--- In [email protected], Guy Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, dave hearnden > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > > > >Richard wrote: > >Complete and utter rubbish on the part of the Times, I'm afraid, though > >I suppose one shouldn't expect much from a Murdoch paper.Black Country > >and Sherwood partners were also urging people to vote as many ways as > >possible. And the same rules, of course, applied to all four competitors. > > > >Moose asks > > > >Why is it rubbish, as already been said others, we were urged to vote > >more than once. > > > >The fact they won by multi voting is wrong but then the other groups > >were playing by the same bent but not illegal rules. > > > >Moose > Indeed. I am aware of people who voted once for each email addy, once > on each mobile and once on the land line. If I'd got round to doing > that Black Country might have won :-)} > > Seriously though I think there was an inevitability about the Sustrans > project winning. Given that most people voting probably didnt have > such a vested interest as us I suspect that the word "cycling" would > have had a wider appeal than any of the others. Also as has been said > that project had a much wider geographical spread than the other > projects. I wonder how many people thought that what they were voting > for would help to get cyclists off their pavements rather than providing > long distance routes for "serious" cyclists. > > On the whole not a very fair way to choose how to spend lottery money > IMHO. > > Just a thought! > > Guy > -- > Guy Morgan > nb Virgo, WFB, Stockton GU > Defend the waterways. > Visit the web site www.saveourwaterways.org.uk >
Have said my piece on the Times 'Have your say' bit, perhaps we all should, maybe from various e-mail addresses, or is that manipulation? Aboslutely disgusting if you ask me.
