Nice letters. From my experience of big companies, although a surface calm will be maintained, stuff like that bounces around internally and causes no end of recriminations. I think a consensus view will have been formed that it's all been a very Bad Idea.

From what Pure Joy says, it seems that EH may actually have a dual responsibility with NT at Uffington, although it's all a bit unclear. If that's so, their silence so far speaks volumes - if they spoke up about the Countryside Alliance, what reason would they have to say nothing about this identical incident?
Only one. I bet the words "you've put us in an intolerable position" have been said.