Not sure who I dislike more him or the CA. Both represent entrenched narrow minded focus on a single interest at the expense of anyone else.
I have no respect for him after his misrepresentations of proposals for a closed circuit cycling track near the velodrome at Pride Park in Derby. As far as I could see, beyond the short term disruption, the proposal would have little impact on nesting birds etc on the land. The way he represented it was that the proposal would despoil a pristine natural environment (The land was given over as a nature reserve after the development of Pride Park because the soil buried just below the surface is seriously contaminated and couldn’t be built on without decontamination). As a member of Derbyshire Wildlife Trust and BC I couldn’t see why both couldn’t coexist.
Having been to Chatsworth this weekend and heard some prat in pink trying to explain that fox hunting was basically a working class pursuit (I am sure he didn’t say pursuit of the working class) my view on the CA is pretty similar.