16th March 2009, 06:26 PM
Primarily the school, from my perspective, would really be about keeping a viable option for the future of local public engagement with the professiona as much as the resource. So I don't fall in line for the finance issue, due to the fact that if we leave it purely to current viability, we may find ourselves ring fencing off avenues for public involvement and engagement with an actively engaging educational outdoor activity.
We can't pin all our hopes on woodland management schemes. come on?
On the other hand though, you may get as much experience from a commercial unit by volunteering, but this leaves the financing to the commercial unit and maintaining training and awareness necessary to work on, effectively, building sites.
So the commercial sector picks up the bill, which falls in line for the business model for keeping the country afloat, but we still need intermeiary bastions.
If education remains in the governments hands and not sold to highest bidder, then I feel they should maintain some local interest and restraint rather than leaving to a free economy.
As for writing across a great distance regarding local issues, for things that do not have a direct effect upon us I would say that maybe this would mean that I would be representing, as you say my industry, career or hobby interest.
But the fact remains that big business has been involved in lobbying outside of their areas of commercial practice to gain further support from groups not directly related to whatever commercial practice.
Its like saying it's ok if you are a billion dollar business, but if your industry is a drop in the ocean, you should keep out, or stay in the shallow end of the pool. Now there's a good industry........fetch, heal, attack.....stay.....stay.
Maybe not......
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Mike