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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Pigwidgeon" <simon at h...> wrote:
> 
> I heard the following yesterday, but stess that I do not know if it 
> is true. If it is then it really shows what politicans are like.
> 
> In the UK we have local government elections coming up (3rd May 
> IIRC). Under UK law elections cannot be held when a state of 
> emergency has been declared. To call the military in properly 
(rather 
> than just the military police as we have already done), to help 
out, 
> constitutes declaring a national emergency. So, as the Government 
> does not want the elections cancelled, they will not call in the 
> military.
> 
> As I said I do not know if this is true, but p*sses me off to think 
> it might be.
> 

Sounds very true! And there was that claim recently that two weeks or 
so before the first outbreak, the Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries 
(MAF) was contacting wood merchants asking to buy large stocks of 
kindling wood.

There is also a claim (in Private Eye, so read into it what you will) 
that MAF knew of the problem in December last year and sent warnings 
in strict confidence to other European governments.

Wotan

(For our American readers - Private Eye is a 'scurrilous' magazine 
that pokes fun at the Establishment, but which nevertheless has come 
up with some great scoops in its time)