Reply #23: Amazingly the controversy is still rumbling on

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The local council have recently commissioned a report from Statoscan the company who provide the geophysicists on the Channel 4 program Time Team. They have revealed the presence of toxic metals in the defences. This means that they can not simply be dug out and crushed into aggregate as was originally intended. In fact the presence of toxins means the cost of removal is likely to be prohibitive. The beach is technically a parish matter but the scale of the problem means it has been elevated to an issue in the local council elections. To be fair to the local Conservative council I think that they are trying to resolve the problem as best they can. However, the opposition Liberal Democrats have seized on the issue as a way to win votes amongst worried residents. A lot of their literature on the matter seems pretty fraudulent but I may be a bit biased as I find the local bunch of Lib Dems a pretty unpleasant crowd. The real villains of the piece are not surprisingly central government in the form of the MOD who adamantly refuse to take responsibility for the junk they have left behind. No one seems very keen on my idea of sticking the crap on the back of a lorry and dumping it at the entrance of Downing Street.