Ian Adams said:
droid said:
I voted against the CRoW campaign....
..... The majority voted FOR it.
Just .... get on with it.
Because this fannying about is making the BCA look very foolish.
I wish more people would be this respectful to the majority vote (and I mean the world outside caving - Scottish Referendum, EU referendum, two general elections, America etc.) None of us get what we want all of the time but we should respect the outcome even if we don't agree with it.
Droid is right, the fannying about is reflecting badly on the BCA and it is a small minority that are causing the problem.
Ian
I also voted against pursuing the CRoW job, for what I thought (at the time) were very good reasons. Now I'm not so sure - but that doesn't matter. As Ian Adams points out; we had a fair vote and therefore I respect it.
I can even bring myself to respect the Europe vote, despite the fact it was very close (unsurprisingly, as certain individuals evidently sought to mislead us) and has since descended into a complete farce so we're all going to suffer and be the laughing stock of the planet.
But don't ask me to respect any Scottish independence vote, when the majority of the United Kingdom got no vote (despite the fact it would cost us all a fortune to implement and severely affect us adversely in so many other ways). I love Scotland and the Scots. But it's part of my country, so I'd like a say in what happens to it.
Sorry - you hit a raw nerve. I'd not want this discussion to become embroiled in the morass of current national politics but I felt that the Scottish referendum wasn't an especially good example to support the point you made (which I otherwise agree with).