OFF: Re: Summer festivals... Glastonbury style

[Jon Jarrett]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Paul Mather wrote:

> BTW, I read recently on the Grauniad that the Tories want to clamp down
> on the Travellers as part of their election manifesto.  Some things
> never change...

        I see the point, but I think on this occasion that's just a
knee-jerk because currently Labour have made themses look stupid by not
having a clear policy on travellers and one lot round Cambridge actually
having a lawyer or two and thus being unusually hard to move. John
Prescott has been in international press being mealy-mouthed about it and
as the unofficial election campaign over here gets up to speed the Tories
have seen a chance to put the boot in and look as they have something
coherent themselves. Yours,
                            Jon (neither one nor the other)

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