Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2020 11:37:10 GMT
The Brussel Sprout
A common little vegetable that the English have seemingly adopted over the years. It's most popular at Christmas amid the turkey, roast potatoes and gravy.
There is nothing really going for this poor little vegetable, people either love it, or hate it. There is no flavour to it as such, and little can be done to enhance its appeal. All in all, it's a rather bland vegetable that has a very, very limited function.
It does however display an avid, but stubborn ability to survive.
Anyway, once again we have been blessed, and presented with the brightest colours of the Canal and River Trust’s pie charts and annual report. Packed to the brim with relatively low information but a perfected script suitable for the corporate theatre their CEO and Chair so desperately love to present.
(Anyone noticed that this spectacular array of colour and PR gets later each year)
The year has been a sorry one for the canal and river trust, what with the dreaded covid, 80% of its staff furloughed, (and attempting to run the organisation from a computer on the kitchen table at home and in between laying coats of paint on the ceiling), and its CEO attempting to undermine the reports from experts relating to that darned dam shenanigans at Toddbrook.
We then have some bright spark who decides a change to the t&c's for the application of a boat licence is the best way forward?
They will refuse you a licence for this that and any other silly drivel they can make up, when in fact the law clearly states there are only three legal requirements needed for an application. So even if the silly Billy’s at the Trust seek to take your licence away, you can apply again using the three requirements held in law (or seek legal advice and an injunction to stop the Trust from taking your licence);
“(a)the applicant for the relevant consent satisfies the Board that the vessel complies with the standards applicable to that vessel;
(b)an insurance policy is in force in respect of the vessel and a copy of the policy, or evidence that it exists and is in force, has been produced to the Board; and
(c)either—
(I)the Board are satisfied that a mooring or other place where the vessel can reasonably be kept and may lawfully be left will be available for the vessel, whether on an inland waterway or elsewhere; or
(ii)the applicant for the relevant consent satisfies the Board that the vessel to which the application relates will be used bona fide for navigation throughout the period for which the consent is valid without remaining continuously in any one place for more than 14 days or such longer period as is reasonable in the circumstances.”
The above can be found here;
www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/1995/1/section/17/enacted
The pleasure boat licence is not a contract, therefore the T&C’s Canal and River Trust are attempting to apply cannot override the legislation.
It also seems that with the new T&C’s, the Trust would like you to acknowledge that they should not be held responsible for the deterioration of, or upkeep of the system they were set up to maintain and secure for future generations.
All a bit of a joke really, but typical of an organisation that is looking to disenfranchise itself from its core responsibilities.
This Canal and River Trust inherited an 850-million-pound portfolio, and has seen funding of over 1.5 billion pounds since its July 2012 launch, and yet fails daily to fulfil its core objectives.
The CEO has previously, and continues to state at any public appearances that he would like to see an open, transparent and accountable canal and river trust, yet this CEO systematically seeks to hide, disguise and manipulate the truth. Toddbrook reservoir, Ken Churchill and the rebranding being examples of how this CEO seeks to blindside the public and its customers.
Selling off assets, systematically ridding itself of knowledgeable staff, token attempts at dredging, a boating manager who describes live aboard boaters as “Gits”, staff complaints of internal bullying, millions of pounds wasted on unnecessary legal fees, car cash, rebranding, the list is endless.
I’m not sure what the future holds for the Canal and River Trust, but I do believe it is distancing itself from its paying boat owning customers, and its obligations as a navigation authority.
As to the poor old Brussel sprout, well it seems one of them has metamorphosed into a CEO.
A common little vegetable that the English have seemingly adopted over the years. It's most popular at Christmas amid the turkey, roast potatoes and gravy.
There is nothing really going for this poor little vegetable, people either love it, or hate it. There is no flavour to it as such, and little can be done to enhance its appeal. All in all, it's a rather bland vegetable that has a very, very limited function.
It does however display an avid, but stubborn ability to survive.
Anyway, once again we have been blessed, and presented with the brightest colours of the Canal and River Trust’s pie charts and annual report. Packed to the brim with relatively low information but a perfected script suitable for the corporate theatre their CEO and Chair so desperately love to present.
(Anyone noticed that this spectacular array of colour and PR gets later each year)
The year has been a sorry one for the canal and river trust, what with the dreaded covid, 80% of its staff furloughed, (and attempting to run the organisation from a computer on the kitchen table at home and in between laying coats of paint on the ceiling), and its CEO attempting to undermine the reports from experts relating to that darned dam shenanigans at Toddbrook.
We then have some bright spark who decides a change to the t&c's for the application of a boat licence is the best way forward?
They will refuse you a licence for this that and any other silly drivel they can make up, when in fact the law clearly states there are only three legal requirements needed for an application. So even if the silly Billy’s at the Trust seek to take your licence away, you can apply again using the three requirements held in law (or seek legal advice and an injunction to stop the Trust from taking your licence);
“(a)the applicant for the relevant consent satisfies the Board that the vessel complies with the standards applicable to that vessel;
(b)an insurance policy is in force in respect of the vessel and a copy of the policy, or evidence that it exists and is in force, has been produced to the Board; and
(c)either—
(I)the Board are satisfied that a mooring or other place where the vessel can reasonably be kept and may lawfully be left will be available for the vessel, whether on an inland waterway or elsewhere; or
(ii)the applicant for the relevant consent satisfies the Board that the vessel to which the application relates will be used bona fide for navigation throughout the period for which the consent is valid without remaining continuously in any one place for more than 14 days or such longer period as is reasonable in the circumstances.”
The above can be found here;
www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/1995/1/section/17/enacted
The pleasure boat licence is not a contract, therefore the T&C’s Canal and River Trust are attempting to apply cannot override the legislation.
It also seems that with the new T&C’s, the Trust would like you to acknowledge that they should not be held responsible for the deterioration of, or upkeep of the system they were set up to maintain and secure for future generations.
All a bit of a joke really, but typical of an organisation that is looking to disenfranchise itself from its core responsibilities.
This Canal and River Trust inherited an 850-million-pound portfolio, and has seen funding of over 1.5 billion pounds since its July 2012 launch, and yet fails daily to fulfil its core objectives.
The CEO has previously, and continues to state at any public appearances that he would like to see an open, transparent and accountable canal and river trust, yet this CEO systematically seeks to hide, disguise and manipulate the truth. Toddbrook reservoir, Ken Churchill and the rebranding being examples of how this CEO seeks to blindside the public and its customers.
Selling off assets, systematically ridding itself of knowledgeable staff, token attempts at dredging, a boating manager who describes live aboard boaters as “Gits”, staff complaints of internal bullying, millions of pounds wasted on unnecessary legal fees, car cash, rebranding, the list is endless.
I’m not sure what the future holds for the Canal and River Trust, but I do believe it is distancing itself from its paying boat owning customers, and its obligations as a navigation authority.
As to the poor old Brussel sprout, well it seems one of them has metamorphosed into a CEO.