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Campaigners attacked over Cuckoo Corner protest
4:10pm Friday 12th March 2010 in
A CAMPAIGN group has been criticised for not backing multi-million pound regeneration plans for the town.
Ian Robertson (Con, Chalkwell Ward) said the Priory Crescent road-widening scheme, improvements to Victoria Circus and seafront improvements currently underway were unprecedented regeneration projects for the town in recent years.
He urged the Saxon King in Priory Park group, which is currently based at Cuckoo Corner to prevent trees being felled, to back improvements for the town.
He said: “We are spending millions on these projects and I think it is very sad these people can’t see this as progress and welcome it. This is the largest regeneration plan I have seen in my lifetime, so it is sad some people don’t embrace it.”
He also denied accusations that removal of trees from the cliffs in Westcliff caused slippage which could cost £40million to repair.
The council, which doesn’t have the necessary funding to correct the slippage, is proposing to allow a developer to build a hotel and museum to house the Saxon King remains found in Priory Park. But the campaign group, Skipp, believes a museum should be built on a brownfield site near where the remains were found.
Mr Robertson, said: “The cliffs started to slip long before the trees were cut down. Small slips were caused by the water table freezing and then melting. It is not practical for us to spend £40million to pile the whole cliffs up. Planting more trees on the cliffs may help stabilise them, but it would take more than 50 years to have any effect.”
Protesters spokeswoman Patsy Link responded angrily saying the plans were “degeneration plans not regeneration plans”.
She added: “They want to cover up their mistake of cutting the trees down on the cliffs by putting this hotel on the site.
“The Saxon King will be stuffed away somewhere on the fifth floor without even having his own gallery. The Saxon King shouldn’t be on the seafront with all the kiss-me-quick hats.”
Comments(81)
guygrim
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5:16pm Fri 12 Mar 10
Mr Robertson must be as stupid as Anna Waite if he thinks these things will work, the only thing they will do is waste taxpayers money, just look at the poorly designed bus station.
jolllyboy
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5:25pm Fri 12 Mar 10
.....er!
'V'
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6:12pm Fri 12 Mar 10
This is why I will never vote Tory either locally, or nationally.
There are millions in this country who remember the b*st**d Thatcher.
When she dies I'll make an excursion to p*$$ on her grave.
southendmechanic
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6:27pm Fri 12 Mar 10
and you really are the biggest IDIOT about V for constantly going off of subject.
'V'
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6:50pm Fri 12 Mar 10
southendmechanic wrote:Thatcher sold off our utilities: gas, water, electricity, to foreign companies which resulted in the British people paying more for them than any other country in Europe.
ahh you refer to the last prime minister who fought for what makes britain british. the falklands she had a back bone unlike other prime ministers , she never spoke to terrorist who murdered many of our soldiers, and she protected the crown all the way. but hey we could all become enviro loving euros.
and you really are the biggest IDIOT about V for constantly going off of subject.
She closed down our core industries, mining, steel, shipbuilding, so now we have to buy foreign coal, foreign steel, foreign ships. At the same time she threw millions onto the dole and created ghettoes where once there were industrial towns.
Then she created the Poll tax, the most unfair tax ever to be visited upon the British people.
She stood up against Argentina while at the same time doing more damage to Britain's industrial base than the Germans could have dreamed of during the last war.
Just how the F**K is that looking out for Britain?
southendmechanic
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7:09pm Fri 12 Mar 10
'V'
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7:20pm Fri 12 Mar 10
southendmechanic
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7:23pm Fri 12 Mar 10
remember it was protesters in the unions who no matter what anybody did would not be happy that killed industry. much like the lot at camp cuckoo because something needs to be done but they dont listen or compromise they just want their own way and that attitude killed the britain you go on about V
karateman1964
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7:25pm Fri 12 Mar 10
Southend Family Man
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7:26pm Fri 12 Mar 10
The trees and public ground at priory are the property of the residents of southend and should be preserved for our children and their children.
**** says it would take 50 years for the trees to be established to shore up the cliff slippage, An admission that the de forestation caused the problem.
The trees in danger at priory are established and survived the storms and so are by natural selection the strongest.
Some are @200 years old.
These fools in local government want to destroy this local genetic legacy and replace them with some weedy saplings that have a known establishment rate of around 2%.
SBC Leave the trees and park alone,
they are not yours to tear down.
The sooner YOU are all replaced the better.
Sending your lackeys to post pro-comments is being seen through.
Roll on the elections,
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
southendmechanic
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7:29pm Fri 12 Mar 10
'V' wrote:british is just a name for people who wasn't born here?? you are showing that racist side again V.
She can be as 'British' as she wants, I'm ENGLISH. Being 'British' these days is just a name for anyone who wasn't born here. My name predates the Norman conquest, and I have traced my family back to the early Angle and Jute settlement of the south coast. Where is your name from traveller man? I bet it starts with O'.
I am british, born here and served for this country in the army. The BRITISH army.
southendmechanic
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7:37pm Fri 12 Mar 10
Southend Family Man wrote:What bit of they are not touching priory park don't you get??
The de forestation of the cliffs did cause the slip as can be seen in other analog cases from other countries. The trees and public ground at priory are the property of the residents of southend and should be preserved for our children and their children. **** says it would take 50 years for the trees to be established to shore up the cliff slippage, An admission that the de forestation caused the problem. The trees in danger at priory are established and survived the storms and so are by natural selection the strongest. Some are @200 years old. These fools in local government want to destroy this local genetic legacy and replace them with some weedy saplings that have a known establishment rate of around 2%. SBC Leave the trees and park alone, they are not yours to tear down. The sooner YOU are all replaced the better. Sending your lackeys to post pro-comments is being seen through. Roll on the elections, Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Things get old and die,sometimes before they get old they get ill and die.
this applies to you, me ,and trees many of the trees removed in this town are taken down are sick.
Tree fella are a good well known and respected company who are experts in their jobs unlike so many of the internet educated enviromental fighters who are full of conspiracy theorys.
guygrim
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7:40pm Fri 12 Mar 10
karateman1964 wrote:Have you not heard about the landslide?
Stand your ground campaigners...there was nothing wrong with cliffs when i lft 7 years ago
firedog
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7:51pm Fri 12 Mar 10
'V'
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7:53pm Fri 12 Mar 10
southendmechanic wrote:Ask a Welshman, Scotsman if they're British or Scottis or Welsh. They won't say british. Open your eyes, since Labour's devolution policies there is no such thing as Britain anymore.
'V' wrote:british is just a name for people who wasn't born here?? you are showing that racist side again V.
She can be as 'British' as she wants, I'm ENGLISH. Being 'British' these days is just a name for anyone who wasn't born here. My name predates the Norman conquest, and I have traced my family back to the early Angle and Jute settlement of the south coast. Where is your name from traveller man? I bet it starts with O'.
I am british, born here and served for this country in the army. The BRITISH army.
The only people who shout Britain and British are people like Gordon Brown who want to eradicate England and English from the dictionary.
'V'
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7:56pm Fri 12 Mar 10
firedog wrote:It's about a TORY councillor attacking people who disagree with his hack and slash policies.
Poor old "V" has lost the plot again,its about the cuckoos not past P.Ms.Still we can blame Thatcher for bringing in care in the community.
On this board they are mostly supported by our resident trav spokesman southendmechanic. (has a caravan, five kids, has told us he sponges off the taxpayer to support those kids, likes cutting down trees and laying down concrete, definite trav).
Southend Family Man
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8:10pm Fri 12 Mar 10
Hardly an independant Expert!
More a financially involved company.
As stated, the trees in question are of the best in health and irreplaceable in 3 generations of human lifespan.
Whats next? Chainsaws in the night?
This is clearly wrong and immoral,
whatever SBC propoganda you may spout will not change that fact.
An extra lane will make NO difference to the traffic flow as the other bottlenecks will still be there.
evilc
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8:15pm Fri 12 Mar 10
A Hitler
southendmechanic
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9:17pm Fri 12 Mar 10
'V' wrote:lol it gets worse V i am buying a place in the sun and plan to fly from southend. oh and i dont sponge of the tax payer i have a disable child who gets DLA which isnt means tested or taxable you just have to be disabled. As for your British comment i have served with Scot Welsh and gurkha and all are proud to be in the british army serving the british public. How can you now blame Labour for the loss of britain when a minute ago you blamed the torys. I feel you are a deep seated racist who has a grudge against people with disabilitys as you seem to feel upset they get an allowance from the goverment.
firedog wrote: Poor old "V" has lost the plot again,its about the cuckoos not past P.Ms.Still we can blame Thatcher for bringing in care in the community.It's about a TORY councillor attacking people who disagree with his hack and slash policies. On this board they are mostly supported by our resident trav spokesman southendmechanic. (has a caravan, five kids, has told us he sponges off the taxpayer to support those kids, likes cutting down trees and laying down concrete, definite trav).
'V'
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9:29pm Fri 12 Mar 10
southendmechanic wrote:I see, so you're on here campaigning to have OUR town ruined and concreted over, while all the time planning to leave Britain and live somewhere else.
'V' wrote:lol it gets worse V i am buying a place in the sun and plan to fly from southend. oh and i dont sponge of the tax payer i have a disable child who gets DLA which isnt means tested or taxable you just have to be disabled. As for your British comment i have served with Scot Welsh and gurkha and all are proud to be in the british army serving the british public. How can you now blame Labour for the loss of britain when a minute ago you blamed the torys. I feel you are a deep seated racist who has a grudge against people with disabilitys as you seem to feel upset they get an allowance from the goverment.
firedog wrote: Poor old "V" has lost the plot again,its about the cuckoos not past P.Ms.Still we can blame Thatcher for bringing in care in the community.It's about a TORY councillor attacking people who disagree with his hack and slash policies. On this board they are mostly supported by our resident trav spokesman southendmechanic. (has a caravan, five kids, has told us he sponges off the taxpayer to support those kids, likes cutting down trees and laying down concrete, definite trav).
You stinking NIMBY hypocrite.
southendmechanic
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9:31pm Fri 12 Mar 10
Southend Family Man wrote:like it or not tree fella are a very respected company who DO know about trees and dont just guess like SKIPP do into the health of trees.
Tree Fella's main income and major contracts come from SBC, Hardly an independant Expert! More a financially involved company. As stated, the trees in question are of the best in health and irreplaceable in 3 generations of human lifespan. Whats next? Chainsaws in the night? This is clearly wrong and immoral, whatever SBC propoganda you may spout will not change that fact. An extra lane will make NO difference to the traffic flow as the other bottlenecks will still be there.
3 of the trees to be removed are diseased and would have been removed with or without the road changes.
A public enquiry agreed that changed where needed to priory crescent and traffic flows and surveys have shown for a long time that this is a spot that needs sorting.
The changes will also serve the soon to be built industrial estate prittlebrook which is to be built on the previous industial site of EKCO .
If the council did bring in another expert to look at the trees SKIPP and others would only say that they were wasting money again, which indead they would be as competent tree surgeons have already identified problems with these 3 trees and others in the town.
I was in warrington in the week and several mature trees there had been cut down due to poor health so this isnt a local thing.
southendmechanic
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9:35pm Fri 12 Mar 10
'V' wrote:no i am only looking for a hoiliday home so i can trade the static home i have in clacton in. with the airport i should be able to get cheap flights out locally. i am just looking at the moment but things are looking good.
southendmechanic wrote:I see, so you're on here campaigning to have OUR town ruined and concreted over, while all the time planning to leave Britain and live somewhere else. You stinking NIMBY hypocrite.'V' wrote:lol it gets worse V i am buying a place in the sun and plan to fly from southend. oh and i dont sponge of the tax payer i have a disable child who gets DLA which isnt means tested or taxable you just have to be disabled. As for your British comment i have served with Scot Welsh and gurkha and all are proud to be in the british army serving the british public. How can you now blame Labour for the loss of britain when a minute ago you blamed the torys. I feel you are a deep seated racist who has a grudge against people with disabilitys as you seem to feel upset they get an allowance from the goverment.firedog wrote: Poor old "V" has lost the plot again,its about the cuckoos not past P.Ms.Still we can blame Thatcher for bringing in care in the community.It's about a TORY councillor attacking people who disagree with his hack and slash policies. On this board they are mostly supported by our resident trav spokesman southendmechanic. (has a caravan, five kids, has told us he sponges off the taxpayer to support those kids, likes cutting down trees and laying down concrete, definite trav).
woodsman
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10:45pm Fri 12 Mar 10
The Star
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11:19pm Fri 12 Mar 10
Max Impact
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11:30pm Fri 12 Mar 10
Bet you would be down the police station quicker than the blink of an eye.
Your clearly not a rational person who looks fully at both sides of the argument before dicideing who is in the right.
Have you actually read the letter on the PPPS website, if not go and read it now.
http://www.ppps.org.
uk/correspondence/Op
en_letter.pdf
clearly it states Cuckoo Corner WILL be widend with an extra lane this is what PPPS/Skipp agreed to and now it is THEM going back on their word not the council.
Get all the facts before making your mind up.
smalrh
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8:01am Sat 13 Mar 10
ukman
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10:44am Sat 13 Mar 10
vanilla ice
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11:04am Sat 13 Mar 10
smalrh wrote:An extra lane, I think you better find out how long this LANE is its no deferent it’s just another play on that other brain numbing expertise of road planners, the two into three lanes at traffic light junctions, then immediately back to two. Even if it did improve it slightly the relief would be short as the council are not concerned about what effect the present congestion has on the locals, only that developers won’t be interested until they get easier access on land east of the bottleneck, then back to square one, I won’t mention that the Airport would add to the congestion because a few people get upset and blow a fuse as they have been told it will absolutely not make the congestion worse as the leaders now best, so I make a promise like the councils that I won’t mention it.
they are trees, they are going to be cut down, what is the big deal, more trees are going to be planted. Does it matter where the saxon king museum will be, It needs to be somewhere where people will go and visit it, and parking is easy. By putting an extra lane in will ease the congestion. Protesters go somewhere else and protest, stop squatting on land that doesnt belong to you.
vanilla ice
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11:32am Sat 13 Mar 10
ukman wrote:I would not move your JCB any day soon as you will need it to form a barricade to stop the bailiffs evicting you and your mate’s caravans from Hovefeilds.
My JCB is waiting for the start to clear up the mess they have made FOC
southendmechanic
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4:14pm Sat 13 Mar 10
vanilla ice wrote:dont worry they can borrow one of my telehandlers with a 4 in 1 bucket that should do the job.
ukman wrote: My JCB is waiting for the start to clear up the mess they have made FOCI would not move your JCB any day soon as you will need it to form a barricade to stop the bailiffs evicting you and your mate’s caravans from Hovefeilds.
I was thinking bout bringing one home and leaving it on the front path just in case.
I was on the camp bling old site and there is still a few pallets and bits of wood that should have been moved if camp bling had kept to their word with the embankment next to the railway still holding signs of their 4 year occupation and trespass on the railway .
vanilla ice
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7:01pm Sat 13 Mar 10
southendmechanic
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8:25pm Sat 13 Mar 10
vanilla ice wrote:have you had a lobotomy or something?? What connection do i or any other posters have with Dale Farm?? And remeber we dont want to talk about arson do we after what happened at camp bling!! Plus i dont have a caravan on my drive because my caravan is 34ft long and 12ft wide and is static on a holiday park in clacton where i pay ground rent and only use it for 10 months of the year as a weekend holiday home.
Was that to use as part of the barricade or if it’s to help to evict the travellers, if so don’t you think that’s going a bit over the top you will start a riot, I hope the telehandlers not sign written as they would only retaliate and go and smash up your caravan up while its parked on your drive then burn your house down, be careful you could end up down at Cuckoo Corner begging for a bed for you and yours for few nights.
BASILBRUSH
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11:26pm Sat 13 Mar 10
This is not about cutting trees a down for the sake of it. The Council have not gone back on their word on this project.
Its written in black and white.
Maybe the council have been keen with the chainsaw with other trees in the conservation areas as someone mentioned somewhere else. . In fact that person (can't find the post) made me look at this whole issue about the trees in Southend from a different angle....BUT not Cuckoo Corner.
You few serial protestors are squatting, and Cuckoo Corner improvements are needed now.
I'm sure the council would love more money to provide the perfect solution, but they don't have it. And after years of delays, they have been given the grant to make improvements. Like most grants, its use it or lose it.
Having read the Council documents, its clear that the 'expert' opinion gives this scheme as best possible with the resources available.
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The squatters at Cloud Cuckoo land will never agree. They will never admit they are in the wrong no matter what is planted or said to them. They are not interested.
I just hope they don't cost 'us' all more money and further delays.
karateman1964
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11:32pm Sat 13 Mar 10
guygrim wrote:Yes Guy I have ..it happened a short time after I moved away..I couldnt believe it when i first saw it..the Council should be thinking about repairing it ...not some plan that probably will resolve nothing..
karateman1964 wrote: Stand your ground campaigners...there was nothing wrong with cliffs when i lft 7 years agoHave you not heard about the landslide?
If you want to solve the traffic problems try dealing with the regular offenders with not Tax Insurance
southendmechanic
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11:33pm Sat 13 Mar 10
southendmechanic
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11:40pm Sat 13 Mar 10
karateman1964 wrote:SPACE MONKEY!! what on earth you on about. have you just finished a week of nights??? The council are repairing it the plan is a new hotel and a museum. As for the traffic problems are you saying the majority of people using priory cresent are in fact driving without documents??
guygrim wrote:Yes Guy I have ..it happened a short time after I moved away..I couldnt believe it when i first saw it..the Council should be thinking about repairing it ...not some plan that probably will resolve nothing.. If you want to solve the traffic problems try dealing with the regular offenders with not Tax Insurancekarateman1964 wrote: Stand your ground campaigners...there was nothing wrong with cliffs when i lft 7 years agoHave you not heard about the landslide?
southendreb
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8:01am Sun 14 Mar 10
smalrh wrote:Just a smallpoint who does the land belong to then
they are trees, they are going to be cut down, what is the big deal, more trees are going to be planted. Does it matter where the saxon king museum will be, It needs to be somewhere where people will go and visit it, and parking is easy. By putting an extra lane in will ease the congestion. Protesters go somewhere else and protest, stop squatting on land that doesnt belong to you.
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karateman1964
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4:24pm Sun 14 Mar 10
southendmechanic wrote:Spacemonkey? is that suppose to mean something Southendmechanic..tr
karateman1964 wrote:SPACE MONKEY!! what on earth you on about. have you just finished a week of nights??? The council are repairing it the plan is a new hotel and a museum. As for the traffic problems are you saying the majority of people using priory cresent are in fact driving without documents??guygrim wrote:Yes Guy I have ..it happened a short time after I moved away..I couldnt believe it when i first saw it..the Council should be thinking about repairing it ...not some plan that probably will resolve nothing.. If you want to solve the traffic problems try dealing with the regular offenders with not Tax Insurancekarateman1964 wrote: Stand your ground campaigners...there was nothing wrong with cliffs when i lft 7 years agoHave you not heard about the landslide?
y reading what i said again I said i moved away 7 years ago ..did I say all drivers were offenders? ..no..so get your story right first
southendmechanic
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5:19pm Sun 14 Mar 10
karateman1964 wrote:space monkey refers to the fact you are so out of touch with the real world.
southendmechanic wrote:Spacemonkey? is that suppose to mean something Southendmechanic..tr y reading what i said again I said i moved away 7 years ago ..did I say all drivers were offenders? ..no..so get your story right firstkarateman1964 wrote:SPACE MONKEY!! what on earth you on about. have you just finished a week of nights??? The council are repairing it the plan is a new hotel and a museum. As for the traffic problems are you saying the majority of people using priory cresent are in fact driving without documents??guygrim wrote:Yes Guy I have ..it happened a short time after I moved away..I couldnt believe it when i first saw it..the Council should be thinking about repairing it ...not some plan that probably will resolve nothing.. If you want to solve the traffic problems try dealing with the regular offenders with not Tax Insurancekarateman1964 wrote: Stand your ground campaigners...there was nothing wrong with cliffs when i lft 7 years agoHave you not heard about the landslide?
You suggested if we wanted to have congestion sorted in southend we should start with the uninsured and untaxed vehicles. Well to sort out the problem at cuckoo corner we have thousands of cars using it daily and how would stopping 1 or 2 cars an hour using this junction help
Southend has ANPR in use all over and this logs and checks all cars entering and leaving southend, it also serves to have these cars removed from the road which has greatly reduced the number of uninsured and untaxed vehicles. Most stops created from ANPR are due to the PNC database flagging vehicles used by known criminals and intel which is stored. What is needed are changes to the road layout in the area as identified several years ago by a public enquiry and long before the airport was being restored to a good passenger terminal.
vanilla ice
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7:37pm Sun 14 Mar 10
southendmechanic wrote:Read your post again you don’t make it clear were your big boys machine was going to be deployed and I could not resist the Mickey take but I thought you would see that you but you obviously you didn’t, you ought to find a different occupation them petrol fumes seem to be getting to be an addiction and the you next thing you know your be snorting aviation fuel.
vanilla ice wrote:have you had a lobotomy or something?? What connection do i or any other posters have with Dale Farm?? And remeber we dont want to talk about arson do we after what happened at camp bling!! Plus i dont have a caravan on my drive because my caravan is 34ft long and 12ft wide and is static on a holiday park in clacton where i pay ground rent and only use it for 10 months of the year as a weekend holiday home.
Was that to use as part of the barricade or if it’s to help to evict the travellers, if so don’t you think that’s going a bit over the top you will start a riot, I hope the telehandlers not sign written as they would only retaliate and go and smash up your caravan up while its parked on your drive then burn your house down, be careful you could end up down at Cuckoo Corner begging for a bed for you and yours for few nights.
karateman1964
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10:18pm Sun 14 Mar 10
res more than 1 or 2 cars that go through that area..unless you know better and have direct information from Essex Police H.Q.
Secondly that route was fine for 38 years when I was living there..I think your living on cloud 9 mate
southendmechanic
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6:39am Mon 15 Mar 10
vanilla ice wrote:As the post is attached to a new story about priory crescent and that is where my front path is it strikes me that you are the one off subject (again)
southendmechanic wrote:Read your post again you don’t make it clear were your big boys machine was going to be deployed and I could not resist the Mickey take but I thought you would see that you but you obviously you didn’t, you ought to find a different occupation them petrol fumes seem to be getting to be an addiction and the you next thing you know your be snorting aviation fuel.vanilla ice wrote: Was that to use as part of the barricade or if it’s to help to evict the travellers, if so don’t you think that’s going a bit over the top you will start a riot, I hope the telehandlers not sign written as they would only retaliate and go and smash up your caravan up while its parked on your drive then burn your house down, be careful you could end up down at Cuckoo Corner begging for a bed for you and yours for few nights.have you had a lobotomy or something?? What connection do i or any other posters have with Dale Farm?? And remeber we dont want to talk about arson do we after what happened at camp bling!! Plus i dont have a caravan on my drive because my caravan is 34ft long and 12ft wide and is static on a holiday park in clacton where i pay ground rent and only use it for 10 months of the year as a weekend holiday home.
but i have been hanging around a couple of airports lately,with 2 of my jcb telehandlers being at the local one lately (and they are not sign written with my company due to cross hire)
southendmechanic
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6:52am Mon 15 Mar 10
karateman1964 wrote:pmsl has anyone told you that shoebury and thorpe bay (as well as large parts of southend) have been develpoed in those 38 years so that road is being asked to do more than it can.
First of all southenmechanic,,the res more than 1 or 2 cars that go through that area..unless you know better and have direct information from Essex Police H.Q. Secondly that route was fine for 38 years when I was living there..I think your living on cloud 9 mate
We could go on about uninsure cars if we like but as that isnt the council duty to sort and isnt actually the issue here as stated southend has had the amount reduced due to ANPR and how do you know there are more than 2 cars using that road without insurance? Do YOU have a confession towards knowing of friends or family using that road without documents?? The road was identified as needing change in a public consultation a few years ago and the changes have been needed way before the first road improvements attempted 9 years ago. Was your move to poole a semi retirment as it seems you still cant grasp that your statement of sorting uninsured and untaxed vehicles would sort out the traffic problems in southend and Priory crescent was not only pointless but extreamly insulting to those who do use that road and sit in traffic everyday for excessive and wasteful time now and not 7 years ago or even 38.
southendmechanic
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6:52am Mon 15 Mar 10
karateman1964 wrote:pmsl has anyone told you that shoebury and thorpe bay (as well as large parts of southend) have been develpoed in those 38 years so that road is being asked to do more than it can.
First of all southenmechanic,,the res more than 1 or 2 cars that go through that area..unless you know better and have direct information from Essex Police H.Q. Secondly that route was fine for 38 years when I was living there..I think your living on cloud 9 mate
We could go on about uninsure cars if we like but as that isnt the council duty to sort and isnt actually the issue here as stated southend has had the amount reduced due to ANPR and how do you know there are more than 2 cars using that road without insurance? Do YOU have a confession towards knowing of friends or family using that road without documents?? The road was identified as needing change in a public consultation a few years ago and the changes have been needed way before the first road improvements attempted 9 years ago. Was your move to poole a semi retirment as it seems you still cant grasp that your statement of sorting uninsured and untaxed vehicles would sort out the traffic problems in southend and Priory crescent was not only pointless but extreamly insulting to those who do use that road and sit in traffic everyday for excessive and wasteful time now and not 7 years ago or even 38.
karateman1964
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7:28am Mon 15 Mar 10
southendmechanic wrote:Southendmechanic..my move to Poole is none of your business..so keep it that way..you dont read the quote properly and your trying pathetic little insults..which are not working.
karateman1964 wrote: First of all southenmechanic,,the res more than 1 or 2 cars that go through that area..unless you know better and have direct information from Essex Police H.Q. Secondly that route was fine for 38 years when I was living there..I think your living on cloud 9 matepmsl has anyone told you that shoebury and thorpe bay (as well as large parts of southend) have been develpoed in those 38 years so that road is being asked to do more than it can. We could go on about uninsure cars if we like but as that isnt the council duty to sort and isnt actually the issue here as stated southend has had the amount reduced due to ANPR and how do you know there are more than 2 cars using that road without insurance? Do YOU have a confession towards knowing of friends or family using that road without documents?? The road was identified as needing change in a public consultation a few years ago and the changes have been needed way before the first road improvements attempted 9 years ago. Was your move to poole a semi retirment as it seems you still cant grasp that your statement of sorting uninsured and untaxed vehicles would sort out the traffic problems in southend and Priory crescent was not only pointless but extreamly insulting to those who do use that road and sit in traffic everyday for excessive and wasteful time now and not 7 years ago or even 38.
Quite frankly Southendmechanic ive seen you doing this to a lot of people on here..you must think your some sort of authorty on every subject this Newspaper prints.
So just wind you neck in ..your showing yourself up
Soozie
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7:34am Mon 15 Mar 10
he thinks he is a pretty important man about town, but you just have to read his never ending blathering on, to realise he is just a local plonker.
He is nothing more than a greasmonkey who admits to being a weekend pikey who hides behind one of his kids to jusify mooching off the state.
He also seems to have an abnormal passion for Anna Waite.
Best to ignore him….
karateman1964
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8:28am Mon 15 Mar 10
Soozie wrote:Lol Soozie yeah I worked that out myself mate
karateman1964 - ignore southendmechanic.... he thinks he is a pretty important man about town, but you just have to read his never ending blathering on, to realise he is just a local plonker. He is nothing more than a greasmonkey who admits to being a weekend pikey who hides behind one of his kids to jusify mooching off the state. He also seems to have an abnormal passion for Anna Waite. Best to ignore him….
southendmechanic
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10:15am Mon 15 Mar 10
karateman1964 wrote:wind your neck in lol i havent heard that since my army days and then it was only used by CR*P HATS!!
southendmechanic wrote:Southendmechanic..my move to Poole is none of your business..so keep it that way..you dont read the quote properly and your trying pathetic little insults..which are not working. Quite frankly Southendmechanic ive seen you doing this to a lot of people on here..you must think your some sort of authorty on every subject this Newspaper prints. So just wind you neck in ..your showing yourself upkarateman1964 wrote: First of all southenmechanic,,the res more than 1 or 2 cars that go through that area..unless you know better and have direct information from Essex Police H.Q. Secondly that route was fine for 38 years when I was living there..I think your living on cloud 9 matepmsl has anyone told you that shoebury and thorpe bay (as well as large parts of southend) have been develpoed in those 38 years so that road is being asked to do more than it can. We could go on about uninsure cars if we like but as that isnt the council duty to sort and isnt actually the issue here as stated southend has had the amount reduced due to ANPR and how do you know there are more than 2 cars using that road without insurance? Do YOU have a confession towards knowing of friends or family using that road without documents?? The road was identified as needing change in a public consultation a few years ago and the changes have been needed way before the first road improvements attempted 9 years ago. Was your move to poole a semi retirment as it seems you still cant grasp that your statement of sorting uninsured and untaxed vehicles would sort out the traffic problems in southend and Priory crescent was not only pointless but extreamly insulting to those who do use that road and sit in traffic everyday for excessive and wasteful time now and not 7 years ago or even 38.
I only have posted about this subject old sir so cant see how i can comment on every subject unlike our soozie who seems to be on every subject.
Would you not have a problem with a handful of people camped out in your road?? we went through 4 years of them at camp bling and now the same small handful camp the other end.
BASILBRUSH
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10:41am Mon 15 Mar 10
Low Soozie..... Low.
Can we stop bringing southendmechanics kids into this and stick to talking about cloud Cuckooland?
BASILBRUSH
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10:52am Mon 15 Mar 10
Now I don't pretend (like the antis would) that it represents everyone as its a fairly specialist site about whats going on in the council. But it still gives an indication of feeling.
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The protestors will no doubt dismiss this as it hasn't gone in their favour.
Soozie
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11:05am Mon 15 Mar 10
Perhaps you should tell the pikey greaseball to mind his P&Q's eh?
DannyK86
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11:24am Mon 15 Mar 10
SKIPP go home, you don't speak for Southend!
BASILBRUSH
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11:30am Mon 15 Mar 10
Soozie wrote:I was refering to both sides.
Well Basil he seems to do the same to almost everyone who does not agree with him.
Perhaps you should tell the pikey greaseball to mind his P&Q's eh?
Banter or slating between adults is one thing. I don't see why kids or benefits they receive should be brought into this.
Soozie
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11:35am Mon 15 Mar 10
southendmechanic
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12:52pm Mon 15 Mar 10
Soozie wrote:soozie you are the one who brought up about benefits which is when i told you what i get and why. If you cant understand that anyone in this country with a disability can and should get DLA (or AA for ovr 65's) and that they are more than entitled to it no matter their background race or savings then you are the one with the problem. YOU and V are the only ones who keep mentioning my caravan which is a legal holiday home in clacton which i use for my disabled 8 year old son to stimulate him as told to by Great ormond street hospital.
Basil if you check back on further threads with the very same subject, he opened himself up ridicule for it by beaking off about the caravan and benefits etc.
Soozie
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1:08pm Mon 15 Mar 10
BASILBRUSH
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1:09pm Mon 15 Mar 10
Semi mature shrubs have been planted in their place.
I thank you.
southendmechanic
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1:29pm Mon 15 Mar 10
These people do not speak for the people of southend
out of intrest did you see the story basil about building houses in rochford? the people are protesting and did you see how many locals they had there? more than 50 and not one of them had a tent
DannyK86
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2:33pm Mon 15 Mar 10
Soozie
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2:49pm Mon 15 Mar 10
southendmechanic
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3:02pm Mon 15 Mar 10
You are the one soozie who kept going on about me receiving benefit even though you know what i get this for. All it shows is your racist veiws towards people less fortunate than you and their or familys disability.
This thread is about cuckoo corner and the protesters who have latched onto it. yours and V's personal attacks on many diffrent posters on thi and other subjects just goes to show your narrow mindedness and racist veiws.
DannyK86
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3:08pm Mon 15 Mar 10
Soozie wrote:Scroll up, I delivered an attack on SKIPP spokeswoman patsy link, who seems to think she is uniquely qualified to dictate where museums should be. But clearly you were too busy getting personal with Mr Mechanic to notice!
DannyK86 - give it up already. The greasemonkey has brought it all on himself. NO one is targetting anyones disabled child - Be careful of what you accuse people of.As for keeping it on target, I don't recall you posting anything worthy in here......hmmm?
Soozie
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3:16pm Mon 15 Mar 10
southendmechanic
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3:24pm Mon 15 Mar 10
Soozie
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3:30pm Mon 15 Mar 10
PS - I never voted for that woman.
southendmechanic
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3:34pm Mon 15 Mar 10
So where are these racist posts i am meant to have written???
If you actually read the text in this forum about the road you would see most people on here agree that the protesters should go. But like Skipp you alway avoid the actual subject or question asked if its based on untruths
Soozie
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3:39pm Mon 15 Mar 10
The protesters don't bother me at all. I think they are doing what they think is right and more power to them. As long as they aren't hurting anyone, what is the harm.
Now don't you have 5 kids to look after?
southendmechanic
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3:49pm Mon 15 Mar 10
Southend people voted for her and she won with a majority vote.
You cant just dish power out to members of the public with out the public voting them so the protesters only power is that as one of the voters. now last time i looked that involved putting a small cross in a small box not camping on a roundabout and slowly filling a small peice of land with more junk than steptoes back yard.
We have several protests going on at the moment one for canvey pool,one over houses being built in rochford,and one over the running of southend football club. none of these have camped on public land or threatened to obstruct people going about their work so why is it Skipp feel the need to? well noone can answer that one.
Oh and once again i called you a liar because you still have not posted about the racist comments i have made so come on lets see them theres a good girl
Soozie
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7:34pm Mon 15 Mar 10
southendmechanic wrote:Funny how you get a bit ruder slowly but surely.
look little miss liar she was VOTED in not by her mates or conseratives but the people of southend. Southend people voted for her and she won with a majority vote. You cant just dish power out to members of the public with out the public voting them so the protesters only power is that as one of the voters. now last time i looked that involved putting a small cross in a small box not camping on a roundabout and slowly filling a small peice of land with more junk than steptoes back yard. We have several protests going on at the moment one for canvey pool,one over houses being built in rochford,and one over the running of southend football club. none of these have camped on public land or threatened to obstruct people going about their work so why is it Skipp feel the need to? well noone can answer that one. Oh and once again i called you a liar because you still have not posted about the racist comments i have made so come on lets see them theres a good girl
Anna Waite got in through the backdoor and you know it you plonker.
Keep kissing her arse, when she is turfed in the next election, perhaps you can both sit and discuss where you went wrong.
Shame that you want to be the man about town, but can't quite cut it eh?
Go forth in caravan pikey man!
LOL
southendmechanic
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8:04pm Mon 15 Mar 10
you just sound like a sore loser
2 questions for you
1/how can you call being voted in a back door??
2/where are these racist posts i wrote??
nitecard
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8:05pm Mon 15 Mar 10
It is a well known fact that when a road is 'improved' it is used more - net result? well you work it out.....
Soozie
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6:51am Tue 16 Mar 10
southendmechanic
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7:45am Tue 16 Mar 10
Soozie
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7:55am Tue 16 Mar 10
Not such a squeaky clean guy you make yourself out to be eh? Learn proper English pikey. roots are showing.
southendmechanic
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9:42am Tue 16 Mar 10
Soozie
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10:22am Tue 16 Mar 10
Pikey.
southendmechanic
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11:46am Tue 16 Mar 10
Soozie
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11:54am Tue 16 Mar 10
Enjoy the walk old man, you'll probably need a lot more than a walk cosidering how much time you spend on your butt.
him
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4:00pm Fri 26 Mar 10
The Star wrote:because you ****....sbc employ tree fella to fell the trees that sbc ask them to...tree fella have no say..!
If SBC employed such trained arborists, can someome explain to me why they removed many of the healthy trees from the former Camp Bling and left the diseased ones behind?
him
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4:05pm Fri 26 Mar 10
woodsman wrote:different types of tree...hell if you were educated you might think about that..!
As mentioned he contradicts himself. One minute the tree removal did not cause teh land slip then he says trees may stabalise thecliffs. He also says this may take 50 years so this idicates a tree takes 50yrs to mature, so why a few days ago did they say the ones they are planting will be mature in 12/13 years?
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BASILBRUSH says...
5:07pm Fri 12 Mar 10
Well perhaps if you stopped standing in the way of all progress in this town, the 'Kiss me quick" image maybe updated.
Patsy Link, what exactly do you protestors stand for? The reasons are becoming increasingly blurred.
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SBC, stop mucking about. Kick these serial protestors off the public land.
It has been shown that you can't deal with them rationally.