Victor: What did you expect?

SO WE are getting more and more complaints of the voting for Cart Council, which much now rate as yet another of the Canal & River Trust's ever increasing fiascos.

We are learning of boaters having received no code enabling them to vote, with the Electoral Reform Services blaming Cart for its, what I can only call 'pathetic' licensing team not sending a complete list—picking and choosing?

The complaints are piling up, with only this morning our own Keith Gudgin telling us he had his letter from the Electoral Reform Services about entering his nomination of the 2nd November telling the closing date is the 14th October!  Reform service?—I reckon that service certainly needs reforming! Keith remarks that perhaps it will send out all those missing voting letters two or three weeks after the election has all finished!

What a mess. Or what a fiddle!

Of course not

Have we received our full 12 months boat licence yet—for which the full amount was paid?  Of course not, that wonderful licensing team is telling us as ownership changed it cannot send out licences to self print.  Yet it sent us an 11 months one to do just that!

Ownership has been the same for a good 19 years, with the said 19 years with no problems, until Cart set up this, what can only be described as a completely useless, licensing team.

Come on, sort it out.

Oh dear!

I'm not sure if that incident where the person with the dog who caused a speeding cyclist to come off his bike and paid out compensation set a legal precedent or not, but it certainly doesn't bode well for walkers and boaters on the towpaths.

Especially not with the speeding Strava cyclists taking them over. Surely, as has been told, they too should be aware of their surroundings...

Middle class, white

I don't remember who told it, but in the days of British Waterways some politician or other described the boating fraternity as 'middle class, white'.

Is Cart is keeping it that way...?

Victor Swift