Marc Van de Vijver

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What sort of shoddy opportunist behaves like this, for goodness sake. The man should apologize to his constituents, make proper restitution of the status quo and step out of public life, preferably in short order.

My word what's the world coming to.

Appalling, it's the only possible description.

Those villagers believe the memorial's removal is the latest part of a plan to weaken their resolve to campaign to save Doel. Marc Van de Vijver denies this and insists the two issues must not be linked. He says the memorial's future is guaranteed, albeit in another nearby town five or six miles away.

The official said: "We're moving this to protect the monument. We want to continue the tradition that has existed for over 50 years. For the last 10 years we've known this area could be redeveloped so in order to preserve it, we thought it should be relocated."

The mayor also explained that workmen removed the memorial under cover of darkness because they simply wanted to make an early start.

BBC News - Village in uproar as Belgian war memorial relocated



Lying little toerag.

[Bryn Mawr]

I must admit, the explanations leave a lot to be desired - weak is not the word for them