On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 19:03:07 +0100, Sue wrote: >>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. >> >>Steve >>NB Bream > >I understand that you may not like/approve of Countryside Alliance methods. >You may not approve of all the ideas that the 'waterways movement' cook up, >but to be prepared to see the grant disappear seems to be cutting off your >nose to spite your face. >The CA are fighting for the countryside not saying we will fight for this bit >but not that bit. You noticed the children >wearing stickers, would you have read stickers on adults?
But this isn't a countryside campaign. It's a waterways campaign. I'm not rubbishing the Countryside Alliance idea, although I'm sceptical about us hitching our star to another body, but... Although the idea of a boat drifting through the country is a good way to sell the canals, the urban canals are likely to be every bit as much at risk as the countryside ones (there's no shortage of countryside, but there is a great shortage of land in towns - how many of our arms and basins to we want to see "modernised into a rubbish tip"?). >I hope we now don't start a fox hunting thread. Exactly. The CA will always be linked with fox hunting - and this is something that divides people like almost nothing else. Linking with it could end up costing us as much in explaining how we are different as we could gain - or even more. -- On-line canal route planner: http://www.canalplan.org.uk (Waterways World site of the month, April 2001) My Reply-To address *is* valid, though likely to die soon Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
