[GreenKeys] British Prime Minister's Address

[Craig Sawyers]

Well, Bletchley is not sold off.  Since 1992, when it was in a dire state
indeed, it has been run by a board of unpaid Trustees as a charity.  They
appoint a Chief Executive as a payroll appointment, paid from the income
from ticket sales and so forth.  Unfortunately they in this case got the
appointment totally wrong.

 

TNMOC is also run as a charity, with an unpaid board of Trustees, and some
management positions paid for from ticket receipts.   But the location of
TNMOC is on the Bletchley Park site, and is charged rent.

 

This used to work just fine – the arrangement was that a percentage of the
ticket price went to TNMOC, and then rent was paid back.  Any surplus went
to developing TNMOC.

 

The problem is that the BT CEO is a real piece of work, has discontinued the
split ticket (so you have to pay extra to see TNMOC), has removed them from
the BP tours on pain of dismissal, has taken the Lorenz SZ42 and locked it
away and refuses point blank to let TNMOC even borrow it for special events,
and erected gates which can be closed to physically exclude them from the
main site.

 

But it is not sold off.  The only link with the Government is that BP won a
National Lottery grant of about £5m to restore the code breaking huts, which
were on the point of falling down.  They actually won that before Standen
took over as CEO, so the winning of the grant was nothing at all to do with
him.

 

So if you want to protest against Standen’s excesses, I’d focus on the
Heritage Lottery Fund who are bankrolling him
http://www.hlf.org.uk/Pages/Home.aspx 

 

Craig

 

 

From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Mark Richards
Sent: 30 January 2014 14:30
To: GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] British Prime Minister's Address

 

The current UK government is following in the footsteps of Margaret
Thatcher.. selling off public assets to private corporations and essentially
destroying public services.  The most recent was the privatization of the
postal service.  

I suspect Bletchley was just one of many precious assets sold off.

Coincidentally, if not an irony, the Queen "pardoned" Alan Turing for morals
offenses:
www.cnn.com/2013/12/24/world/europe/alan-turing-royal-pardon/index.html  She
took the lead for a Parliament that is indeed castrated, as in above the
neck.

Complaining to Cameron and the Torries will be like peeing in the wind, I'm
sorry to say.  They, and the other two major parties, are in agreement on
what they call "austerity" measures which includes victims like Bletchley.
There's little that UK citizens can do.. let alone us yanks.

/K1MGY


On 01/29/2014 18:24, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:

Well said  George... 

 

I really get  tired of  seeing infighting  in historical groups   and people
going off and forming 'covens' and   new fearless leaders  arriving on the
scene  tossing  everything astray...

 

 I   never  tolerated it as a young person and as  I  grow  older  my
tolerance  for it  continues  to diminish exponentially.  

 

So many times I have  seem a new  leader  some  in  and  totally dismantle a
working situation which seems to  be  the  case  in  this instance. I am
sure  he  has  his own little select  group  of  folk that he  wises to
empower.

 

Blagh!  foolish  man!

 

let us all hope  things  straighten out 

 

 

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