
I think her latest blurb is a little more interesting than usual ..........
"Protecting our marine environment
With our area’s role as a gateway of international maritime trade, it could be easy to forget that it is also home to one of the most special and famous marine sites around, the Goodwin Sands.
The Goodwin Sands SOS group has done a fantastic job of ensuring we don’t forget – and that we cherish this special habitat. The unusual sandbank, lying only a few short miles from Deal, is undoubtedly a site worthy of protection.
It is the last resting place of airmen whose battles raged over our skies, as well as light-vessel men who perished in 1954 when their boat, a type of lighthouse, wrenched free from its moorings. We will never forget their bravery and sacrifice. We shouldn’t forget their final resting place either.
The Sands also contain a diverse range of sea life. Blue mussels, ross worms, shellfish, the protected Thornback Ray all make the most of the rare sand-on-chalk platform in the middle of the sea. It contains special rest and relax areas for Grey Seals, and much more besides.
The Sands have a special place in our own cultural history – stories abound of Deal residents in years past rescuing, or thieving, from people and boats shipwrecked in and near the sands. From Nelson’s fleet to the modern day, it is part of a natural area of shelter from the sea’s stormiest heights.
It’s for these reasons that I am trying to secure better environmental protections for special marine sites. So that they can have similar protections to special sites on land. Just last year, the Goodwin Sands was designated a marine conservation zone. That gives it protection most similar to a green belt designation on land – a ‘blue belt’ equivalent.
That’s a great start and I want to go further, to strengthen that protection. I want to see a new class of ‘special marine interest’ sites created with Goodwin Sands at the top of the list. The new classification would provide similar protections to Sites of Special Scientific Interest on land – with a much higher threshold for commercial activities like aggregates extraction.
I recently met with the Environment Secretary to discuss the idea – and I will keep working with them and marine-minded colleagues in the months ahead to take it forward. I also met with the Goodwin Sands SOS group. I will be seeking further engagement with Government agencies around the dredging work that is already planned, so that it can be approached as sensitively and sensibly as may be possible.
Our marine environment is so important – especially to coastal communities like ours. Whether it’s trade, tourism, or a simple day out with the family, the sea is in the heartbeat of our community.
We cannot take it for granted. We must ensure it is protected for every person and every generation – so that where we live continues to remain such a special corner of our nation."
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 2,979
'I recently met with the Environment Secretary to discuss the idea – and I will keep working with them'.
Whoops! Since yesterday, that one's a gonner. Perhaps Mrs E's rather more politically astute than I give her credit for, hence her use of 'them' rather than 'her'.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,225
No, she just knows how to talk proper
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
errrrrrrrrrrrr dont you mean nag rb.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,782
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,294
On the face of it, this is really poor form. Really poor.
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,003
Jan Higgins wrote:Easy money, but not really what I expect from my local mp, are her finances that bad?
You're just envious of £25k for 12 hours' work!
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Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,931
Jan Higgins wrote:Easy money, but not really what I expect from my local mp, are her finances that bad?I
Just another ‘naughty Tory’ with less of the running around to achieve success?
Do nothing and nothing happens.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,823
That's her problem still supporting him
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
She will need all the help she can get to hold on to her job as a Mp sorry but that help will not come from me
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,017
Good job not everyone supports the view of the last two posters.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,823
A vast majority do hold that view
And whilst I supported him whilst he appeared to be telling the truth.
Once he lied to everyone
And judge was clear he was a predator
.I could see it was time to distance .
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
It certainly won't have done her standing any good with the local electorate to have taken her 25 shekels from The Sun, of all the nationals. A lot of Dovorians have the nouse to hold that paper in justifiable contempt after Hillsborough, Milly Dowler etc.
She is being seen increasingly as a spineless individual as far as I'm aware, even amongst some of the local Tories though they are loathe to admit it publicly.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,017
Interesting article in the Mail today .Charlies Mother in law airing their dirty washing for us all to read .A previous Town Mayor .Looks as formidable as me .I think Charlie met his match there .
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,782
Seems that side of the family like easy money, the Mail story is another as I doubt it was done for free.
I feel sorry for the children with a grandmother dishing the dirt like that.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,017
Agree Jan .Should have been discussed behind closed doors