boatone
Well-known member
OK, so we seem to have lost the two major battles. Licence fees are increasing by 12% pa for the next three years AND diesel prices will rise substantially as well. Just to pile on the agony there will presumably be some increase in mooring costs as well.
So, whats to be done? Are we all going to just grimace and bear it? Or would it not make sense for us to get much better organised and more militant to at least ensure that we get the best possible deal for what we pay?
I would like to see an Inland Waterways wide demonstration of solidarity sometime in the spring when all the boats are back on the water. A large gathering in one place is always going to be difficult to achieve but how about EVERY cruiser and narrowboat on the waterways displaying a large banner over a particular period of several days with a harmonised attack on all the waterways towns and villages and their associated newspapers together with PR in papers. on TV etc?
A veritable flood of boater power!
What say you?
So, whats to be done? Are we all going to just grimace and bear it? Or would it not make sense for us to get much better organised and more militant to at least ensure that we get the best possible deal for what we pay?
I would like to see an Inland Waterways wide demonstration of solidarity sometime in the spring when all the boats are back on the water. A large gathering in one place is always going to be difficult to achieve but how about EVERY cruiser and narrowboat on the waterways displaying a large banner over a particular period of several days with a harmonised attack on all the waterways towns and villages and their associated newspapers together with PR in papers. on TV etc?
A veritable flood of boater power!
What say you?