CRT have been putting up our licence fees over the last two years and they plan to further increase this over the next five years.

Our licences went up 8% in 2022, 9% in 2023, and they now plan to put them up another 6% on that already vastly inflated figure in 2024 – an increase 23% in just three years, with further increases planned.

On top of this CRT are introducing a ‘surcharge’ for boats without a home mooring from April 1st 2024. This differential pricing based on your mooring status is part of a thinly veiled objective to price itinerant boaters off the water.

CRT claims that this differential licence proposal is the ‘fairest’ way to reduce their current financial problems and maintain the crumbling waterways infrastructure. But those financial problems and the precarious nature of the waterways are due to their mismanagement. Whether it’s spending money on vanity projects such as a new logo or paying subcontractors hundreds of thousands of pounds to enforce their ill-conceived mooring schemes, CRT’s finances are in tatters because of their own negligence.

When it comes to claims of ‘fairness’ it doesn’t take long to see that for CRT, ‘fairness’ is just a deceptive term they use to hide their real agenda – marginalising, penalising and eliminating boaters without a home mooring. Whenever they talk about ‘fairness’ it is always a preamble to making our lives more difficult.

CRT have proved that they cannot be trusted; they cannot be trusted with their finances, they cannot be trusted with keeping the waterways system maintained and they cannot be trusted with our wellbeing.

We believe this to be the largest orchestrated attack on our way of life in years and we are going to stand strong and oppose it vociferously. We want you to stand with us.

Join the NBTA to have your say. Tell us if you oppose CRT’s latest proposal and if so, what you are prepared to do to fight it.

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