On 5 Feb 2008, at 13:18, Nigel Stanley wrote: snipped
> BW doesn't have much choice about making cuts if its main source of > income is cut. > > And the Guardian reports today that it could get worse: > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,,2252554,00.html > > I'm not that keen on the current direction of BW, and it's perfectly > reasonable to debate where cuts should fall, but we should not obscure > that the main issue is that the government is not providing sufficient > support for the waterways, and that BW is being punished for other > issues within DEFRA. I was thinking if I was involved with such a dilemma then instead of picking one project to shelve I might cut support for all but 1 or 2 very carefully selected restorations. By showing what a good job I could make of them it might stimulate wider financial support from the government and/or other sources of finance Beeky
