The Canal and River Trust (CRT) has produced a consultation survey in which they ask boaters whether people without home moorings should pay more than people with home moorings, as well as other leading and divisive questions. If CRT gets away with pricing boats without home moorings differently, they would be able to price us out of existence while not charging boats with home moorings the same amount.
Many of us will know that CRT misspends and wastes money. The idea that CRT wants yet more money from us is abhorrent. However, the most horrendous tactic of this CRT survey is the use of very leading questions that appear to have been designed to divide the boating community. We must be united and not allow CRT to divide us.
We have gone through the survey and made suggested answers to help people orient themselves though CRT’s leading and biased questions. Please, fill in the survey CRT has emailed you. It may be hard to find in your emails, so please search in your emails including your spam for ‘Canal & River Trust – Consultation Survey on Boat Licence Fees’ from a company called DJS Research. If you haven’t received a link to the survey, or a postal version if CRT don’t have your email address, phone CRT customer services on 03030 404040 to request one.
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