Now let's ban fishing

[Peter Waller]

Peter Sharpe:

And me

Thankyou Peter! You are a true gentleman.

 

Cranfield is supportive of the CA, as he is entitled to be. We, on the other hand, are not.

[miasma]

....And me too.....

[Cranfield]

Peter, a correction.

 

I am not a member of the CA, but I am prepared to believe that "the enemy of my enemy, is my friend".

 

I wrote to the EA in support of livebaiting in the Lake District, not because I wanted to fish there using that method.

 

I objected to the ban on handguns, not because I want to own one.

 

I will be marching in the Freedom March, not because I want to go foxhunting.

 

When they come after Angling, I will write letters and I will march.

 

I do believe in certain basic freedoms and I am fed up with their general errosion.

[poledark]

Well you can't say "fairer than that", good on yer, Cranfield.

 

Look out for an AN T shirt,

 

Den

[Peter Sharpe]

"I am not a member of the CA, but I am prepared to believe that "the enemy of my enemy, is my friend"."

That includes the BNP then?

[Cranfield]

Peter, The March is organised by the Countryside Alliance, anyone can attend, even you and the BNP.

 

My enemy/friend comment referred to the CA not the BNP, as you well know.

[Peter Sharpe]

"My enemy/friend comment referred to the CA not the BNP, as you well know."

 

Just as I thought, the C.A. is an anti-Labour organisation rather than pro-countryside lobby that it pretends to be.

[Cranfield]

I,m usually pretty good at doing the cryptic clues in the crosswords, but your little comment there, has flown over my head.

 

Are you suggesting that, as I am not a member of the Countryside Alliance or the British National Party, I am anti Labour ? :confused:

[DMCA]

Have I missed something here? What's with the BNP? Is the idea that Cranfield is some sort of uber-Tory whose very presence at the march damns the CA to being dismissed as reverse class warmongers? Or is it something more sinister?

Can't work it out... :confused:

 

(Clearly Cranfield's post and mine arrived at the same time!)

 

[ 17. September 2002, 08:09 PM: Message edited by: DMCA ]

[Peter Waller]

Cranfield, basically you and I agree on most issues. However I don't see the CA as an enemy of my enemy, therefore my friend. I see it as a body that is using 'angling' very cynically to its own ends. Therefore I see the CA as an enemy. Your other points, however, are spot on.

 

Where we differ is that I am not anti-Labour! I admit to voting Labour as a means of voting against Conservatives. In other words, at the moment, I'm anti-Conservative. So, from that point of view, we are miles apart, for the time being!