19th June 2010, 02:13 AM
Going to put the proverbial cat amongst the pigeons here i) i agree cuts are a bad thing but look at the wider picture. If a new hospital planned in my area as in the NE of England Id be more concerned with that being shelved along with the cancellation of the loan the Sheffield company Forgemasters. Bristol Archaeology dept is NOT a 'front line service' and like many others will bear the brunt of such cuts and it may sound harsh but in reality if it came to a choice between Bristol archaeology or cutting the NHS budget, fire service etc then my choice is clear the NHS etc would gain my support. ii) The question of it being an early meeting is PATHETIC in my opinion if they cared people would get out of bed and attend? Or is it too much to ask to do this???? iii) I agree with Dinosaurs point of the transparency issue regading pos-grad and 'researchers' seems to be a lot of money for in some cases a load of tosh