I agree, we shouldn't use ad hominem attacks on the small-minded, attention-seeking sexist idiot.padfield wrote: ad hominem attacks are generally bad argument
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I agree, we shouldn't use ad hominem attacks on the small-minded, attention-seeking sexist idiot.padfield wrote: ad hominem attacks are generally bad argument
Indeed he is, and Mr Foster's e-mail address is, I suspect, a private one which he does not wish to see emblazoned on any public website, let alone that of a member of parliament.Lee Hurrell wrote:And he is STILL publishing private contact details...johnv wrote:I see he has had another go today at BC and conservationists in general.
http://www.liddellgrainger.org.uk/ian/M ... G2012.html
How do you mean?Jack Harrison wrote: Might L-G be ill perhaps?
Don't hold your breath; his ailment is chronic. Here's an April 2010 Grauniad article about his outpourings and another, from politicalscrapbook.net in June 2010, to more puerility.Jack Harrison wrote:Might L-G be ill perhaps? If that is so, then he would have my sympathy and I would take back this and earlier comments I have made.
Perhaps Jack has a point after all. The quote I reproduce is taken from the Guardian article. I needn't make any comment as the text speaks for itself:Pawpawsaurus wrote:Don't hold your breath; his ailment is chronic. Here's an April 2010 Grauniad article about his outpourings and another, from politicalscrapbook.net in June 2010, to more puerility.Jack Harrison wrote:Might L-G be ill perhaps? If that is so, then he would have my sympathy and I would take back this and earlier comments I have made.
It seems that Cameron is already aware of him.
Paul
I have just saw this thread, not caught up much with what is going on but I signed it, although I have never been there or know much about this area, felt it necessary to help try and save it.Sadly this dishonest and reprehensible fool is representing W. Somerset, where the local Council (probably with his backing) are planning to sell off one of the finest landscape and wildlife areas in the region.
I got the following from 38 Degrees (theyt co-ordinated much of the campaign against the sale of the Forestry land last year.
I visit the Quantocks regularly, and they are beautiful area. It woulod be sad to see it become a mono-culture desert like so much of the once amazing South West.
Sign the on line petition please!!!
Jack,Jack Harrison wrote:So, it looks possible that L-G might just have Tourette's Syndrome, Jack
I'm not a medic so have no expertise. But L-G has been behaving/writing so strangely that I simply wonder if he might have a psychological problems. That "helpful link" to Tourette's mentioned earlier:Jack,are you serious?
You bring up some good points about his motivation.hilary wrote: But why B.C. in particular? Maybe the reponse to the sell off of Forestry Commision land made him resign himself to write off the populace as a nation of tree huggers. But with the prospect of the Quantocks unrolling before his £££eyes I can't help the suspicion he's thinking who cares about 'unimproved pasture', after all it can look a bit unkempt to some eyes.
You may well have put your finger on it there.johnv wrote: Looking at his website and others I notice he is strongly in favour of hunting.
Which brings me back to the proposed Quantocks land sell off by Somerset County Council.
One of my friends was a hunt-sab and mentioned that these areas owned by the council were off limits to the hunt and many a deer was able to escape into them from either direction. The hunts hated this.
• Finally, to remember in your prayers, Ian Liddell-Grainger, the Conservative member for Bridgwater and West Somerset. Something seems to be troubling him. The MP has been using the might of his office to attack Jenny Plackett. What special evil does she represent? Let us out her. She is the project officer for the charity Butterfly Conservation, and heads its Two Moors Threatened Butterfly project.
• Butterfly Conservation hopes for an £18,000 grant from the Exmoor National Park partnership fund. Liddell-Grainger is agin it. And that's his right. But having attacked the group (president: Sir David Attenborough) in his local paper, the MP turned to his website to post a few unfunny funnies – a recipe for "Butterfly Fancier Pie" – and to mount a bizarre verbal and pictorial personal attack on Jenny Plackett, or "Cost-a-Plackett", as he calls her. For anyone minded to join in the witless abuse, the Tory reproduces her direct number. He's been asked to desist but he won't. It's all quite sad really. The Tories may or may not be the nasty party these days, but he certainly seems a pretty nasty MP.
Well I can't quite endorse that. However, while I would certainly wish L-G a speedy recovery (of his senses and health if that is where the problem is), being non-religious, I can hardly offer prayers!Finally, to remember in your prayers, Ian Liddell-Grainger
I can take some credit here, because I contacted Patrick Barkham (author of 'The Butterfly Isles' and contributer to the Guardian) last week - who was away at the time. Patrick consulted with his editors when he got back. It just shows what a good guy Patrick is - as he responded to me straight away and kept me up to date with what his paper was going to do. I didn't pass on the info here until something was published.Jack Harrison wrote:Good article in the Guardian. At least somebody other than ukb and BC has noticed his weird behaviour.Jack