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Good charities and voluntary organisations that do a decent job should get sufficient core funding and be told to get on with it.We should also fund the continuation of existing projects.
Another danger is that we could skew our activities to try to raise activity levels in areas that count, which might not be an appropriate approach for the domestic economy.
We are reaching the end of the process and we should focus on the management of sites, getting money in, promoting the sites better than we can do currently and getting real interest behind what is going on.
Those changes mean getting into spatial management, which the fishing industry wanted, and getting into decoupling the stocks of cod and haddock from prawns, which he has achieved.
Those tensions exist and one has to be clear about them if one is not to get into an awful guddle. We need to separate our purposes in relation to the budget.
Likewise, when my mother had a heart attack and was dying up north, I could not get a locum, but six practices managed to cobble together cover to allow me to get away.Perhaps members can see where I am coming from.