Analysis Topic: Local Issues
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Friday, March 09, 2018
Alison Teal, Green Party Councillor at Sheffield Street Trees Fellings Protests 2018 / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Green Party Councillor Alison Teal at Sheffield's street trees protest on Thornsett Road (Nether Edge) discusses the possibilities of the Green party in Sheffield gaining the balance of power following the outcome of the May 2018 Local Elections. Thornsett Road as well as several Sheffield streets such as Abbeydale Park Rise and Kenwood Road have been subjected to heavy police presence in support of SIA security and Arb's since street tree fellings resumed this month.
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Wednesday, March 07, 2018
Sheffield Tree Felling Protest Arrests and Injuries on Abbeydale Park Rise / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The thawing of the 'Beast from the East' has seen an huge expansion in the level of force deployed against Sheffield's tree felling protestors, with now at least 35 police officers attending felling sites, accompanying 20 or so SIA security and a dozen or so chainsaw wielding Arb's, as has been the case on Abbeydale Park Rise this week. All to fell 20 or so relatively small sized cherry trees that have been the centre point for the areas annual Christmas Lights charity event.
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Tuesday, March 06, 2018
Sheffield Street Fellings Revolution Against Labour City Council Rule / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Following the thawing of the 'Beast from the East', the amount of force being deployed against Sheffield's -tree felling protestors has been ratcheted up to a whole new level, with at least 30 police officers deployed onto Abbeydale Park Rise Road in support of an similar number of SIA security and a dozen or so chainsaw wielding tree fellers, all to fell start felling some 20 relatively small sized cherry trees that have been the centre point for the areas annual Christmas Lights for charity display each December.
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Saturday, March 03, 2018
The 'Beast from the East' Day 3 From Millhouses Park, Sheffield UK / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
It's Day 3 of the 'Beast from the East' weather from Siberia hitting the UK hard with heavy snowfall and wind chill temperatures of -10c, disrupting travel throughout the week as snow flurries continued to fall onto the gritted roads in the coldest weather experienced for at least the past 5 years. On Day 3 we took a trip to one of Sheffield's Millhouses park to see what it was like in the midst of the 'Beast from the East'
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Thursday, March 01, 2018
The 'Beast from the East' UK Extreme Snow Weather - Sheffield Day 2 / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The 'Beast from the East' weather from Siberia finally hit Sheffield on Wednesday Day 2 after the relative mild Tuesday, with heavy snowfall fall of between 5 cm and 10cm disrupting travel throughout the day as snow flurries continued to fall onto the gritted roads in the coldest weather experienced for at least the past 5 years continuing well into the night! Many motorists decided to do the wise thing and leave their vehicles parked rather than risk driving. However, in the interests of wanting to take a better look at the impacts from the 'Beast from the East's heavy snowfall, I decided to hunt down some of the most treacherous roads to drive in Sheffield, none more so then going to the outskirts of Sheffield, literally within throwing distance of Derbyshire as the this video illustrates, driving in the 'Beast from the East'
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Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Sheffield Street Tree Fellings - Pingle Road, Dobcroft School Night Attacks! / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Sheffield tree fellings resumed this week after a 4 week pause following the Mayhem on Meersbrook Park Road on the 22nd of January 2018. Whilst the police have been taking a heavy handed attitude towards the protestors this week. It's what's happening elsewhere that has children weeping on their way to School as they walk past trees that have been attacked and mutilated during the night, literally drive by fellings, leaving behind butchered trees as is the case on Pingle Road at the end of which sits Dobcroft Infants and Junior School.
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Sunday, February 25, 2018
Heavy Police, SIA Security and Media Presence for Sheffield Tree Fellings Monday Meersbrook Park Road / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
After a 4 week break the felling of mostly healthy Sheffield street trees is to resume on Monday 26th Feb from about 7am, as streets such as Meersbrook Park Road and Chatsworth Road will be flooded with police and SIA security personnel tasked with ejecting any peaceful protestors from the cordoned off zones around trees ear marked for destruction. Therefore as was the case a few weeks ago, the protestors are likely to be even more far outnumbered by SIA security and police then in January.
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Saturday, February 24, 2018
Heavy Police Presence at Resumption of Sheffield Street Tree Fellings Protests / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
After a 4 week break the felling of mostly healthy Sheffield street trees is set to resume on Monday 26th Feb, which is being preceded by a concerted establishment propaganda effort in an attempt at frightening off protestors from attending the sites marked with signs such as Chatsworth Road and Meersbrook Park Road, mayhem on which was the catalyst for the initial suspension of street tree fellings in January as the following video illustrates of a tree protestor being allegedly repeatedly assaulted by SIA security:
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Thursday, February 08, 2018
VIDEO: Tree Protesters Occupy Sheffield Town Hall City Council Chamber / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
At the end of Wednesdays monthly Sheffield city council meeting at about 8.30pm, about 20 tree protesters who had been watching the proceedings from the gallery came down and occupied the Council chamber, unfurling a banner "Show us the contract please" referring to the £2.2 billion PFI contract with Amey, and the protesters seating themselves where the Council leader and cabinet members were seated just minutes earlier. The police were called but as of writing have not taken any action as the occupation enters its 6th hour.
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Friday, February 02, 2018
Sheffield Labour City Council Suspends Tree Fellings Until After May 2018 Local Elections / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
It's been quiet and peaceful on Sheffield's streets for the past 10 days since Labour city councilors contractor Amey withdrew their HiViz 'security' and felling crews following the outbreak of violence on the 22nd of January, a day that witnessed police officers turning their backs on screaming protestors whilst Amey's HiViz 'security' forcibly removed protestors from cordoned off tree felling zones as the following video illustrates, a female protestors screaming for the Police to intervene. Instead the officer walks away and turns his back to the scene.
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Monday, January 29, 2018
Shocking Video of Female Sheffield Tree Protestor Screaming for Police Help to Stop Alleged Assault / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Shocking video reveals what is happening on Sheffield's streets 2018, as tree campaigners perfectly legally clinging on to railings are being pulled away by force by the Labour controlled councils contractor Amey's HiViz security, all whilst the police watch in silence, ignoring the desperate screams for help from the lady protestor as the alleged assault takes place resulting in her being dragged away by the contractors security. Also briefly in presence on this day was the local MP Louise Haigh who briefly commented about what was happening.
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Saturday, January 27, 2018
Police Investigate 'Poisoned' Tea Whilst Ignoring Assaults by Bouncers on Tree Protestors / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The mainstream press has jumped onboard the 'Tea Gate' propaganda story of the week, right from the local media through to the broadsheets by focusing on allegations that some Amey tree felling contractors were apparently 'poisoned' last year from cups of tea handed to them by residents. The Daily Mail names a couple, John and Sue Unwin whom detectives have spoken to following allegations made of worker(s) having fallen ill last October shortly after having drunk cups of tea that were handed to them by Dr Unwin, who vehemently denies the allegations as reported by the Daily Mail.
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Saturday, January 27, 2018
Mayhem at Sheffield Street Tree Protests, Police, Bouncers and Multiple Assaults / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
There was literally mayhem on the streets of Sheffield this week as Meersbrook Park Road (MPR) descended into chaos as protestors campaigning to prevent Amey from felling the remaining trees still standing on MPR were met by force from more than a dozen Amey HiViz security bouncers / doormen resulting in multiple assaults taking place all whilst the half dozen or so police offciers watched on in silence, failing to intervene or respond to pleas from the residents and wider public on the road that day.
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Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Charged Atmosphere of Heavy Police and Security Presence at Sheffield Street Tree Felling Protests / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Something bad appears to be brewing at Sheffield's street trees felling sites 2018 as already heavy HiViz security presence as of November 2017 has now been joined by heavy police presence. The immediate effect has been to embolden hired security and Arb's to become more 'aggressive' towards tree protestors which is creating an increasingly charged atmosphere that appears to be building towards an negative event of some kind as the following video illustrates.
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Sunday, January 21, 2018
Bunnies and Geckos of Sheffield Street Tree Fellings Protests Explained / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
As the campaign to protect Sheffield's street trees has evolved over the past few years, so have terms emerged to describe campaigners actions such as Bunnies and Geckos, the meaning of which could be lost on those who don't keep track of what is happening to Sheffield's street trees on virtually every week day. This video illustrates what Gecko's and Bunnies are. The key difference being that Bunnies are usually considered to have breached the city council's injunction whilst Geckos have not.
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Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Police Arrest Tree Protester on Meersbrook Park Road, Sheffield / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The Sheffield city council and it's contractor Amey remain determined to fell Sheffield's biggest trees apparently because the councilors signed a contract that contained a clause that x number of trees would be felled by y date, and so virtually every working day sees hundreds of Sheffielders out on the streets attempting to defend Sheffield's remaining big trees after near 6,000 have already been felled to date with tens of thousand of people supporting the campaign across several facebook groups.
Today saw witness to the Police arresting a tree protestor on Meersbrook Park Road for allegedly obstructing the highway.
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Monday, January 08, 2018
The Real LORAX and Once-ler's of Sheffield's Street Tree Felling's / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
I am sure many will have watched the LORAX
movie with their children that acts as a warning of what can go wrong when corporate greed runs rampant resulting in the destruction of the environment. Unfortunately the people of Sheffield find themselves in a similar predicament as thousands of street trees are being felled by a corporate Once-ler giant named AMEY. In response to which many of Sheffield's ordinary citizens have turned into real life LORAX who speak for Sheffield's street trees. Against whom are martialed the forces of the establishment, a Labour controlled city council and it's £2.2 billion PFI contractor Amey. Where we have been increasingly witnessing the deployment of measures on the streets that go far beyond the realms of what one would expect from a British local city council, instead which resembles private militias roaming the streets along with their green vested evidence gatherers akin to something out of an eastern european dictatorship.
Friday, January 05, 2018
How Arboriculturalists Shredded Their Reputation at Sheffield Tree Felling's 2017 / Local / Environmental Issues
By: N_Walayat
Many Arboriculturalists' fantasise that their 'profession' is all about looking after the well being of Trees, perhaps even dreaming of themselves as being real life LORAX's. However, the Arb rampage across the city of Sheffield during 2017 revealed the reality that Arboriculturalists are Once-ler's NOT LORAX. For 2017 clearly illustrated that it the ordinary people of Sheffield ARE the REAL LORAX, who with everything stacked against them from Judges in their robes, council evidence gatherers, to recruiting bouncer platoons from the north, had ordinary people in vane try to protect Sheffield's remaining street trees from the Arb Army Once-ler onslaught, that likely claimed near 1000 more big tree's bringing the total felled to date to approx 6,000, MOST of which were HEALTHY TREES!
Thursday, January 04, 2018
Sheffield Street Trees 2018, Lorax Prepare for Once-ler Arb Army's Imminent Return / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
2017 witnessed the continuation of the felling of thousands of Sheffield's biggest and best street trees, an estimated 6,000 were felled by the time the arb army's chainsaws fell silent just prior to Christmas day as the Once-ler Arb and their supporting Bouncers retreated Southwards and Northwards, giving the people of Sheffield peace for at least a couple of weeks, but not before butchering several of Abbeydale Park Rise's Christmas light Cherry tree's, leaving behind a bitter Christmas present for the little children to cry over.
Monday, January 01, 2018
Sheffield Street Trees 2017 - Textbook Example of How to Wreck the Environment and Economy / Local / Sheffield
By: Nadeem_Walayat
2017 was the year when the climate change mega-trend made it's presence felt from record breaking global temperatures resulting in deductive giant storms from Hurricanes in the west to Cyclones in the east that have wreaked havoc across the planet, literally destroying every building on many of the smaller Islands hit. However, whilst most recognise the dangers of climate change and are eager to do their bit towards attempting to lessen its unfolding catastrophic consequences of. However in a small provincial corner of England, those in charge of running the city of Sheffield apparently have taken a leaf out of the 'Trumps' book of Ignorance and implemented actions that achieve the exact opposite. One of seeking to destroy the local environment through the actions of felling thousands of big street trees.