Somerset levels - don't care what locals say?
Tony Gosling
tony at cultureshop.org.uk
Fri Feb 7 12:44:18 GMT 2014
how very wrong Peter
Land tax just binds humanity further into the
cult of money and the crooks now in charge of the tax spend
Read a bit of WInstanley and learn from him, not me.
T
At 14:08 05/02/2014, you wrote:
>A tax on all land values and then redistribute
>to all is the most efficient way to make land a
>common treasury for all and belong to us all. In
>the true spirit of the diggers.
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>Our earth is too precious not to tax its use
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>I do not really care what a bunch of locals
>would say in a public meeting, as its just a gut
>reaction to their self-interest, most people
>only ague from a point of self-interest and
>frame the debate as such it does not mean they
>are correct. My views are to support mankind and
>our future generation and have some places for wildlife.
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>Nothing wrong with using logic and science to
>understand and solve our problems. You need to
>do a bit more digging to understand economics,
>fluvial geomorphology and the benefits of having
>your belief systems challenged now and again.
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>From: Tony Gosling [mailto:tony at cultureshop.org.uk]
>Sent: 05 February 2014 13:12
>To: Peter Smith, Wildwood Trust
>Subject: RE: [Diggers350] Somerset levels - monks that dug them
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>Tks,
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>Oh dear LVT too is hopeless Tax is for luxuries which land isn't.
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>Flooding of levels even RSPB don't agree
>You, I repeat Peter, would not last five minutes
>at a public meeting down there, all words.
>Good radio debate to be had though if you're up for it.
>Too much of the anti dredging brigade see
>animals as just as important as humans - very
>new age - probably just like wife murdering Prince Charles.
>
>T
>At 12:37 05/02/2014, you wrote:
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>Our Annual review attached and go the Charity
>Commission website and type our name in to get
>all the info you need
><http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/find-charities/>http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/find-charities/
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>Our money comes mostly comes from individual
>Membership subscription, entrance fees, training
>courses and education fees, donations,
>Ecological consultancy services, grant making
>trusts, trading (shop & café) and the odd legacy.
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>I do lectures on charitable funding to
>postgraduate conservation students at a few
>university departments find that presentation
>attached. One of my areas of interest is
>charitable funding (As well as my Ecological
>qualifications I studied for an MA in Marketing
>& and MBA with focus on charitable fundraising)
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>I hope that answers your question. But as to
>dredging it is not the full solution - and the
>levels needs (in some part) to be returned to
>wetland and the upper catchment that drains into
>the levels needs less (state sponsored) farming
>and more wilderness and extensive farming to
>slow down flows and retain water for longer periods.
>
>Land Value Tax is the perfect way to achieve the
>diggers objectives as it allows for us to all
>share in the common treasury of land and natural
>resources and will promote the break-up of
>uneconomic landed estates that will offer
>opportunities to many for low impacts
>smallholding and wildlife, while still allowing
>for economic productivity, more jobs etc. It
>will also promote the lands ability to hold
>water and get people off land that is prone to
>flooding or is below the economic margin to be
>farmed. Land below the economic margin of
>production needs to be rewilded and this is
>where keystone animals like beavers and wild
>horse come in to help create diverse habitats,
>structural diversity and maximise biodiversity.
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>Any gemophologist and/or hydrologist will tell
>you that dredging is not the answer or read
>the EA presentation, attached, on dredging
>attached with some nice graphs to help you understand the issues involved.
>
>All the best
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>Somerset floods: this is a man-made disaster
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>Somerset apple farmer Julian Temperley is one of
>the thousands whose homes and livelihoods have been damaged by the deluge
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>Somerset floods: this is a man-made disaster
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>Submerged: Julian Temperley at his flooded family home Photo: Jay Williams
>By <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/anna-tyzack/>Anna Tyzack
>12:43PM GMT 30 Jan 2014
>Floods here on the Somerset Levels are normally
>really good fun. The sun comes out and we go
>sailing over our fields and my eldest daughter
>Alice [Temperley, the designer] will take some
>pictures of a girl in a canoe wearing one of her
>dresses. We happen to run our business,
><http://www.ciderbrandy.co.uk/>The Somerset
>Cider Brandy company, in a part of Somerset that
>is low lying, so were prepared for flooding.
>The water arrives, then quickly disappears and
>no damage is done because we have systems in
>place to control it. But there is nothing fun
>about this current flood, which came on New
>Years Day and has stuck around ever since.
>The Environment Agency has been widely reported
>as saying its a freak occurrence. Not a chance.
>This is a man-made ecological disaster. The
>River Parrett, which runs through the Levels, is
>blocked and badly needs dredging. Im not sure
>people realise that this is not just a theory
>being discussed in the papers, its a fact. Its
>what is actually happening. The river at
>Bridgwater is 10ft below its banks, while five
>miles upstream it is overflowing.
>If I dont dig out the ditches on my land all
>hell breaks loose. I lose my single farm payment
>and receive a fine. But the Environment Agency
>wont dig out its blasted river and so my
>ditches have nowhere to drain. As a result we
>have 50 acres of land under six feet of water
>it would take more than 30 years for it to
>evaporate naturally. Thankfully Ive managed to
>salvage most of the cider and cider brandy in
>our barns but Ive lost some of my orchards and
>in Thorney House, our family home where my
>98-year-old father lives, the flood water comes
>half way up my wellies. A few weeks ago it was
>covering the furniture. My father, who is deeply
>upset about the situation, is staying with my
>aunt in Worcestershire while we rent him a
>house. Its a big upheaval for a man of his age.
>Of course its not just my family that has been
>affected. About 20,000 acres of farmland in
>Somerset have been underwater for a month now.
>Im sure youve seen the pictures. The ancient
>village of Muchelney is totally cut off; you can
>only get there by boat, and Thorney, where my
>father lives, has been evacuated. The reality is
>horrific: tractors and cars have been submerged;
>animals drowned, and the locals are in despair.
>An oak furniture maker near Bridgwater has lost
>more than £1million of furniture, while the
>potter John Leach, 75, whose grandfather Bernard
>Leach established Muchelney Pottery, a family
>dynasty, has had to lay off his five employees;
>unless they were prepared to swim, there was no
>way they could get to their workshops. Hes in a
>deep depression and I think wed lose him from
>the area altogether if he could sell his house.
>But of course its filled with water, so thats not going to happen.
>So why hasnt the Environment Agency dredged the
>river? It used to be done every five years; even
>more than that in the areas where silt builds up
>more quickly. But for the past 20 years the
>Environment Agency has refused to dredge a
>process that would have cost them about
>£4million arguing that it is
>anti-environmental and causes as many problems
>as it solves (which defies common sense).
>Instead, £31million has been spent on creating a
>spurious wildlife reserve to protect the beetles
>in the river banks which, by the way, are very
>close relations of cockroaches. To think
>national treasures such as Leach are considered
>of less importance than some dubious beetles!
>This reluctance to dredge is about as ridiculous
>as me telling MPs in London to take down the
>Thames Barrier, pull down the Embankment, and
>let the Thames flood Soho as it pleases. The
>Somerset Levels, just like London, are a
>man-made environment; the River Parrett was not
>put where it is by God but by man. Taunton and
>Yeovil are two of the fastest-growing towns in
>England and theyre putting more pressure than
>ever on the Parrett, a slow flowing, naturally
>silty river. My great-great-great-grandfather
>used to bring coal barges up it from Wales; you
>couldnt do that trip in a canoe, now the
>bottom of the river is so high with silt
>We need to dredge 15 miles from the mouth of the
>river up to Thorney, as has been done in some
>shape or form for the past 500 years to
>safeguard communities from this kind of
>flooding. Not even the Second World War got in
>the way of it we put Italian POWs on the job.
>When the Somerset Levels flooded last year and
>water poured in to my fathers house for the
>first time since 1926 the Government declared
>it a once-in-a-lifetime event. Now its happened
>again, theyve conceded that some dredging
>might be done but only after theyve carried
>out studies. This week the chair of the
>Environment Agency Lord Smith told BBC Radio 4s
><http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qj9z>Today
>programme: Dredging would probably make a small
>difference, but its not the comprehensive
>answer that some people claim. The fact they
>think they need to research the situation shows
>how stupid they are. River dredging happens all
>over the world all the time. If they need
>someone to tell them whether water flows up hill
>or down hill, they should ask a local farmer or
>call in the army to sort out the situation
>thats what happened in the foot-and-mouth crisis of 2001.
>Were going to be flooded here in Somerset for
>at least another five weeks. The longer the
>water lingers over the Levels, the greater the
>ecological disaster. If the weather was 10
>degrees colder, the flora and fauna beneath it
>would be protected but as it is the grass and
>trees are dying and everything is starting to smell.
>Theres also the economic damage to consider. In
>both the villages of Thorney and Muchelney
>theres at least £1million damage, and about
>£50million across the whole area. Once Thorney
>House has dried which will take weeks it
>will need to be cleaned, replastered, rewired
>and replumbed, every appliance replaced and the
>furniture repaired. Last year we also had to
>replace all the old wooden floors with tiles;
>the whole job cost £70,000. This year the damage
>is three times as bad and the insurance
>companies, most of which were so accommodating
>last year, arent going to take kindly to renewing our policies now.
>Over the past couple of weeks Ive started
>receiving emails from my neighbours asking when
>the church services take place in Muchelney.
>Theyre all going to church now; they think
>Gods got something to do with all this water.
>But this is quite clearly a man-made problem.
>Yes, its been wet but we are, after all, in the
>middle of winter. There has been no cloudburst
>or crazy storm. The only thing God can be blamed
>for is not giving the Environment Agency any brains.
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