A deep concern

Pausing only to wipe the froth from his mouth occasionally, Ludwick managed to cause great concern in the Moot House yesterday with his speech, "Why you can all get out".

We have always been an accepting Community, happy to allow anyone to believe anything they like as long as they have the same attitude to everybody else.  But Ludwick has concerned us.  His argument is based on a claim that I strongly suspect is erroneous - that his people ruled the entire glacier that lay above Husborne Crawley 17,000 years ago and therefore the Great House and all the associated  farmland belongs to him.  He has issued us with a document explaining that, in accordance with his inheritance, he gives us three days to get out.  To help him in this he proposes to employ Bloodwort, who until a few days ago we regarded as one of the dimmest Beaker Folk and useful only for banging holes in doilies, holding up cross-bars when the goalposts are broken and claiming the dole.  Now he is dressed in a bomber jacket and with his new number 2 haircut and tattoos, we realise he is in fact, when directed, a force to be reckoned with.

You see, we have a lot of people with different views around the place - the Moon Gibbon Folk (currently trying to work out whether reduced wages and doing what you're told is a price worth paying), the Kirsty Worshippers and so on.  And we deal with them by telling them that all viewpoints are valid as long as you keep paying your "voluntary" contributions.  But Ludwick insists that in fact we're all wrong, and what are we going to do about it?  When people we consider may expose us to undue argument try to join our community from the outside, we just don't let them in.  But with Ludwick who's already here, it's not so easy.  Even sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting "la-la-la I can't hear you!" doesn't work when Bloodwort is poking you in the ribs with a pointy stick.

It's all very upsetting.  We must consider what to do.