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Where I live, much of the disused railway runs through fields. It
provides a handy highway for the farmer's tractors, avoiding turning the
field into a mire. Very little 'pretty' involved. That aside, I get
your point.
On Fri, 7 Mar 2014 16:03:47 +0000
Simon Avery <digdilem@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello Simon,
Where I live, much of the disused railway runs through fields. It
>Agree, and it would need high level political will. Purchase orders are
>unpopular amongst voters (I don't think I'd vote for a government that
>forced me to sell land to them, taking away something I have worked hard
>for, value highly and may have made quite pretty).
provides a handy highway for the farmer's tractors, avoiding turning the
field into a mire. Very little 'pretty' involved. That aside, I get
your point.
I find it funny (as in peculiar) that successive governments have told
>Nothing is technically impossible, it's just whether the political will
>is strong enough and the pockets deep.
us "there simply isn't the money for XXXX" whatever XXXX may be, yet as
soon as there's an upset in Afghanistan, the Falklands or wherever,
bags of dosh is available to wage what amounts to a war. So, deep
pockets probably isn't the issue, it's the will. As you say, there's a
lot of fear of losing votes etc.
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