Nigel wrote: heavily snipped: > But it does mean that > new DEFRA ministers may want to divert funds from their budget to more > traditional rural and farming interests. > > It will therefore matter a lot who the ministerial team is. A good > waterways ministers may be able to fight effectively to defend the > budget from even bigger cuts than the ones I fear.
While I don't disagree with the main thrust of this argument I'm not sure that 'traditional rural and farming interests' will include canals. They will definitely support the land owning lobby but canals....I'm not so sure.....we're not farmers ;-))) Roger
