Yes, a few people have noted that.

Rausing also heavily donates to our new Environment and agricultural Minister Steve Reed. What will he have to say about single use plastic and will he now be moving these rewinding projects forward?

https://members.parliament.uk/member/4268/registeredinterests

Jac The day we stop being spiky, prickly or whatever will be the day those fuckers will feel free to roam. Until then they are fair game.

Ably helped by the Welsh ‘Government’s’ money-on-wheels service.

‘Spiky’! Moi!

The Wigley dame said “While Summit to Sea held a series of face-to-face meetings and consultations locally, we should have communicated more widely that the project was to be community led and owned. ….”

Utter bollocks.

This was originally planned as diktat by those who considered themselves superior to the communities they intended to disrupt. The wheels came off when they realised that local farmers and communities backed up by farmers’ unions and spiky characters like Jac and others on this site were going to tackle them head on.

They couldn’t handle that kind of heat, but be alert, very likely the bastards may come back in another guise especially if there’s Welsh government loot sloshing around for such deserving cases. They just can’t resist it because that is their covert goal, grabbing assets and shifting public funds into private wealth.

Non (mea culpa!) sequitur.

Fascinating, Brychan. This shows what concerted opposition can achieve. I shall have to do an update.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-50117566

Yet, according to the published accounts for year ended 31st March 2019 of Rewilding Britain (1159373) had £479,283 in donations from companies and their financial involvement in the Summit to Sea Project was as follows.

A. Endangered Landscapes Programme.

01/04/2018 £0
Income £127,404
Expenditure (£24,795)
31/03/2019 £102,609

B. Summit to Sea Project

01/04/2018 £24,578
Income £37,500
Expenditure (£62,078)
31/03/2019 £0

https://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends73/0001159373_AC_20190331_E_C.pdf
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Both funds relate to their project in mid Wales [A] is what they spend onsite under the brand Rewinding Britain. [B] is funds specifically handed over to the Summit To Sea project.

The numbers tell us that Rewilding Britain had already abandoned that specific support for Summit to Sea as far back as March of this year, and this year just decided to maintain it’s funding, probably on a missionary salary, to wait and see what developed. The more cynical would conclude that the £165k that passed through Rewilding Britain was just a failed ‘greenwash bribe’ to get some eco-botherers onside in a project that has other motives.

Good thinking – there is already enough electoral fraud in this country.