{"id":970,"date":"2017-06-17T10:10:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T09:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/?p=970"},"modified":"2017-06-19T12:07:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T11:07:55","slug":"council-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/council-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing! The council read this man\u2019s comment beneath a news story, and now they\u2019re changing their entire policy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/170104-F-LS255-0001.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-971\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/170104-F-LS255-0001.jpg?resize=400%2C267\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/170104-F-LS255-0001.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/170104-F-LS255-0001.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes! It finally happened. After this local resident left a comment underneath a news story, the council have announced that they&#8217;re changing their entire policy direction. After years of people saying it couldn&#8217;t be done, the critics are now having to rewrite the rulebooks, as this story turns everything we thought we knew on our heads.<\/p>\n<p>When Cambridge City Council introduced plans to introduce an access charge to central roads in the Romsey area in order to help curb congestion at peak times, one man took a stand. Mr John Pevensey was sick of democratically elected officials making decisions on behalf of local people, and he just had to say something.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to\u00a0<em>cookywook&#8217;s blog<\/em>, Mr Pevensey said: &#8220;Look, I&#8217;m all for cutting emissions, but I don&#8217;t understand why the council think this is a good idea at all. I don&#8217;t have access to any of the facts, studies, or expert opinion that the council does &#8211; but I do have a car. And I like to drive that car wherever I want, even if I don&#8217;t need to. That&#8217;s my right, right?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He continued: &#8220;I pay my council tax just like everyone else. That means I&#8217;m literally paying the wages of the council. Which means they literally work for me. Which means they&#8217;re not allowed to do anything I don&#8217;t like. That&#8217;s how the system works.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But what was the comment that changed everything? Underneath the article on the Cambridge News website, Mr Pevensey wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>ife had it wiv the concil (more like CLOWNCIL) tellin us how 2 live are lives. they shud NOT bring in this plan. its a bad plann! i h8 it so much.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The quote sent shockwaves through the city council halls. One city councillor is reportedly still off sick after apparently having become violently ill on reading \u00a0it. 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This book is supposed to be part of the Dark Tower series that I really love. It's set between books five and six of the series (where's there's this weird unexplained shift in tone and location) -\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/6\/68\/The_Wind_Through_the_Keyhole_Trade.jpg","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":362,"url":"https:\/\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/content-updates\/","url_meta":{"origin":970,"position":4},"title":"Content Updates","author":"cookywook","date":"July 29, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"This post is entirely for the benefit of Matthew Mittal. 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