On 21 May 2007, at 10:54, family wrote:
> Adrian said ' There will be ten <moorings> created nearby for every one
> closed.'
> But will the one space left on-line be filled by a boat whose keeper
> pays no
> money to BW at all? There will be plenty of space freed up for them!
> There
> seem to be increasing lines of these on our travels, and they aren't
> going
> to pootle off into Marinas. Indeed, one wonders how many boat owners
> who can
> just about manage to pay their share will be priced out of the market
> yet
> will retain places on the water. I choose not to use the word
> 'boaters' as
> some of them are primarily dwellers, with little interest in the
> maintenance
> or heritage of the system, they could easily become water-squatters
> because
> they have nowhere else to go.
>
> A thought, if housing benefit covers the fees of some moorers, is
> there an
> upper limit that councils will pay, does the concept of fair rent
> agreement
> come into play if it's only the space a council pays for?
>
Well said that woman. In fact, this piece of Thatcherism, like all the
others, will create an underclass (or rather, magnify the existing
one), with all the usual consequences for all of us. It's what happens
when you let the market operate in an inappropriate situation without
modifying its effects.
Bit like the World Bank forcing free market ideology on the poorest
countries, and destroying far more social fabric than it creates.
––
All the best
Bruce
"Houses are but badly built boats so firmly aground you cannot think of
moving them" Arthur Ransome, 'Racundra's First Cruise'
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