sean rua
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I think we may be in danger of getting embroiled in a tricky situation here. Academic arguments may not be of much practical use.
Almost by definition, motorhomers will, in the main, be parking in areas where the local, so-called, democratically-elected, council has had NO electoral imput from said campers. So the council won't be too bothered.
In theory, the council's main responsibility should be to its constituents as a whole. In other words, they tend to look after local interests.
Basically, the only things that they look to outsiders to provide are investment and/or grants. Other than that, outsiders are just an irrelevance, and, are no more welcome than would be a vanload of illegal immigrants at one of these here jamborees held by some of the folk on this forum, imo.
In the case of the guy on the island, at least he seems to be an actual resident, and not some sort of absentee landlord who uses his wealth and power to try dictate what happens in other folk's home areas many miles away. That sort of thing never goes down too well with the natives, imo.
For these reasons, I, personally, would never try to clean up Dodge City or pontificate about places like Scarborough, Blackpool or Brittany. I just don't believe it's my business and I'm afraid most of my "idealism" was knocked out of me years ago.:sad:
Anyway, good luck to all with their camping, but it might be worth bearing in mind that, in the final analysis, almost all laws become counter-productive in time. That's a major reason why politicians fail, time after time. Failure is inbuilt and almost inevitable.
sean rua.
Almost by definition, motorhomers will, in the main, be parking in areas where the local, so-called, democratically-elected, council has had NO electoral imput from said campers. So the council won't be too bothered.
In theory, the council's main responsibility should be to its constituents as a whole. In other words, they tend to look after local interests.
Basically, the only things that they look to outsiders to provide are investment and/or grants. Other than that, outsiders are just an irrelevance, and, are no more welcome than would be a vanload of illegal immigrants at one of these here jamborees held by some of the folk on this forum, imo.
In the case of the guy on the island, at least he seems to be an actual resident, and not some sort of absentee landlord who uses his wealth and power to try dictate what happens in other folk's home areas many miles away. That sort of thing never goes down too well with the natives, imo.
For these reasons, I, personally, would never try to clean up Dodge City or pontificate about places like Scarborough, Blackpool or Brittany. I just don't believe it's my business and I'm afraid most of my "idealism" was knocked out of me years ago.:sad:
Anyway, good luck to all with their camping, but it might be worth bearing in mind that, in the final analysis, almost all laws become counter-productive in time. That's a major reason why politicians fail, time after time.
Failure is inbuilt and almost inevitable.sean rua.
