On 30/01/07, Nick Atty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Steve Haywood is right that BW were going to cut 180 jobs anyway and > that this is a bad thing for the waterways.
Actually, in the interests of accuracy, and knowing as I do it will make me very unpopular with Dorothy, I have so say that this isn't what I think. I think that BW's decision to cut its office workforce, tough decision though it was, was actually the right decision and in the best interest of the waterways. I'm afraid I had begun to think that the Watford bureaucratic head had got too big for the corporate body. I accepted BW's argument that the cuts would lead to greater efficiencies, and I regret that the DEFRA cuts led to the changes being introduced in a far cruder and more damaging way than was necessary. However, I would make an exception, based entirely on ignorance. I know that there are arguments for the retention of the freight division at existing levels, but I have yet to hear what they are. In the interests of the debate, is there anyone on the list that could make a case for the defence? Steve
