CHILD STOLEN IN PORTUGAL. Madeleine Mc. Cann four years old today has been stolen from her family, when on holiday with her parents in Portugal. Apparently the majority of the public in Spain has little knowledge of the matter.
This girl child is from the U.K. She is a blond. Somewhere a family or other group, have suddenly come by such a child. Possibly giving the explanation that she is some relation or friend’s……..?
If you are aware of any such child, be she still blond or brunette, Please advise the Police of the matter.

NIÑO ROBADO EN PORTUGAL. Madeleine Mc. Cann cuatro años se ha robado hoy de su familia, cuando el día de fiesta con sus padres en Portugal. La mayoría del público en España tiene al parecer poco conocimiento de la materia. Este niño de la muchacha es del Reino Unido. Ella es una rubia. En alguna parte la familia o el otro grupo, ha venido repentinamente por tal niño. ¿Posiblemente dar la explicación que ella es alguna relación o amigo ........? Si estás enterado de cualquier niño, todavía esté ella rubia o el brunette, aconseja por favor a policía de la materia.

ENFANT VOLÉ AU PORTUGAL. Madeleine Mc. Cann quatre années aujourd'hui a été volé de sa famille, quand en vacances avec ses parents au Portugal. Apparemment la majorité du public en Espagne a peu de connaissance de la matière. Cet enfant de fille est le R-U. Elle est une blonde. Quelque part une famille ou tout autre groupe, sont soudainement venus par un tel enfant. Donner probablement l'explication qu'elle est une certaine relation ou amie ........ ? Si vous vous rendez compte d'un tel enfant, soit elle encore blonde ou le brunette, conseillent svp la police de la matière.

KIND GESTOHLEN IN PORTUGAL. Madeleine Mc. Cann vier Jahre alte heutige Tag ist von ihrer Familie, wenn am Feiertag mit ihren Eltern in Portugal gestohlen worden. Anscheinend hat die Majorität der öffentlichkeit in Spanien wenig Wissen der Angelegenheit. Dieses Mädchenkind kommt aus Großbritannien. Sie ist ein blondes. Irgendwo sind eine Familie oder andere Gruppe, plötzlich durch solch ein Kind gekommen. Die Erklärung vielleicht geben, daß sie irgendeine Relation oder Freunds ........ ist? Wenn du irgend solches Kind berücksichtigst, ist sie noch blond, oder brunette, beraten bitte die Polizei der Angelegenheit.

BAMBINO RUBATO NEL PORTOGALLO. Madeleine Mc. Cann quattro anni oggi è stato rubato dalla sua famiglia, quando sulla festa con i suoi genitori nel Portogallo. La maggior parte del pubblico in Spagna ha apparentemente poca conoscenza della materia. Questo bambino della ragazza proviene dal Regno Unito. È un biondo. In qualche luogo una famiglia o l'altro gruppo, ha ottenuto improvvisamente un tal bambino. Possibilmente dare la spiegazione che è un certo rapporto o amico ........? Se siete informati di qualsiasi bambino, è ancora bionda o il brunette, raccomanda prego la polizia della materia.


Ребенка, похищенного в ПОРТУГАЛИЮ. Маделен Mc. Канн четырех лет, сегодня были похищены из ее семьи, когда на каникулы с родителями в Португалии. По-видимому, большинство населения в Испании мало знания по этому вопросу. Это девочки из У. К. Она немного. Где-то семьи или другие группы, которые внезапно придет к такому ребенку. Возможно предоставление мотивам, что она является некоторое отношение или знакомого ... ... ..? Если Вам известно о любой ребенок, она бы еще немного или brunette, Просьба сообщить полиции этого вопроса.



兒童偷竊在葡萄牙舉行. 馬德琳管委會. cann四歲今天已被盜竊從她的家庭,當在度假,與她的父母在葡萄牙舉行. 顯然大多數市民在西班牙並不了解此事. 這個女孩是來自英國約克郡,她是金發. 某處一個家庭或其他團體,忽然來了這樣一個小孩. 可能給予的解釋是,她是有一定的關係或朋友間的............? 如果你知道有這樣的孩子,可她仍是金發,brunette, 請告知有關警察的事.

#طفل سرقت في البرتغال. مادلين Mc. Cann اربع سنوات من العمر قد سرقت من عائلتها ، عندما كان في عطلة مع والديها في البرتغال. ويبدو ان غالبية الجمهور في اسبانيا الا القليل من هذه المساله. هذه الطفله من شين كاف فهي شقراء. ما من اسرة او مجموعة اخرى قد تأتي فجأة مثل هذا الطفل. ربما يعطي تفسيرا انها علاقة بعض او صديق…..؟ اذا تعلمون اي طفل ، أو أنها لا تزال شقراء مرأة ، يرجى ابلاغ الشرطة عن الموضوع

PAPALSCOPE considers Election Apathy

UNITARY AUTHORITARIANISM
Or TRIQUETRAL Local Government.

There is a Slogan doing the rounds ‘if it aint broke don’t fix it.’ What though if it is broke, would the abolition of the Salisbury District Council be the answer? Definitely not. Vote on the Council Web Site.

It is ALL LOCAL GOVERNMENT ‘that is broke’. At its basic level there are sixty Parish Councils in the Salisbury District Council area which will not be holding an election on May 3rd.2007. This figure must surely include The Parishes of REDLYNCH ( Nomansland Ward) and Tisbury’s two adjoining Parishes of ANSTY and FONTHILL GIFFORD which have no nominations whatsoever. In Tisbury we have not had an election for the last twelve years. Now we will not be having one for sixteen years. In a bid to rectify the matter the number of our Parish Councillors was reduced from a requirement of Fifteen Councillors to a new lower level of Eleven Councillors. A fine fuss our Parish Council made about that, even at the twelfth hour a letter that the Parish Clerk had been instructed to write, was read out to the District Councillors defending the Status Quo. Goodness only knows where the objection lay, for frequently fewer than eleven Parish Councillors find themselves able to attend Meetings of the Parish Council, even after allowing for the fact that one has been indisposed.

The Public is obliged to all who have allowed themselves to be nominated to hold Parish Office for the next four year session. However Tisbury will need to co-opt two more Councillors to fill vacancies. West Tisbury will have to co-opt another four. The process of co-option is ethically right, but seems to be morally wrong. There should be a different procedure. For instance if any Council is undersubscribed why is it that there is no provision for the list of nominations to remain open? I do not wish to have Parish Councillors foisted upon me by some , that the Village might not have voted in as Councillors had there been an election.
It is no fault of the Councillors deemed elected that they have to co-opt others. If however any Councillor was to take advantage of the process, so as to accommodate ‘fellow travellers’, that would of itself be a nail in the coffin of Democracy.

AMALGAMATE OR DIE.
If one wonders why there is such a reluctance to become a Parish Councillor. Can it be that the days of Parish Pump Politics are past? Maybe Tisbury and West Tisbury should have, when recently given the chance reconstituted as a single entity. Possibly we might now offer to accommodate both Ansty and Fonthill Gifford too? If we wish to reduce Community Charges then the amalgamation of these little fiefdoms each with its own Parish Clerk seems the way ahead. I suspect the residents of all these Parishes are centred on Tisbury. Why should Tisbury alone have to subsidise the Parish Precepts of all its satellites. It might too shed better light on using Tisbury’s R2 funding to underwrite the construction of a Loo facility at Fonthill Gifford.
It is time that Tisbury Parish had benefit of an infusion of new blood. Councillors may have done their best, but really they might have done better. There was too much absenteeism. Of course people are busy but if one is too busy , do not become a Parish or even District Councillor. Last session we had some sixteen plus co-options . It puts one in mind of a comic operetta ? Cox and Box maybe or ‘HMS Pinafore’s entry of Sir Joseph Porter KCB ‘And his sisters and his cousins and his aunts’

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Possibly it is the Parish Councils rather than the Salisbury District Council that need to be abolished ? Have they any relevance beyond Village House Keeping?
Parish Councillors are there to be heard, but have no part to play in the Planning Process, however much huffing and puffing accompanies ‘decision’ making .
District and County Councillors are elected to decide on Planning Matters, even they delegate their authority to Planning Officers in a majority of decisions.

As there is no requirement for each and every Planning Application to be considered by a Parish Council, why has Tisbury Parish Council become so deeply involved? Recently there was the matter of lopping six Leylandii trees. What a waste of everyone’s time. It is unfair that some suggest any Parish Council is a collection of self interested busy bodies . Forefend surely not , they are there to represent not themselves, but to voice the consensus of local opinion, then to consider the better interest of the Community as a whole, rather than any sectarian portion whether, it be the Chamber of Trade, or …well no need really to be invidious. Parish Councillors should listen to everyone they represent before reaching a decision.

This week I helped out one of the Local District Council Candidates by delivering a few ‘Manifesto’ leaflets . With one exception anyone one had the chance to engage in conversation showed a great deal of interest in Local Government, even when they prefaced their remarks by telling me that they had no interest in it. Some of them waxed eloquent on local issues. One Craftsman Artisan professed to hold views so strongly that he thought he might be a disruptive influence on the Parish Council if he sought to become a member of it. What is wrong with that? It is useless for any faction to be on a Committee unless willing to fight its corner.
Too often one is told after the event ‘Well of course I didn’t agree with this that or the other, but….’ Once a decision has made, then a Councillor is bound by the collective responsibility for that decision. Thus there are those who believe their voice can better be heard by not being on a Parish Council, whilst others may be reluctant to offer their services as a Parish Councillor, in the mistaken belief that they are not ‘Deserving’. Both points are understandable.

How often now does one hear a remark made on the lines of ‘ I really had no wish to stand, but so and so, usually one of the Political Parties begged me to etc.’ Surely it is better that we support the self motivated enthusiast, providing they are not ‘too keen’ for the job, rather some Party Political Placeman. Any who succumb to siren voices do others a disservice. When my wife and I brought a young family to live here in 1980 , I came hot with the election fever of an adjoined District Council. Had the Electorate here, then been as apathetic over Democracy as it apparently is today, one might have been tempted to offer ones services. There were no vacancies then nor room for incomers.

In both 1978 and 1979 I had stood to be an Independent District Councillor in an adjoined Council to Salisbury. I had done so because I had then, as I still have now a great interest in Local Government. Possibly standing as an Independent in a Constituency with a Conservative Parliamentary Majority of twenty-six thousand, may have seemed more of a suicidal attempt than a real ‘pitch’ for Office;
‘You can not be serious’

in the parlance of the time. During the latter campaign I spent time over in the Isle of Wight campaigning with the late Robert Adley MP. in the cause of the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate there. (He lost too). Whilst I did so the Conservatives in the Ward of my intent were rushing around as might headless chickens, to successfully ensure that it did not fall to any Independent . Understandably they needed to retained both seats, and ‘rustled up’ two successful Candidates at least one who had only recently moved to the area. His credentials were not only membership of the New Forest Show but the National Trust. I do wish I knew the importance of such things as I out ranked him in both areas. Local Politicians come of two sorts; Leaders and Followers. Control is dependent on numbers. Width counting for more than quality in any Election, who needs too many Cooks in any kitchen?

There was that age old problem of any two seat Ward. Two Party Candidates against one other candidate. The Party members vote for their men, The supporters of the one other, vote for their man or woman. Then not wishing to waste the other vote they have , they give it to one or other of the two other candidates. Thereby ensuring the election of the two Party Candidates rather that the candidate that 52% of the electorate supported in the first place. Party Politics is a rough old game.

THINGS WOULD BE BETTER. If every Elector had but a single vote to cast, not two as we have in ‘Tisbury and Fovant’ nor three as some other Wards have. Why should We be allowed to help elect two Councillors to the Salisbury District Council, when others only get to elect one Councillor? Things are much the same everywhere, so why does the term ‘Rotten Borough’ comes to mind? I believe Hindon used to return two or was it three members of Parliament; so clearly Government is cleaning up its act, but why did it stop at Hindon?
This forthcoming Election for the Salisbury District Council has only four candidates who describe themselves as ‘Independent ’, and a fifth who left the relevant space blank possibly on the basis that ‘Independent’ would have been an inadequate description of his prowess.

What news of BULFORD WARD of the District Council this Election tide ? There have been just the two nominations to fill the two seats. There will be no Election in BULFORD. Messrs Smale and Spencer are elected by default. No doubt they will be admirable Councillors, congratulations to this Conservative and Liberal ensemble.

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However why have the Party Politicians allowed this to happen? Where a Labour Candidate, a Green, UK Independent, or even another. Why did not two Conservatives stand, why not two Liberal Democrats , instead of just the one of each? Then the result would have been either the same, or there might have had two Conservatives or two Liberal Democrat’s as an alternative. Did all the Political Parties miss a trick? Possibly Tisbury and Fovant Ward might have spared them a Liberal Democrat Candidate, we seem to have two. Maybe both will be elected, who knows? However there is every possibility that now the Conservatives have found someone willing to stand for them, that ‘Tisbury and Fovant’ could return an Independent and a Conservative. Would it not have been wiser to field but one Tisbury and Fovant Ward Liberal ? Two might mean that neither gets elected . It will be interesting to see how it all works out ? Fortunately the Electorate will decide, not some Blogging would be Psephologist.

I really feel that I need to reassure you that Lady Phyllis and I did arrive home from France in time for the Conference that we Unaffiliated Independents held at Bognor Regis last October . A number of you were good enough to have enquired after us.
It is quite a long drive up France especially now that we no longer have the benefit of using our Friend’s house for a rest en route .Truth to tell , he no longer has a house as he sold it a couple of years back. He seemed to think that things were no longer as they used to be. Said the country had been corrupted by a socio-economic-malaise, characterised by both indolence and financial corruption. I am not sure that I would put it as strongly as that myself, but the poor chap seems to have suffered at the hands of the natives. Didn’t care too much for the Estate Agents some of whom seemed not to have a clue as to how to sell a house, and thought any price was the right valuation. After he had sorted that lot out, he was landed with a Notaire who seemed too arrogant to bother to either get his facts right or be even handed between his two clients. I had told my friend at the time he bought the place, that he was making a grave error so to do, told him that it was tantamount to putting one’s life in the hands of fate. When out in the Desert one does not have to buy an adobe hut of one’s own. The Natives are not only hospitable, but willing to move out of their own home, should you wish to have the exclusive use of it, jolly decent sort of chaps most of them. Same in France to the best of my knowledge. Unless one plans to go native best leave accommodation to the indigenous people. Lot of English buying over there, but lots of others selling up. Experience is a fine thing, I could tell you a thing or two about that, bit too busy to do so at the moment.
Now, the excitement of the Local Elections is upon us, and the ‘Hustings’ buzz with the confused tones of Party Politicians defending their sinecures against the hoard of unaffiliated Independents we sent forth from Bognor Regis.
One has been so busy since our return to Blighty, that there has hardly been time for my feet to touch the ground. Lady Phyllis has been driving me in the Rolls from one end of England to the other in the cause of the Restoration of Apolitical Local Government. A woman like her makes one proud to be British. Quite a Sport too, insists on placing my General’s Stars on the car’s flagpole, not sure one is entitled so to do in Retirement, but who will bother about such small vanities; possibly onlookers think that a Rolls of our vintage must be featuring in some Kinematographic re-enactment deploring the seventieth anniversary of the accession of Neville Chamberlain, or maybe the bombing of Guernica. Never know which tragedy some of those Johnnies will try to turn a quick buck on next.
Before writing these few lines to you today, I dispatched my final words of encouragement to all those Independently minded Public Spirited Individuals who give their all, to the common cause. Men and Women cast in the mould of Nelson or Bodicea , who offer real leadership rather than bend as might a reed in the wind, to the immorality of pervading opportunism. Go out and vote for them. England still expects that every ‘man’ will do his duty on the 3rd.of May 2007. I do not doubt that this year will be decisive in our fight to restore Democratic Local Government to the people.
God Bless you all and let the best men win, whichever their gender.
Wrant. General Retired.
By the way. There was a rather disappointing response to that bit of poetry in my last article. I think the suggestion was there of making an attribution of it to Betjeman. Maybe he actually published it somewhere or another. Lady Phyllis would be very pleased to receive a literary reference, as too would Madame. I would not like her to think I was an out of sight out of mind sort of a man. That was never my way in life. …..Wrant.