Plenty of water now alright and more to come it seems.

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The below was sent to me by a friend.  Its a facebook post by one Lawrence Breakspear. If accurarate , and I have no reason to believe it's not then its a damning indictment on the Angling Trust and all it purports to stand for;

Well, well, top marks to the Angling Times for their exposure today of  the Angling Trusts new Chairman Sir Charles Walker MP.

Despite the Angling Trusts (Via Martin Salter) weasel like words to wriggle out of this mess and for me gives conformation that the Angling Trust is not fit for purpose, its just a cash rich  jobs for the boys politically motivated organisation.

The basis of this debacle is that in 2021 Charles Walker and other MP's voted to allow privately owned  Water Companies to be basically derestricted via the new Environmental Bill  and to be able to release untreated raw sewage into our rivers, when this went to the House of Lords for ratification it was rejected and sent back to the commons  for amendments, basically their lordships wanted the water companies to be more accountable and limited to how much they can poison our rivers, but Sir Charles Walker and his cohorts voted against these amendments, this happened whilst he was an Angling Trust ambassador and a few months later he would become the new Angling Trust chairman.

For Martin Salter to describe this as political and its all ok, where a poor old MP and Angling Trust ambassador  being the victim of the party line whip voting system, is utter rubbish, Charles Walker could have abstained on numerous occasions.

So we have a chairman of the Angling Trust happy to poison our rivers so that Water Companies, their shareholders and their CEO's just to get richer and richer.

Its disgraceful that the Angling Trust defends this as just one of those things, a sort of occupational hazard.

It would be good if all those Angling Trust ambassadors and directors stood up to be counted and resigned from the Angling Trust in protest.

Can you believe that by default the Angling Trust supports the pollution of our rivers on what its chairman supported.

But, just like Fergal Sharkey, Des Taylor, Ray Walton and others if you expose this failure of the EA, The Angling Trust and the various River Trusts they will cancel you out, you are toast.

Its  a dreadful state of affairs, but am I surprised, no I am not, the Angling Trust is a quango for a political agenda, we can only speculate on, changes are needed now.

 

Well done Angling Times...