Thursday, October 12, 2006
BW gutted by DEFRA
It's absolutely pathetic that one government department can suck the lifeblood out of another one, simply because they couldn't do their own maths.
DEFRA, a byword for incompetence in handling the countryside issues is now demonstrating their incompetence yet again by gutting the British Waterways budget to make up for shortfalls in their funding caused by them mis-handling payments to farmers.
What do farmers have to do with canals? Nothing much really, they're both used as props for the tourist industry as much as anything. Oooh, pretty sheep, ooooh, pretty boat, oooh pretty collapsing canal system!
DEFRA has decided that the easy target is to take money away from departments that have been making do and not cocking up.
Help save the waterways by standing up and saying NO to DEFRA. Tell them to go cap in hand to the Chancellor and say they've been bad and can they have more please. And tell them to keep their sticky fingers off the BW budget. Otherwise, tourists won't be able to say 'Oooh, pretty boat', it will be 'Oooh, pretty shopping trolley' as that's all that will be left in the ditches that used to be the canals of the UK.
http://www.saveourwaterways.org.uk/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6036139.stm
And in a bitter irony, the Pontyscyllte is a 'heritage' site
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml%3Fxml%3D/news/2006/10/11/ncanal11.xml
while the rest of the canals are at risk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml%3Fxml%3D/news/2006/10/11/ncanal111.xml
Makes you want to require all government minions to pass a maths test before they can order a new computer system, and to pass a logic test before they're allowed to mangle a budget. I know, it's too much to ask that money be spent responsibly. Silly me.
DEFRA, a byword for incompetence in handling the countryside issues is now demonstrating their incompetence yet again by gutting the British Waterways budget to make up for shortfalls in their funding caused by them mis-handling payments to farmers.
What do farmers have to do with canals? Nothing much really, they're both used as props for the tourist industry as much as anything. Oooh, pretty sheep, ooooh, pretty boat, oooh pretty collapsing canal system!
DEFRA has decided that the easy target is to take money away from departments that have been making do and not cocking up.
Help save the waterways by standing up and saying NO to DEFRA. Tell them to go cap in hand to the Chancellor and say they've been bad and can they have more please. And tell them to keep their sticky fingers off the BW budget. Otherwise, tourists won't be able to say 'Oooh, pretty boat', it will be 'Oooh, pretty shopping trolley' as that's all that will be left in the ditches that used to be the canals of the UK.
http://www.saveourwaterways.org.uk/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6036139.stm
And in a bitter irony, the Pontyscyllte is a 'heritage' site
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml%3Fxml%3D/news/2006/10/11/ncanal11.xml
while the rest of the canals are at risk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml%3Fxml%3D/news/2006/10/11/ncanal111.xml
Makes you want to require all government minions to pass a maths test before they can order a new computer system, and to pass a logic test before they're allowed to mangle a budget. I know, it's too much to ask that money be spent responsibly. Silly me.
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