mona
The Glory Game
I've voted. I was told by mrs mona that it was just as well that I missed the prog as I could have got angry. Did some ****bag bring out the old lie about office development?
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Vote for Falmer in Radio Four Straw Poll
- Thread starter Lord Bracknell
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Lady Bracknell
Handbag at Dawn
Yes! He was the same feckwit who suggested losing the last two games was a justifiable reason for not getting Falmer!
Unfortunately they edited out the bit when I said "rubbish", rather loudly in response!
Unfortunately they edited out the bit when I said "rubbish", rather loudly in response!
Lord Bracknell
On fire
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His exact words ...
"While we're talking about Brighton and Hove Albion, as someone who's fought long and hard for protecting the South Downs and making it a National Park, I actually have to say that there are as many people in Brighton and Hove who are opposing a football stadium.
Can I then just move on and say that this is actually a commercial development? It is nothing to do with a football stadium. It's to do with 150,000 square feet of office space first of all, about the next 150,000 square feet of office space that they will need to use to put into this football stadium to make it pay. Because twenty odd games of football a year for a club that has already lost two games this season ...
[Chairman] ... Right. OK, that's enough football league reporting ..."
This is, of course, just typical of the lies that our opponents are peddling.
"While we're talking about Brighton and Hove Albion, as someone who's fought long and hard for protecting the South Downs and making it a National Park, I actually have to say that there are as many people in Brighton and Hove who are opposing a football stadium.
Can I then just move on and say that this is actually a commercial development? It is nothing to do with a football stadium. It's to do with 150,000 square feet of office space first of all, about the next 150,000 square feet of office space that they will need to use to put into this football stadium to make it pay. Because twenty odd games of football a year for a club that has already lost two games this season ...
[Chairman] ... Right. OK, that's enough football league reporting ..."
This is, of course, just typical of the lies that our opponents are peddling.
Could have stuck to sheep. What are these farmers doing ploughing up the downs 
Wrecking all the downland sites, with their excessive use of fertilisers. Grazing cows on "improved" lands. Surplus low quality farmland on the edge of town. Might have got a debate going
Can't put sheep in an urban area cause all the pet dogs will chase them. Exactly !
PS: Somebody trying to pull the wool over my/our eyes?
Wrecking all the downland sites, with their excessive use of fertilisers. Grazing cows on "improved" lands. Surplus low quality farmland on the edge of town. Might have got a debate going Can't put sheep in an urban area cause all the pet dogs will chase them. Exactly !
PS: Somebody trying to pull the wool over my/our eyes?
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dougdeep
New member
Sorted.
Seaside Wizard
New member
Voted 4 times yesterday. My wife and 2 kids always follow whatever I say when it come to football. Something about a quiet life.
Does this "farmer giles" (cockney for piles.....ie pain in the arse) need taking out. My 5 year old (ginger Ninja) son has been going to Karate for 6 months now and I'm fed up with getting kicked in the nuts. This farmer bloke might like having a couple of extra acres!
BensGrandad
New member
As I do not listen to Radio 4 could somebody post the result of the poll when it is known.
Curious Orange
Punxsatawney Phil
BensGrandad said:
I've just started listening to the recording of the second programme on the internet. They started by saying that the motion was currently being defeated, not suprising really given the emotive nature of the topic (I don't think the Falmer site comes under the remit of the motion being neither green nor pleasant). However there was a very nice e-mail pointing out the sustainable transport links being proposed for Falmer and saying it should be a benchmark for future developments (it was sent from Paisley, so may have been one of the BHAlba boys).
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Curious Orange
Punxsatawney Phil
The motion was defeated by 3 to 1, I assume that is a ratio.
Lord Bracknell
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No great issue over the result. Both the phone-in and the main programme seemed to be hi-jacked by another question - "Just because it's a form of green energy, should we allow wind farms to be built all over the place?"
The people said "No".
Falmer was a sideshow. I'm satisfied that we won that part of the argument convincingly.
The people said "No".
Falmer was a sideshow. I'm satisfied that we won that part of the argument convincingly.
fatbadger
New member
Curious Orange said:
Sounds like Scotjem - who did indeed make this very point earlier on in this thread.
I really do think that this is a point that should be pushed. Given the sustainable transport plan incorporated into the Falmer proposal, the issue of precedent could count very strongly in our favour. I hope that the DPM's office has recognised this - it could be a valuable tool for them in controlling future, less sustainable, developments. Plus I support that aspect of the project in principle. As a public transport user myself, the growth of out-of-town football grounds that aren't easy to get to without a car is really beginning to piss me off.
Storer68
New member
The whole programme seemed to a waste of space given that the twat of a presenter hadn't done any research at all.
Quote: "Is it (the football stadium) a contraversial issue?"
Quote: "Is it (the football stadium) a contraversial issue?"