20th April 2006, 06:32 PM
I'm sure this rot is going to spread. I recently attended a consultation exercise held by the County Council in my own county. Ostensibly this was to identify the core functions of the archaeological arm of the council to make provision of them more efficient. The consensus reached was that the service was both essential and needed to be beefed up to meet a rapidly expanding workload.
You could see from the barely hidden dismay displayed by the council officials (not curators I hasten to point out) running the exercise that this was the last thing they wanted to hear. This led me to conclude that they were hoping to axe every single part that they could get away with. It left me feeling quite soiled that I had taken part in such a blatant sham of an exercise, and possibly contributed to their 'consultation exercise' and eventual demolition of the curatorial arm.
We need to fight it with everything we have. Thornborough protesters where are you?
You could see from the barely hidden dismay displayed by the council officials (not curators I hasten to point out) running the exercise that this was the last thing they wanted to hear. This led me to conclude that they were hoping to axe every single part that they could get away with. It left me feeling quite soiled that I had taken part in such a blatant sham of an exercise, and possibly contributed to their 'consultation exercise' and eventual demolition of the curatorial arm.
We need to fight it with everything we have. Thornborough protesters where are you?