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Posted on: Aug 4 2011, 05:46 PM |
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QUOTE (HeatherW @ Aug 4 2011, 06:40 PM) I will leave you to it. You do have a point though. By continuing will only make me as bad as you. Bye! You are right there. QUOTE (HeatherW @ Aug 4 2011, 06:40 PM) You Billy1, GMR and a few others deserve each other. Next time you see him, tell GMR he should fight his own battles. |
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Forum: Newbury News
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Posted on: Aug 4 2011, 05:23 PM |
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QUOTE (HeatherW @ Aug 4 2011, 06:14 PM) On the edge I agree with your comments about building a new purpose built football pitch. We should ask ourselves whether we want a new modern Newbury or make do with what we have got. With a new shopping mall being built in the town centre and extra housing near the race course (I believe) I think we should be proud of our town and look at other areas that probably need refurbishing in and around Newbury. A good post On the edge.
It is a pity others used this thread to play games and settle old scores. GMR started it off with his pointless “comments” about councils and “thoughts“. If that was not bad enough people like Billy1, somebody who actually works for the council, coming in with pointless comments such as “all this is doing is feeding you desire to divert a thread into the realms of pointless drivel” and doing exactly the same with his own “pointless drivel”. Then the Iommi activates’ his other names (Andy Capp and Rusty Bullet) to jump in and add his own brand of drivel while attacking GMR. No doubt GMR will respond to create an ever ending cycle of drivel. If people find certain comments unhelpful or “drivel” you do not add you own drivel to pour fuel on to the fire. Of course it was not just those that I mentioned that helped to contribute to the destruction of this thread but the ones I mentioned are the worse offenders on this forum.
I do not know what Iommi does and have only read what GMR has done, or supposed to have done (Parish council, according to Bill1) but I do know that Billy1 and User23 work for the WBC and Billy1’s behaviour questions the ability of that council to employ well adjusted and competent people.
I hope others read this forum and see how petty people can be. Grow up or find a forum that caters for such mentality. Let us get back to the main topic please. What a load of pious rubbish. If the conduct of certain people irritated you, what are you doing posting this waffle? Why don't you take a leaf out you own book and stow it? GMR made rude comments about people and those people are entitled reply. We have all realised what a plonker GMR is, and have all shut up, now you throw your 2p in again and have stirred it up again. "If people find certain comments unhelpful or “drivel” you do not add you own drivel to pour fuel on to the fire." What a hypocrite you are. PS...... Rusty Bullet and Andy Capp are nothing to do with me, other than I know who Andy Capp is in person. I haven't the foggiest who Rusty Bullet is. |
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Forum: Newbury News
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Posted on: Feb 22 2011, 12:08 AM |
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I got a reply...
'Think you for contacting me about alcohol taxation and, specifically, Progressive Beer Duty (PBD). I can assure you that, in the run-up to the Budget, Ministers will bear in mind the broader points you make.
As you may know, the Government has pledged a wider review of alcohol taxation and pricing. Ministers are very clear that binge drinking must be tackled in a way that does not unfairly penalise responsible drinkers, pubs and local industry. I know that Ministers are aware of the PBD issue, not least because it has been mentioned in a number of submissions to the review.
More broadly, I share your desire to secure the future of the Great British Pub and support the Chancellor’s recent decision to reverse the last Government’s increase in cider duty of ten per cent above inflation and to avoid increasing alcohol duty over and above the planned increase inherited from the previous administration.
The Government is also committed to banning the sake of alcohol at below cost price. Ministers intend to introduce a new additional duty on beers over 7.5 per cent alcohol by volume (abv) in strength. Changes will also be made to introduce a reduced rate of duty on beers produced at an alcoholic strength of 2.8 per cent or below.
These measures will tackle the excessive consumption of alcohol – which fuels much anti-social behaviour – without unduly penalising pubs or responsible drinkers.' |
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Forum: Random Rants
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Posted on: Feb 18 2011, 07:16 PM |
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QUOTE (user23 @ Feb 18 2011, 07:09 PM) I'm starting to think you're beyond help. Who put the CCTV in, in the first place? What difference does that make? You have been critical of CCTV in general (with little credible evidence to support your argument) but you have not been critical of the council for installing it, or the way they have installed it. That is what I mean by being critical. And even if you have been critical, 'one swallow doesn't make a summer'. |
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Forum: Newbury News
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Posted on: Feb 18 2011, 06:29 PM |
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QUOTE (user23 @ Feb 18 2011, 05:39 PM) Which would make you an anti-West Berkshire Council / Richard Garvie apologist. I am to a degree; although I'm not strictly anti-council, but I object to some of the things they do; which is only normal. I don't come on here seeking merely to denigrate anything they might do or say simply because they are the council. I haven't wholly agreed with Richard Garvie in the past either. QUOTE (user23 @ Feb 18 2011, 05:39 PM) Of course what you say isn't true as my personal opinion on CCTV differs somewhat from West Berkshire Council, whereas yours seems to be roughly the same as theirs. Having a different opinion to that of the council doesn't negate you being an apologist for them. I haven't heard you criticise the council for their endorsement of the CCTV system, nor the way they have handled both the migration or the PR for the migration. Indeed, some cynics might say that the council's performance over the CCTV system might be construed as being anti-CCTV anyway. |
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Forum: Newbury News
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