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Post by Jim on Apr 27, 2024 8:59:14 GMT
The fact is that the separate licence for cc’ers is wrong. If increases are needed then they be should be across the board. Crt have done it to sow dissent between boaters. They have seen an all ready apparent division within the community. Boaters with moorings, boats without moorings and chosen to drive a wedge between them even deeper. The fact is the majority of cc’ers are compliant, otherwise more boats would be getting removed. As for the situation in London, it’s hasn’t suddenly happened. It’s built up over 15-20 years. So at any stage during that time crt/BW could have done something about it. But chose not to? As for crt as an authority. They where caught out falsifying the accounts they submitted to defra. They where caught out lying about the boater survey about the licence increases, because they didn’t get the answers back that fitted the policy they had already decided upon. But the one that really sealed it for me, are the ultra vires TC’s they keep adding to the licence. In particular the condition they added, excusing themselves from having to maintain any of the waterways to a navigable condition? WTF and people want to support them in this madness? Oh well mustn’t grumble, could be worse. The waterways could have already crumbled into the mud, whereas now they’ve got ten years tops. But I understand this doesn’t worry most people on his forum, because in ten years your going to be too decrepit to care. CC loading levels up the TOTAL payment people make to crt. Especially by those who seem to want everything free everywhere but aren't prepared to contribute to the shortfall for the services they demand. Everything else I agree with.
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Post by Jim on Apr 26, 2024 9:29:07 GMT
Many camping mats are now self inflating... that will inflate and fill the the gap Shirley.
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Post by Jim on Apr 25, 2024 17:12:23 GMT
Also available in black and white, poor old gimmer is getting frenetic, "like me like me I'm here pleeeeese don't ignore me" Its a bit like a dysfunctional relationship where the abusive man punches the woman to demonstrate his love. Whatever it takes to fill the well worn sock!
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Post by Jim on Apr 25, 2024 16:26:33 GMT
cds you keep forgetting to bump this thread. 🤣 Its all about you, as ever.
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Post by Jim on Apr 25, 2024 16:21:10 GMT
Here's the old guff complete. The usual agenda. Whoever is running the waterways no one is going to allow free long term moorings in that there Londonland. NBTA and Fund Britain’s Waterways campaign March 9, 2024 Marcus Trower When, in the wake of DEFRA’s decision to reduce the grant to the Canal & River Trust (CRT), several boaters’ groups and other stakeholders set up the Fund Britain’s Waterways campaign, the NBTA politely declined the invitation to join the campaign. So, don’t we think that the waterways should be properly funded? Of course we do. Our issue with the campaign is that its main thrust is to maintain and increase funding to CRT. For us that poses two problems. Firstly, CRT has demonstrated since its formation that it is financially incompetent. In its attempts to raise money from the public it has lost millions more than it raised. It wastes money on corporate identity on the towpaths while the system decays around it, and on hare-brained schemes such as the River Lea’s Water Safety Zones, which have cost it over a quarter of a million pounds and are a total failure. Secondly, CRT policies seek to marginalise boaters without a home mooring at every turn. Whether it is the heavy handed attempts at enforcement, the changes in mooring rules to push itinerant boaters away from town centres or the monetisation of the towpath, it is boaters without a home mooring who suffer at the hands of CRT time and again. And now CRT wants to charge us more for our boat licences while implicitly blaming us for its financial woes; financial woes it will do anything to deflect the blame for from its true source – itself. Despite paying lip service to the vitality we bring to the waterways, the fact is that CRT wishes we didn’t exist; and is doing what it can to make that wish come true. So campaign for the government to prop up CRT if you want, Fund Britain’s Waterways, but we are not interested in campaigning for our own demise. Mr Stabby oops forgot to paste the quote.
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Post by Jim on Apr 25, 2024 15:54:07 GMT
Al? You can call me Betty any time.
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Post by Jim on Apr 25, 2024 15:49:04 GMT
hmm. "the Jew hating membership would have been backed by the jew hating moderation team and banned anyone having the temerity to make such a post." Perhaps you should reflect on really why you were chucked out of CWDF. I think you are just making that one up. I was banned for calling the use of the word 'genocide' to describe events in Gaza hyperbole, with the exaggeration resulting from deep seated racism. Not only does this exaggerate the status quo, it also serves to undermine/ downgrade past acts of genocide. We all know which group was victim to one of the most notable genocides. A win:win for the Jew haters. Can't have anyone disrupting the status quo on CWDF. The explanation for the ban was 'uncivil posting'. I guess it's civil to be racist, provided that it's the right type of racism, of course. yet more racist hyperbolic and inflamatory language to describe events. When you are in a hole, stop digging🤣
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Post by Jim on Apr 25, 2024 14:22:09 GMT
I'll say this though. The answer certainly won't come about by racists using hyperbolic and inflamatory language to describe current events. hmm. "the Jew hating membership would have been backed by the jew hating moderation team and banned anyone having the temerity to make such a post." Perhaps you should reflect on really why you were chucked out of CWDF. I think you are just making that one up.
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Post by Jim on Apr 25, 2024 13:54:45 GMT
If Tony wants an uninterrupted forum to post on he can start his own. There are no rules about sticking to the thread title or topic, members post whatever they wish and have always carried on discussions across threads. Tony himself has taken full advantage, proffering insult and derision across the piste, now wishes to whinge, whine, cry and complain and make forum rules. Go make your own forum and have whatever rules you want Tony.
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Post by Jim on Apr 25, 2024 10:43:54 GMT
Quite right. Should it be 'bitumening'? The cognoscenti say Epoxy 2 pack😉
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Post by Jim on Apr 25, 2024 10:34:57 GMT
Ok so it's an insurance job...I'm not actually thinking of acquiring it, for one thing just getting any details on it could be interesting to say the least; I doubt CRT would tell you over the phone...just idly wondering what value a burnt-out sunken 35-ish foot boat could be worth. Given that you would probably have to salvage it yourself...but the gunwales are above the water so...hmm...3k? Is that a silly estimate? I paid 1500 for my hull with bugger all in it, wooden too and roofing felt roof.
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Post by Jim on Apr 25, 2024 10:31:34 GMT
You seem very reluctant to give answers to particular questions yourself, wonder why?
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Post by Jim on Apr 25, 2024 8:47:50 GMT
What would you have done? Irrelevant. Don't dodge the point. The point being, if you missed it, that international law/convention enables brutal organisations to hide out with impunity. We aren't dodging the point at all, we are interested in how an anarchist would deal with conflict, what rules you might live by? So do tell ...
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Post by Jim on Apr 25, 2024 7:44:46 GMT
Not really. Article 18 of the Geneva Convention stipulates that a building designated as a civilian hospital cannot be the target of attack. When the Americans were pursuing Saddam Hussain/ Osama Bin Laden: Had either chosen to lay up in a public hospital should the forces be expected to lay down their arms in favour of a polite request to enter to effect a peaceful arrest? If such a request were refused, does this make a public hospital a refuge, where someone may disregard any aspect of home or international law, mastermind a campaign of inhumanity perhaps, with absolute impunity? What would you have done?
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Post by Jim on Apr 25, 2024 7:43:32 GMT
I'd go for some sort of home made mousse-the dead simple kind using jelly,fruit & condensed milk.They always turn out yummy. I always thought that was my Mum's own invention🤫! (We used evaporated milk, which I still like poured over steaming hot fruit crumble.) I prefer evap to condensed , it's a good price at Lidl.
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