"John," <[email protected]> wrote: >The Daily Mail financial pages today list 'British Waterways canalside >properties' as being mooted to be included in the government asset sell off. >IIRC they were in the last Tory manifesto so after budget cuts and money >earning assets being sold what future for the waterways? >John
I think the DM is (a) out of date and (b) beating its same old drum. The Tory "manifesto" (actually, I think it was a speech by Boy George) a while ago did say the party would sell the BW portfolio. However, after some education by BW I believe it changed its mind, and now supports retention. AIUI, when the (current) government recently was considering selling off the portfolio, BW persuaded it that it should keep it l, so it appears (although one can never be sure, I guess) that it is excluded from the sell off Mr Brown has just announced. Keeping the portfolio, indeed enlarging it, is a crucial part of the 2020 scheme. Adrian Adrian Stott 07956-299966
