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Post by NigelMoore on Dec 14, 2017 21:54:39 GMT
Final confirmation is yet to be received, but the Select Committee investigation into the opposed Bill is set down for several days from January 15th, with one petitioner having withdrawn.
Four of us will be presenting our reasons for opposing altogether/ proposing amendments.
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Post by NigelMoore on Dec 21, 2017 16:24:16 GMT
We have just received tentative confirmation of the three day hearing mid January; the promoters have indicated the possibility of their wishing to call on a senior IWA person as a witness supporting their drive for getting boaters to contribute towards the farmers' land drainage, through the impositions of pleasure boat registration with all the attendant controls, even over waterways outside of their jurisdiction.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2017 17:41:17 GMT
We have just received tentative confirmation of the three day hearing mid January; the promoters have indicated the possibility of their wishing to call on a senior IWA person as a witness supporting their drive for getting boaters to contribute towards the farmers' land drainage, through the impositions of pleasure boat registration with all the attendant controls, even over waterways outside of their jurisdiction. Whilst agreeing with the logic of your post, I do hope your submission will be termed in words that are more acceptable to the powers that be...
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Post by NigelMoore on Dec 21, 2017 19:46:44 GMT
We have just received tentative confirmation of the three day hearing mid January; the promoters have indicated the possibility of their wishing to call on a senior IWA person as a witness supporting their drive for getting boaters to contribute towards the farmers' land drainage, through the impositions of pleasure boat registration with all the attendant controls, even over waterways outside of their jurisdiction. Whilst agreeing with the logic of your post, I do hope your submission will be termed in words that are more acceptable to the powers that be... Now – did I indulge in profanity there, even once? Your point is, of course, taken; but sadly, regardless of one’s chosen vocabulary and delicacy of expression, any opposition to the planned violation of centuries of land owner pledges as confirmed by Parliament, will never prove acceptable to the powers that be. I have been speed reading through centuries of debates, reports and analyses of the historic bungling of drainage schemes destroying both navigable routes and even land drainage, with some awestruck fascination; the solemn undertakings by owners of the some 95 thousand acres of newly arable land that was eventually achieved - designed to mitigate in some small measure the decimation of navigable routes - are set to be swept away finally, on utterly specious grounds, with the MLC adamant that no quid pro quo need be produced in justification.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2017 22:34:38 GMT
All I can say is I wish I could be of some help.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2017 22:56:10 GMT
We have just received tentative confirmation of the three day hearing mid January; the promoters have indicated the possibility of their wishing to call on a senior IWA person as a witness supporting their drive for getting boaters to contribute towards the farmers' land drainage, through the impositions of pleasure boat registration with all the attendant controls, even over waterways outside of their jurisdiction. Makes me piss listening to twats from the IWA. Their boating membership is virtually none existent now. The last AGM was a joke, no more than 20 people turned up. They are becoming more and more a political lobby group for CRT. You'll probably get Paul strudwick. A pompous old fart from the lea whose just been made a deputy chair by Caplan.
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Post by NigelMoore on Dec 21, 2017 23:05:25 GMT
You'll probably get Paul strudwick. The name suggested as a possibility was Chris Howes.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2017 23:08:39 GMT
You'll probably get Paul strudwick. The name suggested as a possibility was Chris Howes. Sounds about right. Ex councillor who has a boat on the middle levels. I think he's one of the regional chairs now.
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Post by NigelMoore on Dec 21, 2017 23:10:47 GMT
All I can say is I wish I could be of some help. Late in the day for that - except insofar as you and/or others could attend the hearings to demonstrate some extent of boater interest and support. The MLC is making much of the fact that there is minimal opposition from boaters and even marinas. Even those following the progression of these designs missed certain aspects that would have worried them more had they picked up on them.
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