11th September 2011, 04:09 PM
Many is fine, but someone in Whitehall probably has a list of what they regard as piddling little special interest organisations that can safely be ignored, which doubtless includes anything with 'archaeology' in the title - the NT isn't going to be one of those so it's in reality probably the most significant organisation representing the archaeological/heritage interest in the current scenario. Since the current issue relates to development, and they hold a significant percentage of the UK land-bank, they really can't be ignored by Government. Also of course their vast membership are the type of people who also are likely to be retired (losts of time for letter writing, going to meetings and generally just being a b***dy nuisance to politicians) and also quite likely to be members of their local ConLib organisations (where my parents retired to there was an almost 100% correlation, but of course I extend my apologies to all those Lab voters in their 20s elsewhere who are also members). Of course I suppose all the members of IFA/CBA/whatever could all chip in and buy a few acres?