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NERC Challenge part 2

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JeepRikk:
I emailed my MP a while back and got a letter saying he would take it further and let me know.
Today I got a letter back from him with one from Barry Gardiner MP minister of biodiversity,landscape and rural affairs.
I'll scan the pages in and pop them on my site for people to look at but it basicly says, it's done and defra are keen to increase access to area's already available.
Which to me means things like forests/country parks...woopee do I can now get to the carpark easier so I can look at the trees from there.

I'm going to reply and make it bluntly obvious that it's not enough.

edit..
here is the letter if you want to read,

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      ..........Rikk

Eeyore:

--- Quote from: "Disco200TDiDan" ---I know, but lets face it, as the main groups concerned and affected (4x4 owners and drivers) what kind of a resistance did we put up?  None of the major organisations who represent us put much into it, otherwise we wouldnt be where we are now.
--- End quote ---


To answer your question; many people trying to defend the rights of MPV users in these 'organisations', were putting in forty plus hours a week on top of working for a living.

They would probably ask another question. What did you do at the time?  :wink:

They would also probably ask - how much worse could it have been if they hadn't put that effort in?  :shock:

Cheers
 8)
Eeyore

Rangie3.0LtrDan:
Fair comment eeyore, where was the work, where did we see it?  There was nothing i could do from this angle until the bill was in force.  

Many people offered to do such things as blockades, protests etc..... but then the usual people turned round and said it was pointless.

What we need to do now is get our voice heard.  Its not been heard yet, even the bit that Thrasher did has been forgotten.  What we need is more of that kind of stuff.  We need to have our cause on the news.  We do need to get noticed and in order to do that there needs to be a hierachy and a good structure.  There is none of that currently cos no-one is working together.

discograham:
If the only way ahead is to draw attention through direct action.. which I do believe it has now come to.. then lets do it...  If one gets rollercoastered when doing things properly then lets have some improper behavior and rattle a few cages.... and before anyone says that would show the wrong image..fine.. what do you want to do ? keep the nice decent image but lose out all around.. ? :shock:

Rangie3.0LtrDan:
Well what we need is some serious action on our part, but within the laws of the land.  Last i checked having a demonstration was still legal.

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