Aimed at the Wrong People?

This was a good dry year but wet, let alone muddy, camping gear is not easy to pack up and many people go by coach - I am sure coach companies would be glad of having their luggage space full of muddy wet equipment. Left in the field it probably dries and much if the mud fall off. Someone said that the cost of cleaning up is factored into the ticket price and it is giving someone maybe a much needed job.
I do understand that point Welshwife but it wasn't just camping gear left behind, it is the debris from a few day's camping, drinking etc, all left in the tents left for others to clear up - probably on a minimum wage or in exchange for a ticket - the helper said it took 3 weeks to clear and a ticket costs £238? - less than minimum wages I think.
When DD went it was muddy and she bunged everything into big plastic bags and hauled it back to the coach; it all arrived home and was washed and used again.

JanaNana quite.

Maizie..... what a pity that you didn't read the post properly....Sheilasue is a Labour voter.

Whatever sort of bloody voter she is, roses I READ IT AS A TYPO.

Hear hear!

Have been out having fun so did not get back to the thread, sorry, then the internet was down.

What seems strange is that you are completely ignoring the matter of debris left behind by the entitled types that attended the festival.

And you so keen on supporting the poor and deprived...

Only Ana seems to have grasped what I was trying to say (although others may have done, have not read all the thread yet).

Funnily enough, whilst I was out today (enjoying myself but trying not to leave litter or debris in my wake) someone told me, without any prompting on my part, about his son who had just come back from Glastonbury and was appalled at perfectly good equipment just left abandoned, along with all the debris of a few days spent there. Some people were conscientious and cleared up, took their gear away or donated it but there is apparently something on FB which I haven't seen about the mess left behind and his son (aged 30+) was appalled.

I didn't shoot the YouTube video from last year, it was someone who was much younger and dismayed at the careless abandonment of good camping gear and nasty rubbish - left for others to clear up.

So - if a tent/lilo/sleeping bag is cheap enough to get left behind where does it go - into landfill?

Such a waste of resources.

And I was just pointing out that a word of support from Jeremy Corbyn to those clearing up the detritus and filth of spoilt and privileged festival-goers would have been a word in the right direction.

Recycling - bah humbug

Yes, in answer to someone who asked if I remembered what it was like to be young - I do, and I remember clearing up after myself and bringing camping gear home and disposing of rubbish responsibly - even more important these days when recycling is the order of the day.

If you think this is yet another 'moany' thread then so be it - but it's their future and that of their children whom they may have taken with them and their future grandchildren at stake here.

They seem to have double standards - Jeremy Corbyn tells them that we want to 'Build a Better Britain for Everyone' and that is a very laudable sentiment - pity they didn't listen and start being more responsible for themselves, the countryside and the planet.

Thanks if you've read this - rant over

Maizie..... what a pity that you didn't read the post properly....Sheilasue is a Labour voter.

@devongirl

You just do square bracket [, then write biscuit then close with a square bracket ] No spaces between the characters.

Any tents or camping gear are sorted out and given to charities...They don't get thrown away!

Thanks ana! (I still don't know how to 'draw' one though..!)

Whose JB Marieeliz? Have I missed something?

Whoops, x posted between biscuits. I meant I was relieved words hadn't totally failed you MaizieD

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1814174-to-not-know-what-the-jammy-dodger-icon-means

Aahh! What combo of key strokes?

So glad they didn't totally fail you MaizieD.

It's a biscuit.

I very rarely use it but it can signify astonishment of a disapproving nature as in "Well, that takes the biscuit!" IMO

Maizie off topic but what is the symbol in your post? (I can't see it in the emoticons below)

Simply I think because labour has all ways supported arts, film and television.



Words have just about failed me.

We don't all think JB is God's gift. The problem is "the left" think they have the right to shout their support but let anyone else give a different opinion and they get nasty. That is why most of us with a different opinion shut up. No democracy where the left is concerned. I wait for the flack from you lefties.

That's ok teddy. Out of date views like that go with head in sand attitudes.
Opt out if you choose.
Shades of 'I'm alright,Jack' ??

I live in a well heeled area but am surprised how many people are labour in the area including ourselves, Greenwich has a lot of Arty folk tv and film actors most of them vote labour. Simply I think because labour has all ways supported arts, film and television.

NO!!!! Don't want to play!!!!
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That sums it up very well RN.

Teddy that expression ( and a good one) ends with the words 'with friends'
And we are not friends on here, are we? So let's discuss!
Although it can be done with civility.

I stand by the old expression 'never discuss politics or religion' ??????