Les W said:
OK, for what it is worth:
I don't believe this has been kicked into the long grass at all. What has happened, IMO, is that people outside of BCA have, on their own merits, pursued a legal opinion?..
Because the BCA have refused to? Because the anti-access element of the BCA hierarchy have squashed it? Or some other reason ?
Les W said:
This is going to happen and does not need BCA's input or any attempt at control.
How about some ?support? ?
Les W said:
BCA however, along with the regional Council's will need to pick up the pieces from any fallout following on from this legal opinion.
So, you see this as ?destructive?? Was it not inevitable that whilst the BCA sat around doing nothing shouting ?your can?t do this, you can?t do that?, that someone would pick up the proverbial torch (as Tim has done) and actually do something ? How does ?clarifying the law? in anyway create ?fallout??
Les W said:
The motion was not presented according to constitutional time scales so was rightly deferred
Or could it be said it was supressed by a technicality? Given the
vast amount of work that had been put into this by Tim, Bob, Jenny
et al and given the hugely important consequences, was it really ?right? to defer it ?
Les W said:
as there were a lot of representations from people that could not attend the meeting, against the motion being presented.
How many ?for? couldn?t attend? Was that not considered? Can you define ?a lot?? In any event, it seems a number of people were able to wrangle two votes each (another technicality?)
Les W said:
One group riding roughshod over the constitution is no better than another group doing the same
Very true. The ?pro-access? sector has been habitually run over rough-shod.
Les W said:
The compromise motion that appeared acceptable to all parties present was to pass the issue to the C&A committee to follow up once legal opinion was delivered
Didn?t it become ?
fait a?compli?? Not everyone ?agreed?, rather, ?caved in? (pardon the pun).
Les W said:
I do believe that the current C&A committee will move quickly on this and that they will represent all the regions and all other interested parties.
I hope you are right. It seems an impossible task for them to please both sides of the Access issue, I hope I am pleasantly surprised.
Les W said:
I really don't see what else BCA could do under the circumstances...
Stop fighting cavers potential ability to use recreational (CRoW) land for our sport ?
Assist in clarifying the law regarding CRoW ?
Ian