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Thursday, 8 November 2007

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Apologies for not posting sooner, I've spent most of this week fighting viruses. Such creative individuals who create these things :o(. Anyway, thought I should let you know what I've been doing. Obviously I have written back to Phil Hope letting him know what I thought. I have yet to hear from his office. I wrote to the Shadow Secretaries for CMS and DEFRA but no response from them. I guess the Queens speech etc has had them all a bit tied up so we're waiting again. When I catch up I'll start looking for other options to tackle the issue. Apparently the EU are revising the framework regulations to give countries more flexibility. I feel a whole heap of reading coming on!! As far as the amount of kiters on the door of No10 stands, we stand at 990 ohh so close to that 1000 mark so keep it going, it's a great effort!! We've inched into the top 2.5% of most supported petitions. We're getting there!! Thanks to all ...and enjoy the return of the Wind!!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Keep up the good work. Never ceases to amaze what B******T they can come up with. I reckon the government run courses "creative Bull*****ing for the civil servant", come to think of it my boss must have been on it (level 3 )

stug45 said...

two more signatures!

Mikey W3 said...

Well done for pushing ahead with this despite the fog of british civil service politics...can we buy you a drink?

Middleend said...

Cheers Stu and Mikey....all beer tokens gratefully accepted!! ;ob

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