Apologies, mods. You can cuff me if you like, I'm in such an exuberant mood that I don't care.
We won our case this evening, our protest group here, and it was quite amazing. A year ago, all the odds were stacked against our community. Every single one of our councillors and every party group indicated that they were determined to push through this massive, obscene, high density housing development here, because our council would receive mega millions from the government for doing so. The developers told us that our council had secretly agreed the deal with them and there was nothing we could do to stop it.
The developers are the customary mega rich and powerful consortium. Major shareholders of two of the companies making up the consortium make substantial donations to the governing party. Our council were gagging for it, the government are too, the developers told us that we didn't have a chance, it was in the bag.
Yet this evening we turned our previously hopeless situation around to beat them all! Our excellent campaign forced every political group to support our comunity against the fat cat developers, Our planning committee voted unanimously against the fat cats.
Of course, we now have to fight the developers' Appeal to an Inspector for the Secretary of State and we must bust a gut to beat the fat cats again. I believe we can do it, I have always believed that, because I believe in people power.
Power to the people, power to Jeremy's bid for justice and freedom, with the superb people he has fighting for him, he can do it too!