In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes
>Sue wrote:
>> Is there any mileage in joining up with the Countryside alliance?
>> After all it is the country that will be wrecked.
>If you're joining up with that lot count me out. They bolt together a
>wide range of causes of varying merit then claim that everyone who
>supports any one of those causes supports them all.
>
>I also have a problem with an organisation who go around county shows
>putting stickers on children who are too young to read or understand
>them expressing their support for hunting with dogs, as I saw a couple
>of months ago in Ashbourne.
>
>Anyway presumably they would want even more money taken out of the
>canals pot and dropped into the farming subsidy pot...
>
>Rant over.
>
I was trying to think how to word my view on this suggestion. Steve has
done it for me - if in slightly less temperate words than i would have
chosen! I would still support the proposed campaign anyway but would
be very uncomfortable at it being associated with the Countryside
Alliance. Leaving aside the fact that support for the waterways campaign
doesn't or shouldn't be associated with support for the aims of the CA -
I think that any tie-up would have a negative impact on our campaign.
Views on the CA are very polarised and much of their campaigning
attracts very negative reactions in many quarters (not least in
government).
Just my 2 penn'orth
Guy - countryside dweller all his life
--
Guy Morgan
nb Virgo, WFB, Stockton GU
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