On 16 Sep 2007, at 20:00, Robin Smithett wrote:
> And if it weren't for APCO members, where would all other boaters be?
> Priced off the waterways long ago, with no facilities and no hire
> boats for
> beginners.
>
and Adrian wrote:
> I thought it was BW's job to be on the side of the waterways, not of
> any particular type of user of them.
>
It seems to me that both these responses are disingenuous - true as far
as they go, but not acknowledging the real complexity of real life.
I don't know Sally Ash personally, so no doubt have a biased view of
her, just as I do of a number of contributors to this list. But both
the pointless and expensive consultation on licence structures that led
to precisely no change and the current moorings tendering "trial" are
clearly to APCO's advantage rather than that of any other stakeholder
group. On the evidence available to me, therefore, the criticism of BW
in general and of Sally in particular seems to be justified.
Like a lot of things, it's very hard to know where the truth lies, if
indeed we can have an acontextual "truth" in these matters.
––
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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