Pengalanty wrote: > In the first box I wrote: > Stop DEFRA from selling off the Assets of British Waterways.
Errr...I thought that DEFRA wants BW to keep their property portfolio, so BW does not rely on DEFRA for hand outs? DEFRA must realize that they have cut BW to the bone and if there is a national disaster, like the Mon and Brec breach, then they will have to "bail" BW out (like what happened to BWB in the 1970's and 1980's) OK so under the proposed "Bankrupt BW" proposals, BW would not have been able to repair the Mob and Brec, but they would have to clear up the mess that the breach caused. It is just not feasible for "Bankrupt BW" to drain all canals that may cause flooding due to beaches. Shirley it is the Treasury / that nice Mr Mandy / Gordon that wants to fire-sale all the remaining nations assets at an all time low? As predicted by some, the packaged up as a separate company "BW property portfolio" will just be too tempting for a fire sale...it is just too easy to do. One could almost say that the Treasury / that nice Mr Mandy / Gordon have a Saddam Hussein "Scorched Earth Policy". Talk of Mandy, who voted him in?...who is he accountable to? -- Neil Arlidge NB Earnest TNC http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/tour.html
