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    ANNE GILES wrote:
    ConradTurner wrote:
    Dear Councilor Thomas, or may I call you Philip. I read your comments about the march against the Croydon Incinerator, and oh Philip it did make me sad.

    You said that everyone there was either Labour, Green Party members or people who like to go on marches. But the thing is Philip, when you come out with statements like that without checking the facts, well I am sorry to say, but it just makes you sound like a ninny, and nobody likes that. I was at the march, it was my first march ever, and I do not side with either of the political parties that you mentioned, and there were other people there just like me.

    Now Philip, when you say things like that and people know you are wrong, well they just might start to think "Hang on a jolly minute. If Philip was wrong about that, then maybe he is wrong about the whole Incinerator thing as well". and also Philip, your comments did sound a tiny bit condescending, - now that is a big word, perhaps you could look it up in the dictionary after you have finished reading this.

    When we arrived at the town hall, we did call for you, but there was no answer. I do not think you were in, In fact there wasn't anybody there at all from the council to talk to us. It was almost as if nobody wanted to tell us all what a jolly super idea the incinerator was, or perhaps you were all at home having a bonfires in your gardens.
    And why were you expecting them to be there on a Sunday? Why march on a Sunday at all? They don't have to be at work on a Sunday, get it?
    Odd, because they do not have a problem with Sundays when they are out canvasing for my vote. Oh yes, I get it all right."
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Protest march through Croydon against Beddington Lane incinerator

Campaigners against the planned incinerator Campaigners against the planned incinerator

Campaigners marched through town in protest against an incinerator, planned for the border of Sutton and Croydon, which would burn more than 200,000 tonnes of waste a year.

Organised by group Stop the Incinerator, around 100 protestors marched from Croydon University Hospital on Sunday May 13 to Croydon Town Hall, Katharine Street to highlight anger over plans for an incinerator on Beddington Lane.

Marching along London Road and North End, the group laid a wreath outside the town hall before holding rallying speeches at Queens Gardens.

Shasha Khan, a member of Croydon Green Party and Stop the Incinerator, said: “We laid the wreathe as a symbol to the death of democracy. It seems our council would rather serve the interests of corporations than its public.”

A full planning application for the incinerator is expected from waste management company Viridor in June.

The company was chosen to handle waste from Croydon, Kingston, Sutton and Merton by the South London Waste Partnership (SLWP), made up of members from each area’s council, at the end of last year.

Mr Khan added: “There were people from Sutton Merton and Croydon there. This is not a political matter – the ruling party in each council has given this the go-ahead because they are thinking about costs and the increasing price of landfill.

"We would like to see Conservative counsellors from Croydon step forward and join us to protest this plan.”

Coun Phil Thomas, cabinet member for environment and highways at Croydon Council and chairman of the SLWP , said: “The organisers of the march must have been disappointed by the turnout, most people were either Labour of Green Party members and the remainder of the people are those who like to go on marches."

He accused campaigners of spreading misinformation about the potential impact of an incinerator.

He said: “All they are interested in is scare-mongering.

“There are 400 plus facilities of this kind across Europe and the UK. Can they find anywhere in the world where they have cause any health problems?”

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