Let’s all argue over one word again. And miss the point.

I don't know about nutter, but I certainly don't think he's really got a valid complaint.

Rog

The email is very passive aggressive. Talk about cancelling licences and injunctions because of CRT miss management and then sign it as best wishes.

I think some people on this forum let their hatred of td colour their opinions about crt.

All very silly.

I paid my first bill to BW in April 1994 and my last to the CRT in March 2024.

Bye bye ditches. Quite a momentous time actually.




The canal system is turning into a slum fast.

Its not balf as threatening as the tv licence letters I got sent when I have no telly and do not watch iplayer.

Interesting we see it so differently.

Can I ask you, as kris hasn't answered, what would you have done ?

The guy said on Facebook he was going to block a waterway as a protest ... you say jokingly but he doesn't mention it being a joke.

It was brought to C&RT attention, so someone else wasn't certain it wasn't a joke.

They sent the guy a private email mail as he was a licence holder, reminding him of the consequences, which the guy decided to publish.

What should C&RT have done ?

How is the action threatening ?

Rog

www.facebook.com/groups/londonboaters/permalink/10159408598036286/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v


It's good that this group is able to see the C&RT for what it really is - a useless mismanaged shambles that lost its way from the day it came into being - but it's not so good that their actions and reactions are all so badly misdirected.

The C&RT is a private limited company that, having been given the responsibility for running and maintaining a publicly owned historic national asset, is leaving that historic national asset to fall apart to the extent that it no longer functions reliably or properly, . . as the useable inter-connected system of navigations it used to be before the days of the so-called Canal & River Trust.

Meantime, the senior management of this private limited company, from the CEO down, concentrates solely on managerial empire building, by creating vast numbers of utterly pointless new administrative jobs and positions for more office chair polishers, none of whom make any useful contribution whatsoever to the running and maintaining of our inland waterways.

The largely useless, and sometimes thoroughly dishonest contractors that have replaced all but a very few of the directly employed operating and maintenance staff that the C&RT inherited from British Waterways, do very nicely out of this crackpot regime, . . generally using plant, equipment and maintenance craft that the C&RT management have sold off to them for a tiny fraction of their true value.

It's quite pointless to target relatively lowly C&RT minions such as that arsehole Simon Cadek, Licence Support Supervisor for London Central & East . All available time, effort, and resources should be focussed on the conduct and actions of C&RT's corrupt and useless senior management, and on the crooked contractors, and the bent lawyers with which the corrupt and useless senior management has such a cosy and costly relationship.

Remove these people and their malign influence from OUR waterways, . . and the money C&RT does have to spend could then be channelled into running and maintaining the C&RT controlled inland waterways, . . instead of going into the corrupt management's, crooked contractor's, and bent lawyer's pockets, . . and into the pointless non-productive managerial empire building that has typified C&RT's administration since inception in 2012

One notable example of sort of thing that deserves some long overdue special attention from inland waterways pressure groups is the national pseudo-legal, and now highly organised, boat stealing operation that C&RT, along with its crooked contractors, Commercial Boat Services, has expanded and perfected since C&RT came into being in 2012. The total annual cost of this would go a long way towards covering the cost of a sizeable proportion of the maintenance that, under Parry's incompetent and discredited overall management, IS NOT getting done.

C&RT has become a national sick joke - it's not doing what it was created to do - and if our inland waterways are to survive as useable navigations, it MUST be turned back into something that at least bears a passing resemblance to a navigation authority. That process has to start somewhere, . . and as good a place as any to start would be with C&RT's profligate and wholly ineffective senior management, from the chief empire builders, CEO Richard Parry, and Company Secretary/Head of Legal & Governance Services, Tom Deards, . . down through specimens such as Aymes, Symonds, and Barry.

The following brief outline of the way C&RT's boat stealing scam operates is not meant as one possible suggested cure-all for everything that's wrong at C&RT, . . and should not be seen as such, . . but the total annual cost of C&RT's squads of 'Enforcement Teams', the huge number of lawyers who make up its Legal & Governance Services, and its massively expensive 'boat removal' contractors, all add up a major item in terms of misspent money, . . and it's that money the NBTA, and anyone else who wants to continue boating on our inland waterways, should be directing their efforts and energy towards getting spent on maintenance, . . instead of on corrupt senior management and crooked contractor pocket-lining.

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From their unprofessional conduct, to their ingrained dishonesty, and their general lack of moral decency, C&RT's corrupt management and its crooked lawyers have a great deal in common with the corrupt management and crooked lawyers at the Post Office, . . the dishonest so-called professionals who, between themselves and the blinkered Court system, have been the architects of the most serious miscarriage of justice in British legal history.

At the time of the original prosecutions, and during the ongoing inquiry into the Post Office's wrongful prosecutions brought against so many hundreds of Sub-postmasters, there is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that the Post Office's corrupt management, and its crooked lawyers, have been wilfully lying to and misleading the Courts for a great many years with their concocted evidence and intentionally evasive testimony.

Why is it so difficult for so many people to believe that C&RT's professional liars - its senior management and its bent lawyers - wouldn't be capable of doing, or haven't already done, something remarkably similar to what the Post Office managers and lawyers did, and in some cases still are doing, to all those Sub-Postmasters through the Courts.

Well, that's just what C&RT's professional liars have done, . . to the hundreds of boat owners who have, in effect, had their boats, homes, and personal goods and belongings stolen from them by means of a well rehearsed pseudo-legal sham, with the outward appearance of a correct and properly conducted legal process, but in truth entails lying to and deceiving everyone, from, firstly and most importantly, the Courts, . . then the Police, . . and finally the owner or occupier of the boat in question.

Since its formal beginning in July 2012 the C&RT has dishonestly obtained huge numbers of what are technically (in Law) worthless Court Orders that have then been used by C&RT staff and contractors committing the serious criminal offence of impersonating bona fide Officers of the Court (formerly known as Bailiffs) and calling themselves 'Enforcement Officers', unlawfully to evict people from their boats, . . then unlawfully to seize their boats (usually complete with all contents, personal belongings, tools, goods etc.), . . then finally, and again unlawfully, . . craned out of the C&RT controlled or managed inland waterway, and transported, from wherever in England or Wales it might happen to be, by road, to storage on farm land near Chester.

The storage land at the farm near Chester, where all these so-called 'removed' Section 8 boats are taken, is owned by one Brian Clarke, the crooked Managing Director and owner of a company called Commercial Boat Services [CBS]. It is CBS that provides C&RT with the phoney 'Enforcement Officers', . . the ones who lie to and deceive the Police, so that they, . . the phoney 'Enforcement Officers', are then left free to intimidate and forcibly evict boat owners from their boats and homes. CBS also arranges and invoices C&RT for the cranes and the road transport to take the unlawfully 'seized' so-called 'removed Section 8 boats' to Brian Clarke's farm near Chester, . . where the expensive storage for all of them is paid for, weekly, by C&RT.

Brian Clarke, and his distinctly dubious company, make a powerful lot of money out of stealing people's boats on behalf of the C&RT, . . and the net benefit to the waterways, and to the boat owners who use those waterways, is a big fat zero.