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nigelswift Sep 18, 2004 12:37:33
Replying to VenerableBottyBurp

VBB, I do think it might be appropriate for you to clarify your posting, lest people get the impression that you think the process is a valid one that is designed to do what it says on the tin, which I suspect you don't.

To me it is the context of the meeting that is the national disgrace, the unwavering refusal to provide a proper account to the public. The meeting itself, in my opinion, is merely an irrelevant though blatant attempt to get off that simple hook of public accountability.

Whether the public can gain even a shred of it's entitlement from this event is a matter for faith or lack of it. "All is far from lost" is your expression of a hope, but I don't share it. Where is there the least evidence that the necessary step-change in the corporate behaviour of the past 4 years has happened? How can it change, when proper disclosure will cause outrage?

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VenerableBottyBurp Sep 18, 2004 15:04:58
Replying to nigelswift

As you rightly state Nigel it is the context of the meeting that is the problem rather than the meeting itself.

EH have not kept the public informed, the meeting they are now holding should have been held four years ago. The peer group as they call it should have all been kept informed in detail and been part of a decision process.

I too am concerned that the meeting may be a "blatant attempt to get off that simple hook of public accountability" but I remain open minded and that may not be the case.

My big concerns amongst so many is that EH will go back on the polystyrene being "temporary", and that the empty bits of the 68 tunnel may be used as an excuse to go all the way back in.

I would also want to see the traps changed for gates.

VBB