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Re: The madness of bureaucracy
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and the bureaucrats a kick up the backside.....

In truth though, a kick up the backside isn't the precise answer when it comes to heritage bureaucracy. VBB has put his finger on it when he says EH shouldn't be "in sole charge". Or at least, I would suggest, should be much more open to public participation in their decisions.

Two recent examples of things that would have gone better if they'd simply made the public party to discussions rather than adopting a "we alone must decide" attitude :

First, how on earth, at a minute to midnight in the Silbury project have they STILL not decided whether to put a marker in the fill or not? Could this not have been resolved to everyone's satisfaction years ago?

Second, we have on the 5 March "To put your minds at rest, there are certainly no plans to deposit anything inside Silbury Hill" and then on 1 June we have "We are not placing offerings inside the Hill, other than the 'time capsule' being designed by the children of Avebury school."

Its all self-inflicted embarrassment IMO.
Its good to talk.


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nigelswift
Posted by nigelswift
9th June 2007ce
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