Steve Whilst you are right Adrian struts around pretending to be the voice of the internet boater. But I do wonder how much his views are listened to by anyone with any influence. In the time I have known Adrian, and is more years than I care to admit to, he has been THE voice of the Dutch Barge owners, till the Dutch barge Owners Association asked him to leave. Before that he was THE voice of the IWA membership in the old South East Region (and opposed to the local branch or region committee did or said) until he had upset so many people he was asked to cease being a member of the IWA. I would bet that before he took up waterways he was THE voice for some other poor interest group, that's what he does.
A lot of his ideas come from "think tanks" and other "original thinkers" but please don't give him more credit than he deserves by taking anything he says too seriously. I don't think anyone who really knows him does. Paul Steve Haywood wrote: > I think it was Neil who addressed this one before, though I hope he'll > excuse me if I'm ascribing someone else's arguments to him. The fact is > ignoring Adrian is simply not an alternative when he so consistently > represents himself to the waterway's authorities as the voice of the > internet boater. Adrian reverts to that tired maxim of English law that > silence is assent. If no-one challenges him, he assumes everyone agrees with > him. > > Steve > > >
