Petty council killjoys just want to make our lives miserable
Thus, such an envelope was waiting on the bar for Vasil Vasilev, manager of the Trafalgar Tavern in Greenwich, when he arrived for work one morning recently at the 188-year-old pub. And what dastardly infringement was the establishment in breach of? He was pretty sure there were no roaches in the kitchen and no rodents nibbling at the carpets. The place was noisy, but no more than usual.
The Trafalgar, which opened in the year of Queen Victoria's succession, is on the banks of the River Thames. And by the iron balustrade, overlooking the sandy banks of the river, on the cobbled streets beside the pub, are pub benches and umbrellas. And it's this seating that has stirred Greenwich council into crafting its officious missive.
The planning inspectorate has ordered the pub to stop using the land for drinking and dining and demanded that all seats, tables and umbrellas be removed.
This, in spite of the cobbled area of the Thames Path known as the 'ramp and knuckle' being leased to the pub's landlord Frank Dowling by the Greenwich Foundation, for which he pays an annual rent and having, he claims, signed a formal agreed with Greenwich Council in 2005 to use the space under what is known as a 'Section 16 arrangement'.
'It's just ridiculous,' said Mr Vasilev. 'We are not blocking pedestrian access – there's plenty of room.'
He adds that there are three to four metres of space and as folk drink, there's a familiar sight of joggers passing and mothers pushing prams. On a warm day, customers spill out onto the ramp and knuckle, and admittedly, on a very busy day, it can be a bit of a squeeze for passers-by to navigate the merry throng. But the world kept turning. Until a council killjoy received an email or letter, which is the sort of thing that gets them up in the morning: a complaint.
It only takes one complaint for a council bod to get fire in the belly, a rush of adrenaline through the veins. So, doubtless by lunchtime, they'd hit upon that slam-dunk reasoning that the seating was restricting access for emergency vehicles. Add to that the glorious words of 'people in wheelchairs and the elderly' and they had their unarguable case. As the council puts it: 'There are planning policies in place that we need to follow.'
The message being: pubgoers might be having fun, but lives are in danger. So while thousands of people have used and continue to use the ramp and knuckle and with very few, if any, lives lost thus far, a handful of grumbles see the heavy wheels of the council turning: ahead is pleasure, and it must be crushed.
And such is the state of our planning system; such is the demonic power-hungry appetite of a fevered council official, that the miserable few get to lord it over the benign majority.
As Somerset Council recently wrecked the Milverton Street Fair, citing safety, so their Greenwich comrades seek to destroy some Victory IPA-fuelled fun in a little old patch of southeast London.
Using some unorthodox tactics and against the odds, Horatio Nelson won his great battle of 1805, albeit losing his life in the process. Let's hope with rather less bloodshed this battle of Trafalgar also sees the right side triumph. And as to tactics for Commanders Dowling and Vasilev, they might heed what Nelson once advised one Captain Thomas Cochran: 'Never mind manoeuvres, always go at them.'
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In a recent case, on Jan. 23, 2024, a Chinese man wielded a metal bar and uttered death threats against Falun Gong practitioners who were raising awareness of the persecution outside the Chinese Consulate's visa office in Toronto. He took photos of the practitioners, threatened to kill them, and damaged one of their banners, according to a 2024 report submitted to Canada's Foreign Interference Commission by the Falun Dafa Association of Canada. He was arrested. In another case, Canada-based practitioner Helen Li, who often participated in activities to highlight the persecution, came across a Chinese man outside her residence in the fall of 2022 who said he knew who her father was. Although she ignored him, she says her father in China began to receive intimidation calls from local police, asking him to persuade her to stop practicing Falun Gong. In an incident practitioners describe as discrimination and extension of Beijing's repression abroad, Gerry Smith, a Falun Gong practitioner, was asked in 2019 by the CEO of the Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival to remove a shirt he was wearing with words related to the spiritual practice, citing sponsorship of the event by the Chinese embassy. Smith then filed a complaint to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario. Four years later, the festival issued a public apology to Smith, saying it welcomes attendees from 'every race, religion, ethnicity and creed.' Meanwhile, Beijing's interference attempts have become more 'hidden and invisible,' says the 2024 report, with impersonation attempts becoming more prominent since 2010. Numerous municipal, provincial, and federal politicians have received bogus emails from people claiming to be Falun Gong practitioners who use extreme language in an attempt to discredit the group, according to the Falun Dafa Association of Canada. One such email was sent to Tory MP Scott Reid in 2015 by someone claiming to be a colleague of 'Ms. Grace'–presumably Grace Wollensak, spokesperson for the Falun Dafa Association of Canada–and made several 'bizarre' statements, according to the 2024 report. Wollensak said she didn't know anyone by the sender's name and that the content was not something a practitioner would say. Wollensak later learned other MPs had received similar emails after one MP complained to her about the aggressive language used in the messages. Wollensak confirmed the emails, some of which claimed to be from senders related to her, were fake. In a recent escalation of Beijing's repression of Falun Gong abroad, U.S. performing arts company Shen Yun, which is founded by Falun Gong practitioners, has faced numerous false threats globally. This includes bomb or shooting threats targeting Shen Yun performances in four Canadian cities this year. 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The Hong Kong National Security Department said the group was suspected of organizing, establishing, or taking part in a project called the Hong Kong Parliament, whose goals include promoting self-determination and drafting a Hong Kong democratic charter. Canada responded to the measures the following day, describing them as an escalation of Beijing's transnational repression. 'This attempt by Hong Kong authorities to conduct transnational repression abroad, including by issuing threats, intimidation or coercion against Canadians or those in Canada, will not be tolerated,' Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said in a joint statement with Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree. The ministers added that Canadian intelligence had found the information on the recent bounties was being amplified in an 'inauthentic and coordinated' way by online accounts targeting Chinese-speaking communities in Canada. They also urged anyone who felt unsafe due to transnational repression to contact the RCMP. One such well-known case in Canada unfolded earlier this year, after it came to light that Hong Kong authorities had issued a bounty on a Canadian citizen and Tory candidate Joe Tay, an outspoken Hong Kong pro-democracy activist. His situation drew national attention when it was reported in March that Paul Chiang, then an incumbent Liberal candidate for the Ontario riding of Markham-Unionville, had suggested Tay, his then-rival, be handed over to the Toronto Chinese consulate to collect the bounty placed on him. After his comments became public, Chiang issued an apology. Tay said no apology was sufficient, adding that the situation left him fearing for his safety and that he had previously contacted the RCMP about his personal protection. 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The misinformation operation may have cost Chiu his seat, the commissioner said in a preliminary report released on May 3, 2024. During that same federal election, the Conservative Party and its then-leader, Erin O'Toole, were also targeted by false reports spread by Chinese language media linked to the Chinese regime, the final report says. The targeting was likely due to the party's critical stances toward Beijing, according to O'Toole. Suppressed Ethnic Groups: Tibetans Advocates for Tibetan autonomy and Tibetans' human rights have also faced repression in Canada. Beijing has long been under international scrutiny for its human rights abuses in Tibet, which it began to occupy in 1950. While China describes its takeover of Tibet as a 'peaceful liberation' that helped the region evolve from a 'feudal serfdom under theocracy' to a land of 'modernization,' the Tibetan government-in-exile calls it a 'military invasion' that has led to the 'destruction' of Tibet's culture, environment, and human rights. Human rights abuses in Tibet include unlawful or arbitrary killings and arrests, disappearances, torture, and cases of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment or punishment by the Chinese regime, according to a 2022 U.S. Department of State report, which also notes Tibetans abroad face transnational repression. Several Tibetan-Canadian communities have been 'systematically targeted by malware-enabled espionage operations that aim to compromise their communications for the purpose of performing surveillance,' according to a 2017 report by Amnesty International Canada and the Canadian Coalition on Human Rights titled 'Harassment and Intimidation of Individuals in Canada Working on China-related Activism.' In one case, Citizen Lab, an interdisciplinary lab at the University of Toronto, found a malware campaign that targeted a Tibetan-Canadian was associated with APT1 –one of China's cyber espionage units linked to the People's Liberation Army. Other examples of Beijing's targeting of the Tibetan community include the creation of associations that claim to represent the diaspora but promote the Chinese regime's narrative on Tibet, according to an updated Amnesty International report, published in 2020. 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Threats against relatives in China are another tactic used by Chinese officials, experienced first-hand by several Uyghur individuals in Canada, the 2020 report says, adding that the measures are generally aimed at pressuring diaspora members to become informants or cease their activism abroad. Mehmet Tohti, executive director of the Canada-based Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project, has been sounding the alarm over the situation in Xinjiang and Uyghurs abroad. 'Canadian citizens of Uighur origin have been victimized through harassment, threats and intimidation by the Chinese government and through hostage taking of their family members for a long time,' he told a House committee meeting in 2018. 'The Chinese government basically controls the Uighurs abroad by taking their family members hostage and at the same time applying pressure to control them to serve or work for the Chinese government.' 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The Chinese consulate in Toronto denied the allegations but did not condemn the views expressed against Lhamo, describing them as 'an entirely spontaneous action of those Chinese students based on objective facts and patriotic enthusiasm,' and adding that 'the Chinese government firmly opposes anti-China separatist activities by 'Tibet independence' activists.' In a similar case, a Uyghur activist who gave a lecture in 2019 at McMaster University on human rights violations in Xinjiang was filmed and her talk was interrupted by a student who yelled insults at her. Her presentation was condemned and protested by five Chinese student groups, who claimed it promoted 'hatred' against China. Social media screenshots revealed the protest was coordinated by students in contact with the Chinese consulate in Toronto, which had asked them to report their observations. The Chinese Embassy in Ottawa said neither the embassy nor the Chinese consulate had anything to do with the incident, but praised the actions of the protestors. 'We strongly support the just and patriotic actions of Chinese students,' the embassy said in a statement. In its 2024 report 'On My Campus, I Am Afraid,' which examines the intimidation and harassment of Chinese and Hong Kong students studying abroad—including at Canadian universities—Amnesty International documented accounts of students being photographed and followed at protests in their host cities. Many also reported that their families in China were targeted in retaliation for their activism overseas. It cites the case of a student referred to as Rowan, whose real name is not disclosed for safety reasons, who heard from her father in China within hours of attending a commemoration of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. 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Foreign Agent Registry For months, Gloria Fung has been advocating for the swift implementation of the foreign influence transparency registry, a key measure proposed in legislation known as 'An Act respecting countering foreign interference,' which received royal assent in June 2024. The registry would require anyone working with a foreign entity to report to the foreign influence transparency commissioner when those activities relate to Canada's political processes. Failure to abide is punishable by a fine of up to $5 million or imprisonment up to five years. The foreign influence registry has not yet been established, though Senior Public Safety Canada officials previously said the registry would likely be ready in June this year. Public Safety told The Epoch Times last month the department is actively working on the project, but provided no timeline for the rollout, calling it a 'significant undertaking.' Meanwhile, Public Safety Canada says it has been actively responding to transnational repression, citing immediate changes that took effect with the passing of the legislation. '[The act] introduced legislative measures to better equip the government to detect, disrupt, and protect against foreign interference threats and transnational repression in Canada, including new criminal offences,' spokesperson Max Watson previously told The Epoch Times. He added that in Canada, the government and law enforcement have been working with at-risk communities and offering tools to protect them from transnational repression, and that internationally, Ottawa is working with partners to tackle the global threat. Fung calls the delay in establishing the registry 'troubling and disappointing,' adding that its prompt implementation is essential to effectively combat transnational repression. 'We can't afford to further delay our action in combating TNR and foreign interference,' she said. 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