Hi Ray
Well politics is both incredibly important and simultaneously daft in so many cases.
When I was a Councillor, and Chairman of Planning, we had an application plea from a member of the public to erect a 'Beware Ducks Crossing' sign ( Mother ducks herding their little flocks across a main road ), up by a water meadow.Of course we wanted to but had to check with the Highways Department, The Ministry for Transport, The National Trust,who also had their signs in the same area, the Local Planning department, The County Planning Department, The Regional Planning Department, the Bylaws, The Parks Authority, who are a Quango, The adjacent Farm Owners, Consider the Environmental Impact and do a report, submit said report to local Police, Fire Service and Park Rangers for their input, check with the fishermen's organisations for feedback and seek planning approval from near neighbouring houses and the pub.That was without us taking it to a meeting for a vote first and after all the approvals to pass it into being..then work out which Council Budget it should come from.
Ray..Do you have any idea what the major sticking point was ?
'Are the Ducks Privately owned, Publicly owned, or just....Ducks ?
If Private a whole new process would start. If donated were there any conditions e.g. are the ducks in the right place ?
In the end the farmer put countdown type wooden signs with Duck Logos on HIS verges, which was absolutely fine, and the other farmer did the same on his side of the road for the oncoming traffic.
And you think America has problems !
Yve