by Susan Taylor
REPEALING THE DEFINITIVE MAP CUT-OFF! – MARVELLOUS SUPPORT WITHIN THE HOUSE OF LORDS! We now have some members of the upper house right behind us passing on tips on how to get DMS Cut-Off REPEALED!!!
Lord Thurlow, a cross-bencher in the HoL, telephoned me this week in response to my letters, to urge ME/ALL OF YOU/to step up our letter campaign to defeat the definitive map CUT-OFF in 2031!
‘Its’ NOT TOO LATE TO GET THIS BAD LAW REPEALED’ HE SAID. HIS LIKE-MINDED COLLEAGUES WERE ALL RELIEVED WHEN A REPEAL ANNOUNCEMENT WAS MADE TWO YEARS AGO! AND WERE AS DISBELIEIVNG AND ANGRY AS US WHEN IT WAS REINSTATED. His advice to us all now is to:
1. “KEEP SHAKING THE BONE! I support everything you’re saying. Keep it up! You must not give up!”
2.”Write to us, and especially Labour MP’s, telling us why you think CUT-OFF is bad so that we can represent your views – it’s well worth the stamps!
3.”Members are meeting the Secretary of State, Steve Barclay MP, to keep the pressure on for REPEAL.
4.”Be a pack of Rottweilers and keep pressing the Met Police to investigate alleged wrongdoing regarding unfair/bad treatment of your evidence [like ‘cross road’ does not automatically indicate public rights].
5. “Write to Baroness Susan Hayman of Ullock (Cumbria), a young, energetic Labour peer, strongly on your side and a force for good (Labour will probably take power next year). And write to Baroness Natalie Bennett of Manor Castle (Green Party). Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts is delightful, very enthusiastic and the best person to keep pestering.
6. “Horse riders don’t die on bridleways – but they die on the roads!” That message is powerful! Use it!
7. “I am happy to table questions in the House of Lords but it’s a lottery…it’s hard to be chosen. But send me your questions to ask Lord Benyon/Defra and I’ll do what I can to get answers!
8. “Make the mental health/countryside/wellbeing argument in your lobbying.
9. “Write to all your local Labour candidates for the next General Election.
10. “Ask the Law Society which peers are former high court judges and lobby them about your difficulties with the acceptance of your cross road evidence in your DMMO applications and at public inquiries. They will understand the problem.
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Thank you Lord Thurlow. We will ALL take your advice and WE’LL NEVER GIVE UP TRYING TO RID THE RIGHTS OF WAY LANDSCAPE OF THIS HEINOUS LAW DESIGNED TO MAKE THE RICH EVEN RICHER BY TAKING OVER OUR HIGHWAY AND BYWAY LAND.
The law locks up the man or woman that takes the goose from off the common But lets the greater villain loose that takes the common off the goose!
[The address of these peers is House of Lords, London, SW1A OPW.]
Or Google their email address if you prefer to email them.