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Inquiry day 18 (Wednesday) The chipping away of Mr Carpenter
My View of the Inquiry day 18 (Wednesday) “The chipping away of Mr Carpenter”
“SCHOOLS OUT FOR SUMMER”; well until April the 12th anyway.
Considering this was the last day of the public inquiry before we all adjourn for a 4 week break, you could say that there was a slight end of school atmosphere about it. Everyone wanted to get away early, some people weren’t interested in answering questions and the bullies were picking on the little kids or in our case, Seagulls supporters taking the piss out of the Nimbys.
We all returned to our usually seats, me 3 rows directly behind Cute Megan, Gaffer sitting next to me so he can stick his tongue out at the Nimbys and Tim Carder sitting 3 seats along from me just so he can throw paper aeroplanes at Martin Perry.
Lord B had his seat in the councils section just to keep himself out of trouble and away from the bullies. They were a few late comers coming in from both sides, but the inspector felt it unwise to give out detentions today.
Mr Carpenter was still suffering from last night’s detention and at the start of todays play had to sit in the dock for about 45 minutes before he said a word. This was because of the lengthy discussion over the future timetable of the inquiry due to Mr Ellis (Cooks Estates) being absent from the inquiry. “Yes more delaying tactics”
Before Mr Carpenter or as I called him Mr MDF got cross examined by Mr Clay he was probably sitting there feeling that he should of received a gold star for keeping his mouth shut.
Mr MDF must of felt that Mr Clay was the inquiries version of the class bully and he would have to eventually tell the teacher (the inspector) about his method of questioning.
Mr Clay asked Mr MDF if he was aware that the City council didn’t want THV built on because of its AONB status and it should stay protected from development, Mr MDF was not shaw what to answer because he had no evidence of the City councils views of the site.
A few questions were put in reference to Falmer where at one point Mr Clay, MDF man and Mr Brier were all trying to unfold one of those big fold-out maps and hold them up and study the surrounding area around Falmer. This would have been a great moment for Roz to capture on camera, because all three of them were looking at the maps with clueless expressions on their faces.
I looked across at Mr Wade (LDC) and found him studying the article in today’s Evening Argus headlined “Albion reject free land for stadium”, I just wondered what he was thinking.
Mr MDF suggested the site at Falmer is within open down land and should not be touched, for which sniggering was heard from our side and the chap sitting in front of me with his mobile ejector seat laughed the loudest, and ended up getting a nasty glare from Mr MDF.
By this stage Mr Clay had put Mr MDF in a body bag and zipped him up with his cross examination, but Mr MDF was slowly trying to get unzipped again by coming back with answers that he though could get him out of trouble.
Mr MDF suggested that THV had good flexibility and the club had a good opportunity to locate a stadium at that site when the club was being run by its previous owners. (not mentioning who)
Mr MDF yet again was not talking into his microphone properly, Mr Brier pipes in and says “can you please speak into your microphone Mr Carpenter” for which he replied “I keep getting away from my nine inches”, I won’t say anymore, I’ll just say the room went silent for a while.
A lot of the opposition witnesses at this inquiry have had problems answering questions with a simple “yes” or “no”, Mr MDF carried on that tradition and said to Mr Brier when challenged “it’s a bit difficult for me to answer “yes” or “no”, Mr Brier not hesitating in his reply said “just a “yes” or “no” will do thank you”.
Mr Clay completed his questioning not long after morning break and seemed pretty satisfied with his work once he sat down, or it may be the fact that Martin Perry had not beaten his score on Doom on Martin’s Laptop.
Miss Mother of the inquiry McPherson performed her questions on poor old Mr MDF, of which on one occasion he called her “Mrs McPherson and not Miss McPherson as it should be.
It was a day of quite a few confusions, Mr Clay got the names of Sheepcote Valley and Toads Hole Valley mixed up, Mr MDF got Mr Hoile confused with Mr Collyer and of course his Miss/Mrs McPherson embarrassing moment as mentioned in the above paragraph. I think they all will be staying behind to do 100 lines.
Mr MDF faced questions from Miss McPherson, Mr Blaney (Cooks Estates) and Mr Brier which took us up to lunch time and the completion of todays work, the end of Mr MDF, and the close of term until April.
There was about a 10 minutes discussion about Mr Briers site visits that will start tomorrow. He had received a message from Mrs McKay who was not in attendance today because her wig got stuck in the blender and was totally ruined. She says that it might be possible to see the Shoreham Harbour site from the water and a perhaps a boat could be provided. But if that goes wrong Mr Brier will be swimming around Shoreham Harbour in his swimming trunks and armbands.
I dedicate my last part to beautiful Megan because I hardly ever mention her do I? She really looked at her best for the last day, and was wearing her usually smartly fitted suit. I could not help but see a slight hint of eye liner around her eyes, and she was wearing her hair up into a small bunch. I am going to miss her for 4 weeks and I may have to leave my Megan report to either Lord B or Gaffer to do because I may not be able to attend in April due to work commitments.
So this may or may not be my last report, but I will let you all know what is happening. Hope you have enjoyed my reports because I enjoyed writing them and have learnt a lot from the inquiry during my time down at the town hall.
SG News at not quite 11 o’clock, Brighton Town Hall
My View of the Inquiry day 18 (Wednesday) “The chipping away of Mr Carpenter”
“SCHOOLS OUT FOR SUMMER”; well until April the 12th anyway.
Considering this was the last day of the public inquiry before we all adjourn for a 4 week break, you could say that there was a slight end of school atmosphere about it. Everyone wanted to get away early, some people weren’t interested in answering questions and the bullies were picking on the little kids or in our case, Seagulls supporters taking the piss out of the Nimbys.
We all returned to our usually seats, me 3 rows directly behind Cute Megan, Gaffer sitting next to me so he can stick his tongue out at the Nimbys and Tim Carder sitting 3 seats along from me just so he can throw paper aeroplanes at Martin Perry.
Lord B had his seat in the councils section just to keep himself out of trouble and away from the bullies. They were a few late comers coming in from both sides, but the inspector felt it unwise to give out detentions today.
Mr Carpenter was still suffering from last night’s detention and at the start of todays play had to sit in the dock for about 45 minutes before he said a word. This was because of the lengthy discussion over the future timetable of the inquiry due to Mr Ellis (Cooks Estates) being absent from the inquiry. “Yes more delaying tactics”
Before Mr Carpenter or as I called him Mr MDF got cross examined by Mr Clay he was probably sitting there feeling that he should of received a gold star for keeping his mouth shut.
Mr MDF must of felt that Mr Clay was the inquiries version of the class bully and he would have to eventually tell the teacher (the inspector) about his method of questioning.
Mr Clay asked Mr MDF if he was aware that the City council didn’t want THV built on because of its AONB status and it should stay protected from development, Mr MDF was not shaw what to answer because he had no evidence of the City councils views of the site.
A few questions were put in reference to Falmer where at one point Mr Clay, MDF man and Mr Brier were all trying to unfold one of those big fold-out maps and hold them up and study the surrounding area around Falmer. This would have been a great moment for Roz to capture on camera, because all three of them were looking at the maps with clueless expressions on their faces.
I looked across at Mr Wade (LDC) and found him studying the article in today’s Evening Argus headlined “Albion reject free land for stadium”, I just wondered what he was thinking.
Mr MDF suggested the site at Falmer is within open down land and should not be touched, for which sniggering was heard from our side and the chap sitting in front of me with his mobile ejector seat laughed the loudest, and ended up getting a nasty glare from Mr MDF.
By this stage Mr Clay had put Mr MDF in a body bag and zipped him up with his cross examination, but Mr MDF was slowly trying to get unzipped again by coming back with answers that he though could get him out of trouble.
Mr MDF suggested that THV had good flexibility and the club had a good opportunity to locate a stadium at that site when the club was being run by its previous owners. (not mentioning who)
Mr MDF yet again was not talking into his microphone properly, Mr Brier pipes in and says “can you please speak into your microphone Mr Carpenter” for which he replied “I keep getting away from my nine inches”, I won’t say anymore, I’ll just say the room went silent for a while.
A lot of the opposition witnesses at this inquiry have had problems answering questions with a simple “yes” or “no”, Mr MDF carried on that tradition and said to Mr Brier when challenged “it’s a bit difficult for me to answer “yes” or “no”, Mr Brier not hesitating in his reply said “just a “yes” or “no” will do thank you”.
Mr Clay completed his questioning not long after morning break and seemed pretty satisfied with his work once he sat down, or it may be the fact that Martin Perry had not beaten his score on Doom on Martin’s Laptop.
Miss Mother of the inquiry McPherson performed her questions on poor old Mr MDF, of which on one occasion he called her “Mrs McPherson and not Miss McPherson as it should be.
It was a day of quite a few confusions, Mr Clay got the names of Sheepcote Valley and Toads Hole Valley mixed up, Mr MDF got Mr Hoile confused with Mr Collyer and of course his Miss/Mrs McPherson embarrassing moment as mentioned in the above paragraph. I think they all will be staying behind to do 100 lines.
Mr MDF faced questions from Miss McPherson, Mr Blaney (Cooks Estates) and Mr Brier which took us up to lunch time and the completion of todays work, the end of Mr MDF, and the close of term until April.
There was about a 10 minutes discussion about Mr Briers site visits that will start tomorrow. He had received a message from Mrs McKay who was not in attendance today because her wig got stuck in the blender and was totally ruined. She says that it might be possible to see the Shoreham Harbour site from the water and a perhaps a boat could be provided. But if that goes wrong Mr Brier will be swimming around Shoreham Harbour in his swimming trunks and armbands.
I dedicate my last part to beautiful Megan because I hardly ever mention her do I? She really looked at her best for the last day, and was wearing her usually smartly fitted suit. I could not help but see a slight hint of eye liner around her eyes, and she was wearing her hair up into a small bunch. I am going to miss her for 4 weeks and I may have to leave my Megan report to either Lord B or Gaffer to do because I may not be able to attend in April due to work commitments.
So this may or may not be my last report, but I will let you all know what is happening. Hope you have enjoyed my reports because I enjoyed writing them and have learnt a lot from the inquiry during my time down at the town hall.
SG News at not quite 11 o’clock, Brighton Town Hall
