Paul Powlesland is the leader of a group of volunteers called the River Roding Trust.
Over a 10-day period, they cleared 200 bags of rubbish from a creek called Alders Brook. The EA has now sent Paul a notice informing him that he is under investigation for ” permitting and waste offences “, which could result in a 2 year prison sentence, if successfully prosecuted.
The EAs main complaint appears to be that the dredging was significant enough that it constitutes a flood risk.
Let me get this right. Ignoring numerous requests over a period of years for a clean up, and allowing the dumping of billions of litres of sewage by Thames Water and waste by fly-tipping criminals didn’t constitute a flood risk, but a 10-day clean up by volunteers did?
It’s true that no good deed goes unpunished, isn’t it? Especially by jobsworthy cunts ( looking at you, EA ).
Nominated by : Jeezum Priest
The Environment Agency is staffed by fuckin morons.
The bloke was doing something that benefited the Environment, a green act,
and something that benefited everyone.
A selfless act.
Anyone with a modicum of commonsense can see that.
if they dont like it why didn’t they clear it themselves?
you know, seeing as it’s their jobs.
the useless pen pushing nazis.
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A perfect example of the disaster that is an ever expanding,remorseless,unaccountable bloated bureaucracy.
The ever expanding Nanny State of Pen Pushing Cunts.
Waterlogged Oven.
Good morning.
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i fuckin loathe the Environment Agency.
i loathe all government departments that sit on their arse and penalised anyone for the slightest infraction
cunts.
i mainly hate them because they take money out my pocket..
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You would think they would be grateful. If like most government workers, it would give them more time to search online for colourful lanyards and chortle each other’s balls.
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The EA is well known for being staffed by vindictive cunts. Once they are on your case they do not stop until you check out. Never mind, Angela Eagle will sort it….
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My moron socialist, now dole scrounging, parasitical brother used to “work” for the environment agency until he retired at 35 for a career in rinsing the state for all the benefits he could get his hands on. That’s how I know the EA is full of cunts.
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I hope they presented him with a carriage clock for his many years of loyal service.
And did they let him keep his lanyard as a memento?
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Something along those lines.
He was in fact presented with a court summons for kicking in the headlights of a car that he deliberately walked out in front of outside the EA offices where he worked (because he has a messianic idea of himself being better than all of the evil polluting Tory car drivers out there). The enraged owner followed him into the offices and told them what had happened. He must be one of the few people to be booted out of a government job, so some achievement.
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@bd…’he ain’t heavy he’s a #?”&’ 🎶… family eh 😩
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Gelderd – he’s also vandalised our company vehicles because I’m an evil Tory capitalist. It did at least give me licence to drop the cunt before grinding his face into the pavement. That felt good, was worth the dents on the vans.
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Sounds like a right cunt, Dave. I hope you gave him a boot in the nuts too, while he was down.
“Dent my vans again & I’ll dent your fuckin’ head!”
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Stained, that is almost word for word what I said – it was “you vandalise my property again I’ll vandalise you you cunt.”
He snuck into our house and kicked in the front of my tumble dryer a few weeks ago, I still haven’t located the cunt, but retribution is coming his way.
But this is what your socialists are actually like. They’re not nice people at all if you are not in their club I.e. if you’re self deterministic, hard working, a net contributor, they fucking hate you and will literally and figuratively vandalise you and your belongings (and give your money to other people whilst claiming to be the munificent caring benefactor); all of this out of hatred and resentment for you being what they are too lazy and talentless to be themselves.
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Sounds like a prince amongst men, Dave
Oops sorry, mis-spelled prick!
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JP, his latest life dilemma is working out how to get his hands on £50k from the sale of a family asset (his share, myself and my other brother benefiting to the same tune each). If he has more than £16k in savings he forfeits his benefits. As powers of attorney of the estate, myself and my other (normal, hard working) brother are sorely tempted to just drop the £50k into his bank account and give the DWP a buzz…
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Don’t see what the issue is, Dave.
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WTAF? It’s about fucking time these fucking civil service cunts took a running jump at themselves. It seems thanking them rather than prosecuting seems to be in order.
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One of those cases where you have to ask the question of the Environment agency, do you have the cojones to prosecute?
As JP states, there’s plenty of evidence that the EA regularly fails to carry out it’s remit so could the EA boss reasonably expect to go to court and come away with his / their reputation intact whether or not it’s successful in arguing it’s case.
I suppose a lot depends who any prosecution hearings are dealt by. If by jury then I’d say there’s a reasonable chance of defending any action if enough embarrassing mud is slung at the EAs known historical failures to enforce / prosecute big business. If the hearing is solely by judge / panel of “experts” I would be less confident as emotives wouldn’t work with them.
If the River Roding Trust is prosecuted and loses I suggest they remedy matters by restoring the river to it’s former state by simply chucking all the sh*t back in. After all that’s what the EA seem to want. Make it their problem again.
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There will be no prosecution as the EA did a U turn.
The place must be staffed by lazy cunts who see their job as passing restrictions and fining people rather than organisation.
Instead of sending a few staff from their offices to to help and advise they decide to send a threatening letter.
They should have provided rubbish bags and the disposal of all crap that was dragged out of the stagnant river, They should have put out a call for extra volunteers and given advice on how not to disturb the wildlife.
Perhaps handed out the obligatory hi-viz jackets for the volunteers and organised a catering van for refreshments.
But no, they sent a notice of prosecution.
Fucking cunts.
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No need to worry about imprisonment for doing good, due to people in charge will be serving their time in a lunatic asylum.
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Maybe the Environmental Agency doesn’t want to be exposed as fucking useless by people doing their job for them.
Fifty years ago the River Roding was a stagnant and smelly rubbish dump.
I knew it well, especially the section that ran alongside Ilford Golf Club.
As the third longest river in London it was fucking horrible.
The water didn’t flow at all and I remember it flooding heavily after heavy rain storms.
I don’t suppose that it is any better now.
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Now look, it’s more than my jobs worth 😂
Rules are rules, you can do that with the right uniform and approved bin bags.
The EA would never try to go to court over this a jury would take no more time that a cup of coffee to return not guilty and the judge would make them pay all the costs.
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They get one star on trustpilot. A typical review –
Utterly useless, the environment agency have left an abandoned boat to sink and spew out oil and litter into the river Nene near Northampton town centre for nearly an entire year after it has been reported to them countless times. The only action they have taken is to slap a “we are aware” sticker on the side of the sunken boat and then call it a day. Complete joke of an agency.
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It’s a government agency so… useless,not for purpose,over staffed, clueless, and a complete waste of OUR money…more quangos than you can fill a plastic bag with…err 💩 swivel 🖕
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It’s a bargain at just shy of £2.3 billion a year.
The hopeless Gravy Train Cunts.
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There’s all kinds of agencies and interfering organisations poking their unwanted noses into the our natural world, thinking only they know best.
We have a nearby ancient woodland ‘owned’ by the national trust, and about a decade ago it was decided to remove a large section of trees.
The reason?
Because the trees, planted by a wealthy Victorian benefactor, were not indigenous and, under ‘expert’ guidance, would be brought back to its natural state.
By the time the forestry commission had finished, it looked like a life size model of a WW1 battlefield.
Nearly a decade later, it’s a sea of fucking brambles.
Well done everybody.
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The EA, like so many other official bodies, just exist to give lardarses like Louise Casey and bender boys like Peter Kyle the illusion of being in employment. Thunderthighs Casey has been “tasked” with bringing forward yet another government review a year early. The width of her seat will not diminish though, she will still look like a heavyweight wrestler.
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No need to worry. Rupert “the bear” Lowe and Nigel “frog face” Farage will turn things around and everything will be back to normal.
I was thinking if Sasha “ashtray head” Johnson hadn’t been shot, what a bloody nuisance she would’ve become.
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Yes, all above could become excellent children’s books for when the government reaches its second childhood.
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As long as the books follow the narrative, 101 genders, Jack becomes Jill, willies are fun, Mums got a cock so what etc.
Sorry couldn’t resist because I’m a official mentalist
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Let’s hope so Sammy, let’s hope so.
We can all agree they can’t be any worse than the current WEF uni-party.
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‘Barrister & founder of Lawyers for Nature. River guardian on River Roding where I live on a boat. Advocate for Rights of Nature & nature guardianship.’
Sounds like a cunt to me.
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A load of ‘guests’ probably complained that the river didn’t look like The Ganges anymore.
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That’s right, Woke Up and it must’ve “got their goat”.
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Huge illegal pikey owned waste tip outside Gloucester. Lorries going in and out of there for months. Loads ofc omplaints by the locals, reported on national news. Action by the Environment Agency? The square root of tuck all. They all want shooting.
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Had an incident a few years back where I saw some cunt was disposing of questionable rubble that, due to the nature of it, could’ve contained asbestos. So I rang the EA up, gave em details & told them they needed to take a look. Cunts did everything they could to avoid doing owt about it, but I didn’t give it up until they eventually got their arses out to it.
Guess what? Yeah, fucking asbestos, but by then the pikey cunt that had done it was long gone. Useless cunts.
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I’ve got mixed feelings about him.
Although the EA are indisputably bone-fucking-idle, desk-bound and tea-drinking cunts for letting the river get in the state that sank to he, to my mind, is no riverine Robin Hood.
He’s got a social media presence that I looked at only to find that he and his eco-warrior duckweed-dredging mates look the type that go hand in hand with the ‘Refugees Welcome’ wankers and dentists’ poster boy Zack Polanski, the well-known bender in the river.
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In that case, Isabel, I hope they prosecute the cunt. He gets a fine, the EA demonstrate what cunts they are & the river is clean.
Win, win, win! What’s not to like!?
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Just so Isa. There is a YouTube video of the before and after when they’d completed their little activity and whilst I’m all for the clean up, it looked like a bunch of clueless fuckers had drove a digger in and randomly gouged up the country side. I may be wrong but I think also the trees and bushes were hacked about during the spring, which is also against the law due to nesting birds.
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Civil serpents.Full oven treatment.
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Every cloud has a silver lining, and it occurs to me that if any “Frenzy” lovers are out there, and they want to be Mr. Rust and get rid of Jess Phillips, shove her in the River Roding. By the time the EA find her her teeth will have bred generations of dragonfly larvae. The “Manchester Pusher” might do the same thing for Bev “Harry Potter” Clarke. But in Manchester of course. Manchesterism in action.
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Everyone is screaming that the rivers and the sea are polluted to fuck and people like Fergal Sharkey are leading the charge in this insisting it’s cleaned up.
But when we have a population of millions of people pouring huge amounts of shit and assorted chemicals into the environment ( Peacefuls and Velcro heads being the most toxic )we have to admit that we’re fucked and it’s going to get worse . It has to go somewhere.
And on that happy bit of news good morning everyone
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The degradation of the Chiltern chalk streams mainly caused by excessive extraction for human use. Been getting worse since the 1920/1930s.
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It is the load of crap you see on the road verges that boils my piss. We have become dirty, filthy, country. I can’t help feeling it started at about the same time that immigration got out of control.
Good Morning
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Don’t help feeling it because it’s absolutely true. Import filth get filth. Remember that megadump discovered in a field next to an Oxfordshire bypass last year? I’d bet money that was organised by a gang of smelly cunts.
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Most of that hedge side shit is from the likes of Bibba and Veiola trucks as well as skip wagons who don’t secure their covers too well nor completely empty the residues languishing on the floors of these trucks.The A14 around Kettering and Corby is especially bad.
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A part of the world I know only too well Ptarmigan as I live not far from Kettering. I agree about the truck waste but an awful lot is chucked out of cars. The only way to stop it is to have harsh deterrents, crush private cars and imprison both the truck driver and the company directors of companies involved with roadside clean-up duties during their period of incarceration.
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The EA is one of hundreds and hundreds of quangos in charge of billions of pounds, at arms length from parliament and the tax payers. Imagine how useless they all are.
As for rivers, well, we have far too many people in this country for the infrastructure to cope with, and too many filthy scumbags willing to litter. The government doesn’t help though. They’ve made waste disposal very expensive because of the landfill tax and all the fancy, probably PFI, facilities they’ve built over the years. So, unsurprisingly, waste is more likely to be illegally dumped.
Councils often don’t help householders with asbestos any more, despite its extensive use after the war and being present in large numbers of homes, and leave them to be ripped off by companies. So a lot of it either ends up being dealt with illicitly by backhanders or in the black wheelie bin.
We already have laws in place to deal with litter but I never see the police out enforcing them. I hate litter and think people who do it should be birched. Put it in a bin you dirty fuckers. It isn’t just the third world invaders, a lot of white chavs seem to think it is normal to just throw their trash on the floor or out of car windows. Scum. This country looks like a fucking dump.
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Behind the houses here Count F, is a big open grassed area. From time to time we take a walk round there with bin bags and collect the rubbish that’s been discarded. It’s not too bad to be honest (maybe we can take credit for that!) but a large part of what we pick up is empty booze bottles with east european labels. I’m wondering now since the folks around know who I am and where I live am I at risk of prosecution?
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We have a similar problem where we are, Arfur.
Empty Tyskie and Perla cans strewn around
And the local dooshka’s have a nasty habit of leaving all manner of household waste by the bins in our local parks.
People ask why they don’t use their own bins.
Quite.
But if some are here illegally, dossing with their mates, there’s absolutely no way they’ll ask the council for an extra bin.
Dirty fuckers.
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Good man, Arfur. It takes the decent people to volunteer, filling the void left by our expensive but shit government, and the scruffy pigs who leave a mess.
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And i’d wager a significant side order of ‘truckers tizer’ piss bottles often seen decorating service stations such as Tot Hill in Newbury to name but one.Utter scum abound now more than ever it’s fair to say.
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The only growth industries we have in Britain are the welfare state, migrants and useless quangos, focus groups and committees staffed by pen pushing lanyard wearing pricks.
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Digression.
noel “short arse” edmonds thought it a good idea to release lobsters from a shop, whilst they were perfectly happy being eaten alive, rather then being dumped in the sea it knows nothing about. This accident prone cunt who should’ve been locked up when causing death on the bbc and for fucking mr blobby up the arse, besides other nauseating things. Should be put in stocks and ridiculed.
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Edmonds has been losing the plot for quite a while now.
He’s into faith healing and all that bollocks.
A true sign of someone who knows they had it all and blew it.
What a cunt.
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Noel obviously didn’t see this news item then, the gormless cunt.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr41pzx14pno
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I remember an incident in the early eighties, where animal rights activists released mink from some establishment in Oxfordshire.
They didn’t die, but just about every ground nesting and dwelling bird in the area did.
The savage fuckers went on a right killing spree.
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The mink are thriving everywhere nowadays. No natural predators apart from the motor car.
I don’t think even the Eastern Europeans eat them.
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Many years ago there were packs of Otterhounds they hunted Otters. Otters protected no hunting, some packs converted to Mink hunting. Very successful in culling a few mink. Hunting with dogs banned.
Mink are full on furry fuckers afraid of fuck all ferocious hunters.
Some did escape from fur farms back in the 1960s but thanks to animal rights 100s got out in late 70’s thanks to animal right persons. They arrived in my area in about 2005. Otters also arrived and supposedly do not like mink and fight over territory.
Bit like the Chinese in their eating habits only four legged thing they won’t have a go at is a chair.
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Edmunds is a cunt.
If he’s that concerned about the humane treatment of animals, then go and protest Halal ritual slaughter.
What’s that Noel, No. mmmmm thought not. You cunt.
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Anybody remember when Edmonds started shooting people?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGtdsXhXiEM
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The EA are cunts. I used to freshwater fish. I turned up one early morning at my local river to see a Polaxe catching small roach and dace. He unhooked them and instead of returning them popped them in a carrier bag he’d hung on a nearby bush. I told him this wasn’t the done thing and that in this country we return coarse fish. I got a mouthful of abuse and told ‘Polska, Polski. Eengliiish rules not apply’.
I called the number on my freshwater fishing licence, to report illegal poaching/fishing. When I got through, the (probably) lanyard wearing bearded Lib Dem voter on the other end told me there was no balliffe or enforcement team in the area so nothing could be done.
I asked why I pay £30 a year plus for a licence? What benefit did it give me?? The cunt couldn’t answer.
Now if the wader had been on the other leg, as a white, taxpaying, straight male, I’d have been fined and dragged through the courts, named and shamed and had my tackle confiscated.
The EA are Utter Cuntitude.
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This is one of the fucking problems ethnic ethnic own rules my washumbo allows this. Sharia, can shag this 5 year old death to all you non believers, bring me little girlies.
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My old company used to produce watercourse improvement designs for the EA when an old ex Thames Water friend we knew used to work there. He was old school, a great Engineer and tireless.
He gave us tonnes of well paid work to do and he used us as the larger consultants were fucking hopeless and used to dump their green graduates on the schemes, which then did not get off the ground. He retired and then the replacement “Engineer” was a fucking pen-pushing, muesli gobbling tit. The work went back to the larger consultants. Sadly our friend passed away a few years ago. Sorely missed.
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