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"But simple as the tale is there is hardly better historic training for a man than to set him frankly in the streets of a quiet little town like Bury St. Edmunds, and bid him work out the history of the men who lived and died there. In the quiet, quaintly-named streets, in the town-mead and the market-place, in the Lord’s mill beside the stream, in the ruffed and future brasses of its burghers in the church, lies the real life of England and Englishmen, this life of their home and their trade, their ceaseless, sober struggle with oppression, their steady, unwearied battle for self-government. It is just in the pettiness of its details, in its common place incidents, in the want of marked features and striking events, that the real lesson of the whole story lies. For two centuries this little town of Bury St. Edmunds was winning Liberty to itself, and yet we hardly note as we pass from one little step to another little step how surely that Liberty was being won."

John Richard Green (1837-1883), grandfather of British social and cultural history.

Green, J. R., (1876), Stray studies from England and Italy, Macmillan & Co., London p.218-9

The Cattlemarket Development

'BERLIN WALL' ROUND THE CATTLE MARKET FOLLOWING 200 STRONG DEMONSTRATION

25/1//2007

PEOPLE POWER ON THE MOVE

An eight foot security fence has been erected around the Cattle Market site in Bury St Edmunds following a demonstration by some 200 people of the town opposed to the Cattle Market development. Yes, this is what the town of Bury St Edmunds once praised as one of the nicest towns in the country has come to under the current regime.

What was supposed to be a ceremony of congratulation between officers and selected councillors of St Edmundsbury council (the Iscariot's Council') and the cursed Centros Miller was met by an angry protest by residents and traders on December 1st.

Police held back local residents who reported that officials jeered at them - well no surprise there. St Edmundsbury is after all the Borough where officers appear to run the councillors who appear to be about as independent as a ventriloquist's dummy.

The Bury Free Press - whose offices are within shouting distance of the site - published a photograph reminiscent of an eighties picket line. The anger is palpable and seems that Taylor Woodrow fear angry residents - who have lost parking spaces, toilet facilities and see the livelihoods of their shopkeepers and local traders harmed as well as the character of their town threatened with ruin - will turn into further direct action in 2007.

Following the demonstration, it seems that the Miller Group - via their control of Johnston Press - applied pressure to get the Bury Free Press to publish a page spread on John Griffiths on December 8th for the vision of the town and inflict another dose of his claims (or rather, we suspect, those of Mr Steve Bryson of Halogen) as to how much he loves Bury St Edmunds and its people. Identifying him - as if this was news as ". the leader of a council which has come under fierce attack over the Cattle Market proposals", it quoted him (sounding eerily like Winston Smith at the end of 1984) as saying: "I love West Suffolk, love St Edmundsbury, love Bury St Edmunds." Unfortunately, it appears Councillor Griffiths loves other vested interests more (the plans of the East of England Assembly and the Miller Group). However, the article didn't go into the interesting question of just who the friends of Mr Griffiths might be. The breadth of coverage given on December 8th to trying to tell us what a nice man Councillor Griffiths is - it touchingly calls him 'John' so much is the journalist Lesley Anslow in apparent sympathy with him - has not gone unnoticed by Free Press readers. Indeed, correspondents have been disdainful though it is unlikely that a letter explaining just why the Free Press has to be so nice to Mr Griffiths will ever be printed

Frankly, no-one has fallen for the pleas of Cllr Griffiths - indeed a few days later fellow Conservative Councillor Ames announced his own decision to quit (there is no doubt Cllr Ames doesn't fit the Centros Miller image); maybe he was offended at being shut out of one or more events with the developer.

Cllr Paul Farmer a member of the ill-fated Cattle Market Working Ctte parrotted the line that the demonstrators were 'a minority'. It has not been lost on many there that day in person and in spirit that just such a minority converted into votes may be all that's needed to remove the Borough's pathetic councillors forever at the elections in May - including the delightful Mr Farmer who remains so curiously obsessed with turning the Manor House Museum into private homes. Does he have anyone in mind?

Meanwhile David Ruffley MP appears to have woken up to what has going on in the town he represents.
If Mr Ruffley - is he prepared to start asking questions about the links between New Labour and the Edinburgh building industry? Is he prepared to ask questions about how many deals with Government - local and national that Centros Miller have benefited from?
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