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Nicholas, who we’ve not heard from in a while, writes in with some relieving clarification concerning the controversy in Bristol, England, over a proposed plan to trim the hedges in a spot notorious for being a gay rendezvous (and the charge made by an LGBT group there that trimming the verge is tantamount to a hate crime, essentially).

Not quite. Bristol City Council is clearing some scrub, as part of their management plan for the Downs. The LGB group of Council employees commented that this might be seen as discriminatory. The Council’s Downs Committee decided that it isn’t, and they will carry on clearing the scrub.
(This Is Bristol)

The report of the Downs Ranger is here:
(Link)

Well, that’s something of a relief! And looky here…another Brit not afraid to speak with a bit of common sense!

..former Lord Mayor, Tory councillor for Stoke Bishop, and Downs Committee member Peter Abraham rubbished suggestions of discrimination.

“How can it be discriminatory to clear land that might stop what is an illegal practice?” he said.

The report says: “It is important to recognise that the area is part of the Avon Gorge Site of Special Scientific Interest and removal of scrub is in fact driven by policy imperatives to open up this part of the Downs and Gorge landscape, which has become overgrown over the past two decades, damaging the area’s wildlife value — in particular the gorge’s plant communities.”

So it looks like the brush clearing will go ahead. Thank goodness that at least one town council in Britain has demonstrated a refusal to cave in to absurd complaints from the thin-skinned. And pace what Mr. Abraham noted, if this process of cleaning up an area to improve its wildlife value and reduce damage to the local flora also happens to make the place unfeasible as a gay hookup spot, more’s the better.

David Cameron’s remarks aside, not all is well in Britain. This may just be the most insane thing I’ve ever heard, and it doesn’t even have anything to do with Islam!

A council has been accused of discriminating against homosexuals over plans to clear undergrowth from a notorious gay cruising spot.

Bristol City Council wants to prune bushes and remove cover from an area known as the Downs to improve the landscape and encourage rare wildlife.

But its own gay rights group has opposed the move, claiming that cutting back the bushes was “discriminating” to homosexual men who used the area for late night outdoor sex known as dogging.

To which, I think, the best comment that can be made is:

…it would be a THREAT TO GAY RIGHTS if you made it harder for them to bone each other where children may come across them. I just don’t think I’ve ever beheld a more perfected set of priorities in my entire stupid bigoted American life.

Lawn and garden maintenance is now an anti-homosexual hate crime in England. It is more important that gay couples be provided with underbrush in which to hide their late-night sexual antics than it is for a town council to arrange for someone to trim the verge on public property.

Some things are just to absurd to be fiction. This one is totally going in the “Asteroid Overdue” category.

Update: Ace sums it up rather well: “Britain is the Florida of Europe.”

A teenager in Bristol, England has died from the complications related to a chemical abortion.

The reason she chose to abort? She didn’t want to strain her relationship with her boyfriend, who evidently was not keen at all on being a father.

Just horrible, isn’t it? Two lives lost so as to appease a boy so selfish, he’d gladly put his penis inside someone but wouldn’t dare accept one possible outcome of doing so.