Tim Worstall

Damn There Are Some Wankers Out There

From Rod Liddle:

A Remembrance Day parade held for the past 60 years or so in Horwich,
Lancashire, will not go ahead this November. The police and local council
want the marchers to provide barriers, pay countless “marshals” at £50 per
day to manage the route and charge up to £800 for every road that needs to
be closed.


The war veterans can’t afford it. What they should do, of course, is ignore
the council and the police and march anyway, refusing to pay a penny all the
while and with a total absence of barriers of any kind. And almost certainly
find the entire town has fallen in step behind them. Go on, copper;
prosecute that.

Yes, that’s exactly what they should do.
 

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8 responses

  1. Rod The Brit Avatar
    Rod The Brit

    I’m not a war veteran, but I would march with them.

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  2. Cleanthes Avatar
    Cleanthes

    “pay countless “marshals” at £50 per day to manage the route”
    Don’t they have cadets in Lancashire? It’s one of the biggest public parade events for the ACF, ATC, Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, you name it, there are countless organisations for teenagers who privide stooges to do this sort of stuff.

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  3. Opinionated Avatar
    Opinionated

    Sickening.

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  4. Surreptitious Evil Avatar
    Surreptitious Evil

    “Go on, copper; prosecute that.”
    Well, strictly it should be “copper; arrest that: CPS; prosecute them” but, they would, mostly for showing up the ‘crats. It is the law-abiding-except-this-once who find themselves dragged in front of the beak – the career or culture (as in mould, not as in opera) criminals get away with it.
    For the benefit of the doubt, “getting away with it” includes cautions; fines levied at pence per week out of your benefit, which you don’t pay anyway; most community service orders; ASBOs; etc. Things that would shock and shame the hard-working through sheer social embarrassment are useless (or worse than that, an achievement award) for many.
    S-E

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  5. Roger Thornhill Avatar
    Roger Thornhill

    Can’t remember where I heard it, but this fussiness comes from an incident when a car ploughed into a Girl Guides’ Parade or somesuch.
    The police were sued.
    Now, forgive me if I am wrong, but how about sueing the CAR DRIVER! At all times the driver should expect anything and everything in the road.
    Madness begats madness.

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  6. Rick Avatar
    Rick

    How come every other town and village still manages to have its parade?
    Are the council and police in Horwich especially paranoid?
    Anyway, can’t they just march without permission? Don’t you only need permission if the march is in a restricted area, like around the Houses of Parliament?

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  7. The Remittance Man Avatar
    The Remittance Man

    They probably can’t use Girl Guides, Scouts, CCF members etc on account of it being against child labour laws or some other dimwitted idea.
    Or maybe because the above mentioned were deemed “kiddies” every veteran would have to go through the anti-molester police check.

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  8. Terry Bennett Avatar
    Terry Bennett

    Well I think we still have time to launch a co-ordinated approach to this situation in the form of a military style manuvere to make life as difficult as possible for the council and their stooges.
    Anyway let me know. T.

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