Re: [canals-list] Re: BW Pulls Out Of Cotswold Canal Partnership

[Nick]

Adrian Stott wrote:
> Brian J Goggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> Lovely. Now would you mind giving us a sanity check on that? I mean,
>> apart from yourself, does anyone --- say the Prime Minister or the
>> Chancellor of the Exchequer, or even a lowly Assistant Principal in
>> the Treasury's office in Halifax --- think that this is a good idea?
>> If --- as I suspect --- not, then your proposal (however you define
>> it) is utterly unrealistic.
>>     
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> Hard to believe, I know, but the Treasury does not confide in me
> concerning its plans.
>   
No, but at least one Civil Servant (not, admittedly in the Treasury, nor 
an *Assistant* Principal) has made it clear to you many times that this 
won't wash for exactly the reason Brian came up with.