Cunts.

That's what they are.

Every single last one of them.

Cunts.

What am I banging on about?

Remember this from November? (click the picture: it's a link)

It would appear we were a little premature in our joy.

Appeals have been heard, (for legal reasons we can only suspect that) palms have been greased, and the suspiciously renamed Taylor Wimpey Ltd have now managed to get the decision to bar their monolith of shame from the land in front of the Free Trade Inn reversed.

1300 people sign the petition against it, Newcastle City Council tell them to fuck right off, but planning inspector and self-appointed deity John Gray somehow gets to overrule the bolshie peasants, telling us that picturesque views "are made more interesting, sometimes tantalising, when not all is immediately apparent to the eye". Wanker.

Read more about it here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/7474261.stm

Livid, but not in the least bit surprised.

Like I said: cunts.