tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post6741095614963663709..comments2024-03-28T22:32:50.562+00:00Comments on Liberal England: Big Brother in a Northamptonshire parkJonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-11058708788420852552016-02-02T23:02:23.015+00:002016-02-02T23:02:23.015+00:00Here in Rutland we have Joyce, she deals bad dog o...Here in Rutland we have Joyce, she deals bad dog ownersMartin Brookes @oakhamukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08453661497127009763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-83678251727505238592016-01-31T17:48:25.186+00:002016-01-31T17:48:25.186+00:00Clarence Harry Willcock, 7 December 1950: “I am a ...<a href="http://samathieson.com/card-declined/extracts-and-articles/extract-a-speeding-liberal-knocks-down-id-cards-clarence-willcock/" rel="nofollow">Clarence Harry Willcock</a>, 7 December 1950: “I am a Liberal, and I am against this sort of thing.”<br /><br />Lord Bonkers calls him Clarence 'Frogman' Willcock, but I can find no source to support that.Jonathan Calderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-91091589214772526502016-01-31T13:31:56.582+00:002016-01-31T13:31:56.582+00:00"When I was a child I acquired the idea that ..."When I was a child I acquired the idea that not having to have an identity card was part of our reward for winning the war."<br /><br />It is forgotten that Britain survived WWII by introducing ID cards, a necessity perhaps, in a bunch of islands packed with neighbours from Poland, France, Holland, Denmark, Germany etc. Some things went badly wrong -- internment of foreign nationals -- and I'd be interested to learn how ID cards worked in practice. <br /><br />Food rationing rules after the war imposed ID checks, so it was not until 1954 that you could live as an ID-free man or woman. <br />---<br />Dog mess and the people who leave it behind? Some people respond to polite requests. Others won't, no matter how much you ask verbally or visually. You -- and the state -- have to accept limitations. Focus leaflets are not about solving every problem, but about listening and getting a handle on serious problems affecting individuals or communities. It means leaving a few dog piles in the grass.<br />---<br />Perhaps one should respect graphic designers and marketing managers generally. The ones at Kettering Borough Council made big mistakes, and others in the same jobs would be appalled. We read hundreds of signs and notices every day, few of which annoy or offend us. We are more likely to prickle at passive-aggressive notes or officious signs written by people like us.Phil Beesleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18442987962398498812noreply@blogger.com