2009/10/2 Steve Wood <[email protected]>: > Personally I'd rather they > used their advertising budget to increase use of the waterways by other > groups. Ultimately the object of their advertising is to increase > visitor numbers and so help make their case for an increase in the > government grant (and by implication correct the imbalance in > contribution made by existing boaters) an approach which presumably we > all would support. > > Steve > NB Bream
Quite - more comes to BW from taxpayers than boaters. With a likely change of government to one that wants to make deep spending cuts we should all be very afraid of the impact on BW. We might not see it that way, but it's easy to see new ministers asking why should tax payers subsidise all those boaters. The more the waterways are seen as resources for all, the easier the argument for proper funding becomes. -- Nigel Stanley
