WRITTEN ON January 17th, 2007 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Pertinent Art, What do we want?
Ian Brown, blogger of doooooooooom, carries a marvellous Brighton Argus comment from a Lewes councillor about the spate of exploding parking meters
Lewes is a combination of a large number of people who are well-organised, intelligent and dislike being told what to do and if you add that to the high number of people who have a lot of skill with small explosives then this is the effect.
What do you expect when 5 November is still 10 months away? Last year Lewes’ Cliffe bonfire society blew up a huge effigy of the Home Secretary complete with ID stamp. Now the burgers are doing parking meters. What next: speed cameras, CCTV? Perhaps it’s not the ideal location for an ID registration centre. Verily the spirit of Lewes’ former postmaster Tom Paine lives on…
If the operatives are known to you and you want to see them handed in to the long-suffering Lewes police then call 0845 6070 999 and quote Op Magee.
4 Responses to “Lewes: where Real People repond to public technology with exposives”
Sorry, didn’t realise image would show up directly in my comment…
Au contraire…delighted to see it again. The Lewes story is on Digg – go digg it!
The [url=http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.1122310.0.rushhour_squeeze_for_commuters.php]other transport story[/url] in that newspaper was interesting: The plans by the rail franchise company to impose extra charges on people who travel during the evening “peak.” There were many pertinent comments about that and the government’s travel policies.
That same rail company has already imposed extra restrictions on their trains north of London, since winning that franchise – effectively doubling the price of my ticket to London specialist hospitals.
In a world of falling prices, it’s very odd that everything associated with government has a high inflation rate (sometimes “excused” as a “green” tax or “better regulation” etc.).
It’s also worrying that important policy is formulated and major decisions taken, for government and large companies, by these same commuters exhausted by their daily struggle to work.
It’s astonishing that the rich, compact UK still has such poor transport networks. It’s even more astonishing that despite rapidly rising costs, transport is getting even worse.
Like Tzarist and Stalinist Russia (which deliberately avoided building roads between villages), perhaps government feels threatened if ordinary people can travel freely?
Indeed 🙂
For a pic of said effigy, check out http://www.no2id.net/lewes.jpg
I had nothing to do with it, honest guv.