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Post by Tony Dunkley on May 12, 2023 8:36:58 GMT
The really interesting stuff, . . the factual details and the whole truth, . . the stuff that C&RT(Ltd) want to keep under wraps at any cost and desparately want to avoid being made public, isn't to be found through any media outlets, Peter. It's on here, though, . . and there's a lot more to come, irrespective of the strenuous effort that C&RT(Ltd) is making to supress it all.
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Post by Murgatroyd on May 12, 2023 8:38:30 GMT
And so the good ship Thunderboat sailed bravely into the future...
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Post by Jim on May 12, 2023 8:41:32 GMT
Word on the street is that he was having a poo in the bushes so they rushed him before he could get his trousers up. Been enquiring about some more brain transplant organs, have you ? We've all been trying to find one for you, hard to get one that doesn't need trimming down to fit in your noggin.
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Post by Tony Dunkley on May 12, 2023 8:43:27 GMT
And so the good ship Thunderboat sailed bravely into the future... I wouldn't bank on it, . . I know what C&RT(Ltd) is doing.
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Post by Murgatroyd on May 12, 2023 8:49:04 GMT
And so the good ship Thunderboat sailed bravely into the future... I wouldn't bank on it, . . I know what C&RT(Ltd) is doing. No Tony. You don't. That's the whole problem.
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Post by Tony Dunkley on May 12, 2023 10:35:35 GMT
A couple more points from non-posting members and Thunderboat guests, . . ref. two very interesting comments, both from the Wiltshire Times live update column, both as they appear on the page. "We make sure that in all cases any decision to remove a boat that is lived on has first been independently scrutinised by a Judge. We act within the law at all times, with the Judge considering each and every case and confirming that we are acting in accordance with our powers under s.8 of the British Waterways Act 1983."
and :- In court orders, the Trust threatened Mr Ward with costs, fines, arrest and possible imprisonment if he resisted or encouraged others to do so.____________________________________________________________________________________________ My thoughts :- * The first is obviously a quote, . . quotation marks, . . the second could or could not be, . . no quotation marks * We act within the law at all times -- strange thing to say, particularly in a sentence that talks - well, LIES actually - about Judges 'considering' individual cases and 'confirming' that the [C&RT(Ltd)] are acting in accordance with our powers under s.8 of the British Waterways Act 1983.". That's nothing but bullshit, . . the way C&RT(Ltd)'s lawyers conduct the process of obtaining their much vaunted and beloved 'Court Orders' is a total sham from start to finish -- a ten minute rubber stamping process with the targeted boat owner NEVER getting the opportunity to put up a Defence at the Court hearing. Why would it ever occur to an outside observer that such a process would not be "within the law" -- why the need to say it at all ?
It's also a mighty strange thing to say in the context of just having been at the centre of what would appear to a bystander as a Police run eviction from and re-possession of someone's boat and home --- a 'giveaway' indicator of what was really going round in the head of whoever was saying it -- guilty conscience and/or knowing that the whole thing had been very 'iffy' from beginning to end.
* In court orders, the Trust threatened Mr Ward with costs, fines, arrest and possible imprisonment if he resisted or encouraged others to do so. That's complete and utter nonsense, . . only the Courts are able/empowered to do that -- not any other body or organisation, . . and certainly not some half-arsed private limited company that goes to endless trouble to put itself across as and masquerade as a charity.
This is a real 'giveaway' ! Whoever let that slip out has - in effect - admitted that the C&RT(Ltd) are lying about the warning printed across the top of every Injunction Order the Courts make. They - C&RT(Ltd) - are subconsciously almost making a statement about how they are lying to boatowners and the Police over the true extent and powers of the Court Orders they have abused and misrepresented for the last 12 years.Several more non-posting members and Thunderboat guests have asked if there are any more comprehensive details about yesterdays goings on available. There are, . . but I haven't got time to post it all right now, or answer all the inevitable questions that'll arise from publishing more info until a bit later on. Believe me, . . it's the most unnecessarily secretive, furtive and strangest sounding 'legal', "within the law" or "scrutinised by a Judge" operation that's ever been heard of since the KGB moved into its new headquarters in Lubyanka Square, . . and everyone knows just how decent, honest and open the KGB have always been.
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Post by Mr Stabby on May 12, 2023 10:40:43 GMT
"You're going to look such a twat when the boat gets towed away next month Tony. Why don't you stick to subjects you actually know something about, like sexually abusing pre-pubescent girls?" (April 25th)
"Dunkley's going to look an even bigger cunt than usual when the boat is taken away, craned out and driven off to Chester sometime early next month". (April 25th)
"When March Hare is removed from the waterway early next month, hopefully the idiot Tony Dunkley will have the decency to fall on his sword and not offer his inane and totally incorrect interpretation of the Law on Thunderboat or anywhere else". (April 26th)
"You're going to look such a twat when George Ward's boat is towed away next week Tony". (May 3rd)
"So what are you going to say when the boat gets towed away this week?" (May 8th)
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Post by on May 12, 2023 10:41:18 GMT
It is just another S8 process. It has happened before and will happen again.
There is no need to build this up into some huge conspiracy. I suppose it passes the time but at the end of the day the bloke was taking the piss, he knew he was taking the piss and he got what was coming. It was a slow train coming but it gets there in the end.
Almost exactly the same thing has happened to other people over the yars. It really isn't all that unusual or difficult to predict.
Your imaginary friends are reasonably amusing to hear about but it doesn't half get boring after a while.
I'm going to watch some dry paint for a bit.
See ya.
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Post by on May 12, 2023 10:46:21 GMT
On a purely technical note it is interesting if one can get a free towpath mooring and basically just move in, including using the towpath for one's private pleasure and defacation and get away with it for ten yars.
I'm sure there arrr some others about who would not mind having a go at this.
Maybe this is what should happen. A free for all. I can't see this being very practical though.
One's behaviour must be basically ruled by the assumption that everyone else might do the same thing. Ask yourself 'if everyone else did this would it still be alright or would the whole thing be totally fucked?'
Ask this question and see what the answer is.
Shit and rubbish all over public footpaths is pikey behaviour. Do you really want to be in support of pikey behaviour?
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Post by Mr Stabby on May 12, 2023 10:46:40 GMT
Your imaginary friends are reasonably amusing to hear about but it doesn't half get boring after a while. These will be the "Thunderboat guests" who are rather strangely able to send private messages without being logged in I presume. Unless of course they are, as you suggest, imaginary.
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Post by on May 12, 2023 10:51:36 GMT
Of course they are imaginary.
I had a close loook at the boat on the truck and it looks really interesting.
The stern is rivetted so rather than being a cut horse boat which had a back end welded on it appears this may be a very early tug conversion. It could be one of the first motorised boats on the canal. Definitely a Bantock but I'm sure they only did horse boats.
This really surprised me. I think this is a proper hysteric boat here.
Might be a really nice engine in there. I wonder what it is.
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Post by on May 12, 2023 10:54:43 GMT
The stern section of the cabin looks a bit ex BW with those handrails.
I think this is actually a really interesting old wreck. Hopefully someone records details of it before it fills with rainwater and turns to shit at Greenwalls Farm.
Old narrow boats are something which TonyDunkley knows a fair bit about but not sure he is in a fit state mentally to discuss topics which are actually interesting.
I am particularly intrigued by the way the end of the top guard iron is cut off but the counter is rivetted. The riveting work is done in overlapping plates which often indicates very old work. I'm wondering if this might be one of the first ever motor narrow boats possibly converted by someone like Ernie Thomas who was known for doing wooden boats with square sterns.
Very intriguing !
The top and bottom of the swim section are also riveted.
Obviously some bodge overplating further forward but that swim and counter is well interesting.
This geyser has lost a really nice boat me thinks. I'd have it !
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Post by bod on May 12, 2023 13:11:41 GMT
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Post by on May 12, 2023 13:20:38 GMT
It appears that the boats were unlicensed. I don't know how it works but I doubt they would have been registered as houseboats at any time.
It is a good point.
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Post by Murgatroyd on May 12, 2023 14:17:58 GMT
Your imaginary friends are reasonably amusing to hear about but it doesn't half get boring after a while. How is Pangelique or whatever her name is anyway?
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