Thursday 10th of September
I have left last weeks rant on longer than usual. My theme today carries on from last week. I have just been talking to my mate Keith Arthur, one of the 'magnificent seven' brought in to help save the Angling Trust which as you all know by now is in deep trouble. The problems are many but not insurmountable providing it has the support of the great angling public. Consider this. Where would you all be without the support of such a body. No voice no vote nowhere! The apathy that most of you suffer from is an indemic disease. Get rid of it. Help to fight for what you have got....and make it better. Get your 20 quids out and send it off now. You can do it on line. Lads that have joined this week tell me that they have had a problem going on line but have managed to sort it and got their 20 quids paid. If you don't, don't moan when pollution takes over your local water. Don't moan when nutters in canoes spoil your day. Don't moan when idiots on push bikes runover your gear cos it will be your own faults.
And another thing.
I see the second fishery owner to ban foreign nationals from his water is taking some right old stick. I see some jumped up Dick head from the Polish Embassy has branded him a law breaker and a rascist. What's racist about protecting what is yours and more to the point what is providing your living. Unless the law has changed....and I don't think it has, the landlord of any public house has the right not to serve and also remove anyone he wishes to do so from his property. During my 'occasional' visits to the hostelries of this country and the UK I have witnessed the removal of 'unwanted' guests more than once. You can't educate a raging p--s head and it is proving impossible to educate these foreign law breakers. Believe me I have tried. 'Me no speak English,' is the usual offering. O.K so I give them the fisheries laws written in their own lingo. They sit and read and then carry on as if you weren't there. Chuck 'em out I say and bloody good luck to the fishery owner who has done likewise.
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Geoff,
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with these fishery owners, 100% and it has even been mentioned with tackle shops too. These are drastic times that cause for drastic measures, and before the inevitable cries of "RACIST!" these folk are running businesses and are limiting their customer base by doing this but I see they are left with no choice!
It winds me right up when the race card gets played, its not racist, its frustration on foreign nationals stealing fish!
I had a fall out with a self rightous **** on a local notorious fishing forum only this week after someone posted about polish anglers and then the thread got heated. I believe and I posted that if there was a tetley bitter drinking, full english eating, daily mail reading, white heterosexual anglo saxon tea and crumpets british sub species taking fish then feelings would be exactly the same!
He said that we were all being racist and started calling me names, I said he was being naive and I could not see his point of view as I would doubt there would be enough room up there for my head too!
Keep it up Uncle Geoffrey!