Clitheroe bonfire protesters force safety rethink (From Lancashire Telegraph)

What a joke!! If there were more organised bonfires like the one held in Clitheroe each year, perhaps the public would not have to resort to making their own and needing to call out the emergency services when something goes wrong. Health and safety has gone mad! We will all need permission to breathe shortly. Will we be declined this due to health and safety reasons, i.e. if we breathe, someone might catch our germs!!

Happy Soul wrote:
What a joke!! If there were more organised bonfires like the one held in Clitheroe each year, perhaps the public would not have to resort to making their own and needing to call out the emergency services when something goes wrong. Health and safety has gone mad! We will all need permission to breathe shortly. Will we be declined this due to health and safety reasons, i.e. if we breathe, someone might catch our germs!!

Well said let’s get bonfires organised, are a fund raiser if done right. It’s not the fireworks that cause the problem it’s the miss use of them. I all the guidelines are followed they are safe. However early sales causes other problems. Thought bangers and the like had been banned, however I’ve heard them of late. These can cause major damage if they are thrown or misused. An organised bonfire also prevents animals becoming distressed; I am in favour of organised venues.

Sadly people in Clitheroe expect nothing more than stupidity these days from the council..This is just an example

70 people! Take out the friends and family of the organisers and yu have how many others??

ESAG!!

Absolutely hilarious.

Another bunch of non-job, paper-shuffling, box-ticking, parasites, busy trying to justify their worthless existences at the tax payers' expense.

Does anyone remember when people used to simply use their common sense and there was no need for nonsense like "ESAG?"

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Sign the petition against these idiots.

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the power goes straight to some peoples head. they are on some tin pot committee and think they are ruling the country, but thats the type of people these organisations attract.

prince of darkness wrote:

Happy Soul wrote:
What a joke!! If there were more organised bonfires like the one held in Clitheroe each year, perhaps the public would not have to resort to making their own and needing to call out the emergency services when something goes wrong. Health and safety has gone mad! We will all need permission to breathe shortly. Will we be declined this due to health and safety reasons, i.e. if we breathe, someone might catch our germs!!

Well said let’s get bonfires organised, are a fund raiser if done right. It’s not the fireworks that cause the problem it’s the miss use of them. I all the guidelines are followed they are safe. However early sales causes other problems. Thought bangers and the like had been banned, however I’ve heard them of late. These can cause major damage if they are thrown or misused. An organised bonfire also prevents animals becoming distressed; I am in favour of organised venues.

I'm in favour of people being allowed to choose what they want.If they want to let off fireworks in their garden, let them if they want to go to an organised event, let them.

Why should responsible people who use fireworks properly to entertain family and friends have that right to enjoy fireworks safely at home taken away by organised events only? A ban will only push trade/sale of fireworks underground to an illegal blackmarket that cannot be easily regulated prevented or stopped. Also the fireworks that these illegal traders would flog probably wont comply to any product safety standards and could injure burn blind kill or maim or scar the user if they malfunction or go wrong in use or injure spectators. British Standard 7114 compliant fireworks in accordance with their instructiond used properly do not, as a rule, in general cause problems/injuries. Only misuse and abuse of them does.

AnthonyUK wrote:
Why should responsible people who use fireworks properly to entertain family and friends have that right to enjoy fireworks safely at home taken away by organised events only? A ban will only push trade/sale of fireworks underground to an illegal blackmarket that cannot be easily regulated prevented or stopped. Also the fireworks that these illegal traders would flog probably wont comply to any product safety standards and could injure burn blind kill or maim or scar the user if they malfunction or go wrong in use or injure spectators. British Standard 7114 compliant fireworks in accordance with their instructiond used properly do not, as a rule, in general cause problems/injuries. Only misuse and abuse of them does.

Oh heck... mention fireworks and off he goes.

happycyclist wrote:

AnthonyUK wrote:
Why should responsible people who use fireworks properly to entertain family and friends have that right to enjoy fireworks safely at home taken away by organised events only? A ban will only push trade/sale of fireworks underground to an illegal blackmarket that cannot be easily regulated prevented or stopped. Also the fireworks that these illegal traders would flog probably wont comply to any product safety standards and could injure burn blind kill or maim or scar the user if they malfunction or go wrong in use or injure spectators. British Standard 7114 compliant fireworks in accordance with their instructiond used properly do not, as a rule, in general cause problems/injuries. Only misuse and abuse of them does.

Oh heck... mention fireworks and off he goes.

and you dont like the truth happycyclist when it hits you either!