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Littlestone Feb 3, 2006 18:47:59
Replying to nigelswift

>The Stonehenge proposals reek of a similar approach. Almost go for cut and cover, allow everyone to go bananas about it and then relent in favour of short bored, and try to suggest they'd done something praiseworthy.<

Mmm... very interesting Nigel but are they (the bureaucrats) really that devious (let alone that clever)? I dunno, maybe they <i>are</i> devious <i>and</i> clever but I've got a feeling that maybe the whole issue has got so bogged down in detail that no-one knows for sure anymore what to do for the best.

At the risk of exacerbating the problem even further perhaps it's time to hand the whole thing over to UNESCO and let them sort it out.

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nigelswift Feb 3, 2006 19:24:44
Replying to Littlestone

"but are they (the bureaucrats) really that devious (let alone that clever)?"
Devious and clever enough to entirely exclude what's best for Stonehenge from the options document, and to slag off some of the remaining options but not others...

"perhaps it's time to hand the whole thing over to UNESCO and let them sort it out."
You mean the UNESCO that a couple of years ago put on record it's warm congratulations to the British government over it's management of Silbury?

Nah, we're on our own over this.
We could raise the money for a long tunnel quite easily though. Get the government to come home from Iraq just 11 days earlier, that'd do it. Or get the Yanks to stop just an afternoon early, that'd do it as well...