27.8.11 Garden Gate

Is this about as pathetic as it gets?  Have we sunk to the lowest possible point?  Has modern Britain degenerated into a place of no common sense, over-regulation, buffoonery and pettiness?  It would appear to be a resounding "Yes" to these questions, based on the approach adopted by councillors in Dorset.  After using a gate in their garden as access to a public park for the last 19 years, Mr & Mrs Pearse have now found themselves barricaded in.  Thanks to the parish council attitude, there is now a seven-foot wide fence set one inch in front of the gate.  It was obviously judged as appropriate to waste £500 getting workment to turn up without warning and block it off the gate.

There is a lot that's wrong with the world, and a quite considerable amount that's wrong with this country.  Building this seven-foot fence to pen in a couple in Dorset does fuck all to solve anything.  The councillors are cunts, in my opinion.

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