I reckon that I do 'outrage' rather well. When I was an Assembly Member, only Alun Cairns and Rhodri Glyn Thomas were as good. Well today I've been doing 'outrage' for the Montgomeryshire County Times. It was directed in the direction of Powys County Council for its Philistinian desecration of a conservation area in the historic town of Welshpool. This is what has happened.
Welshpool is blessed with lots of little passageways, (known as 'shutts I think) leading off the main street. The flooring is a mixture of old paviers and cobbles. This is wholly appropriate for the 'shutt' which leads to and by the Wales office of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales - of which I am the current President. Now someone must have stubbed a toe or suffered some similar injury, because today Powys County Council arrived with a flying squad and covered the lot with a coating of black tarmac. I accept that it looks incredibly neat. And henceforth the toes of the local population will remain unstubbed and pain free. When Chris Corfield of the CT asked me for a comment, I said "I'm outraged by the Philistinian desecration of a conservation area of our historic town, and I will be writing to the 'Interim' Chief Executive of the Council demanding that the 'shutts' be reinstated to their former glory" - or something like that. Tomorrow, they'll probably be pebble-dashing the Town Hall.
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I take it this is a joke. Not even Powys council would so something that idiotic!I'm assuming this is some sort of metaphore I'm not getting. Help me out.
anon - Would I joke about something as important as this? This was a dead straight post. I know its so ridiculous that its hard to believe, but its true.
I see Vaughan Roderick has examples of our MP's pathetic words in his Daily Sport column on his blog - mention of Obama's chopper and the claim that we've all watched porno videos. Well actually Lembit Opik, we haven't.... This is revolting stuff and the voters of Montgomeryshire should be told. If I were you Glyn, I would quote his filth at length in my electoral literature. No one reading this stuff could ever vote for him
Anon - I agree that I do not think the people of Montgomeryshire would vote for him if they knew about this rubbish he writes for what I think is a soft porn newspaper. He is very lucky that the local newspapers do not report on it. Its an utter disgrace in my opinion.
I shall go and have a look!
JPT - Our Director, Peter Ogden was very cross when he came into the office yesterday. I would reproduce a copy of his letter to the local authority - except that this is a family blog!!
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