The Rollason Way Parking Saga

I knew it, I KNEW it!!

I’ve just had my next door neighbour, Dave, round.

With a petition, would you believe?

Originally kick-started by Conservative councillor, Joan Holmes, I should add. And aimed at getting our road formally adopted by Brentwood Council. As you can tell from the attached photos, Crest Nicholson, who are responsible for the roads, aren’t exactly good at filling in potholes, or moving barriers.

Which — if I’ve understood things correctly — would’ve got done if everyone had voted for Option Five, in the first place!

Oh well!

I’m also surprised that our local Liberal councillor, Karen Chilvers, hasn’t mentioned this to anyone; she’s usually quite good at this sort of thing.

Granted the team of Councillor’s Holmes and Sheehan are trying, bless ’em, and Councillor Chilvers hasn’t done badly, either, but …

I also know that Sara Bartleman hasn’t got back to me with the actual figures from the recent vote on which parking scheme to adopt, yet.

I’d still like to see those.

A Word on Moderation

Just as a quick thought, I’ve been wondering whether the anonymous comment I had, on the recent post about the cinema counts as potentially libellous.

Frankly, I don’t know.

Now, I’m all for freedom of speech, expression, religion, what-have-you.

They’re basic rights we take for granted, here in the UK.

And rights seen as fundamental, in the spread of the internet.

However, I’m also aware that the UK has libel laws.

And, to be frank, I’d rather — if someone were to make potentially actionable comments on my blog — see them the subject of legal action, for making them.

Rather than be the subject of legal action, for having them here.

With that in mind, I’ve switched on the basic levels of moderation; one that still allows you to comment anonymously, but only after I’ve viewed the comment, and worked out if it could get me in trouble.

There’s also an option to remove both the ‘Anonymous’, and ‘Name/URL’ buttons.   I’d rather you make use of the latter.   (If you’ve a Googlemail account, Blogspot can log you in, with that.)

But I’ve left myself plenty of room to tighten up moderation, should I feel the need.

I’m fully behind your right to say what you feel is the right thing.

I rather not get sued as a result, though …