Neil Arlidge wrote: > I believe you once agreed with me that the "British Waterways" will not get > better until it gets a lot worse...but hey, some of us remember boating in > the 1960's and 1970's and we survived then.
I still do. Only just the 70s, but ... > So what is the next UK "bank" to go and get bailed out ? B&B? I "bailed out" > of them not long after us small shareholders were powerless to stop them > being carpetbagged and turned into a bank....something we have sucessfully > fought off a few times with Nationwide. > > I can remember what my grandpapy told me he did in the depression...he was > given government sponsored work, digging ponds on Wanstead Flats...others > modernized the GU, and others rebuilt railway infrastructure. Hey there is > an idea, get all the out of work city workers to go and dig /maintain > canals! We got the Gloucester and Sharpness before that, and a lot of work on Rochdale more recently as well.
