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nigelswift N
nigelswift Jun 5, 2007 14:58:27
Replying to slumpystones

Thanks to those who noticed their reply would be as I predicted.
Just to wring maximum self-satisfaction out of the process, please not they also confirmed my further prediction, that they would suggest "it's the kids, stupid" as the clincher for their wrong choice.

Not only is it the wrong justification for the wrong choice its also an entry for the Irony of the Year competition -

The very last act of a process that has been characterised by secrecy, exclusivity and a failure to inform the public will be to say - Dear Aveburyites, no you can't come in and look, only those chosen by us qualify for that, but you can put some notes in this box to demonstrate to posterity that this was a sharing, caring, community project.

S slumpystones
slumpystones Jun 5, 2007 15:14:18
Replying to nigelswift

Are they going to vet the notes before they go in?

How about these:

"Did anyone see my notebook?" - R Atkinson

"Built with passion, excavated with ignorance, refilled with tat"

Better still, they could hollow the hill, make it into Hobbiton and rent out the rooms for the summer!

L Littlestone
Littlestone Jun 5, 2007 16:14:29
Replying to nigelswift

The very last act of a process that has been characterised by secrecy, exclusivity and a failure to inform the public will be to say - Dear Aveburyites, no you can't come in and look, only those chosen by us qualify for that, but you can put some notes in this box to demonstrate to posterity that this was a sharing, caring, community project.
I'd laugh if this whole sorry saga were not so sad. Thing is, I don't think English Heritage are actually clever enough to concoct such a cunning plan; their lack of transparency seems to be coming from a lack of intelligence (re: their ill-informed, knee-jerk answers to our questions). That's not to say that they can't be devious little tos*ers when they need to be, more that they're just stupid little tos*ers, especially when they're in a corner being asked difficult questions. Like politicians and bureaucrats everywhere, English Heritage don't seem to know what they're doing and are just making things up as they go along.

You were quite right to predict the above - and I wouldn't mind betting that the next thing to happen will be for English Heritage to close down its Silbury Updates website due to 'technical difficulties' (and if they really are clever they'll no doubt then blame those 'difficulties' on us ;-)

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