Seahorses .... again!

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Posh yachties wipe out Britain's largest colony of seahorses by dropping anchor on their habitat ........... so says the Daily Mail ...... don't read the article, it will make your blood boil. They've excelled themselves this time! Anyone with a boat is now damned forever!
 
Old Harry and BORG are well used to fighting this sort of tosh; I can confidently say this is the Seahorse Association - a fund raising charity consisting of one person, Neil Garrick Maidment - is throwing his toys out of the pram because he looked foolish at a recent meeting.

Fortunately Old Harry has proven a very good diplomat and has the ear of those who really matter.
 
That's a shocker. It's a rewrite of info fed to them by the Seahorse Trust with no attempt at balance. Just as well no one takes the Fail seriously.
 
Merry Girl said:
That's a shocker. It's a rewrite of info fed to them by the Seahorse Trust with no attempt at balance. Just as well no one takes the Fail seriously.
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Don't make the mistake of thinking that. That is the number one online paper world wide, and the paper circulates nearly two million a day.... In reality the mail has the most political clout of any paper in the uk.

Its a fecking stroke of genius that a bunch of lefty beardies have actually used there enemy to screw us....

It needs a concerted response, Or in one swift move our position will be lost...
 
Photodog,

the ' group of leftie beardies ' is ONE person running this money taking charity...

I bet for anything this is because he was made to look a fool by Old Harry and BORG at a recent meeting; he had been getting quite pally but now he's obviously a bit miffed.

It's a shame the Mail didn't bother trying journalism, but Old Harry has proven a very good diplomat and has the ear of those who really matter.
 
maby said:
The article is suggesting mooring buoys, not a complete ban on entering the bay.
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Maby,

this has been binned along time ago; there were ideas of 50 Environmentally Friendly Moorings - EFM's - in the bay.

Then the govt body responsible - I forget which - did a study of ' how much to install, maintain, man this, and what's the insurance angle on a mooring system untried in the UK ?

And promptly ran away screaming. No chance.
 
I venture that three quarters of the ladees sitting on the 'luxury boats' pictured anchored read the bloody Wail too!

The paper might just possibly have an anti boaty stance? They did a snidey piece on Princess Anne's boats too iirc.

Maybe Justin Wobblebottom or whatever the hapless journo's name is, has been cornered and bevied up and hypnotised by ' chip on his shoulder' didactic Gargoyle Merrymerman.
( since name slinging seems to be the name of the smear game here... Yotties park close to the shore to show off??Bonkers)
 
One reason I'm a 'boaty' is to get away from the crowd.

Who in their right mind wishes to moor/anchor amongst that number of craft on a hot day anyway, unless you'r

desperate of need to use it at the end of a day sailing from France or waiting to go over to France early the next

day?...........

Not much better than being on crowded beach imho

Looking at some of the type of vessels anchored in The Mail photo, the headline is possibly right

about some of the owners.... I would count myself wealthy if I could affords some of them therefore in many

peoples eyes I have to be posh.... that is until I open my mouth and they find out I'm a Berkshire urchin. .

What happened to the buoyed off area that was meant to be a trial area for not anchoring? I

could see no reason why it shouldn't have had a fair try.... or did it and the sea horses bolted?!
 
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It would be interesting to know how many of the Mail's management and staff have boats that anchor in Studland Bay!

FOI request anyone?
 
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