bkm...you can argue all day long about where the blame may lie, bottom line is that basic project management principles were not followed by who ever was responsible for project management, and that certainly was not the miners.
Would you build a house with your own money without being certain that you had AGREED, SIGNED AND SEALED pre build, that you had access to your front door ?. A yes or No will suffice.
Yes the miners may have played awkward, of that I don't know, but I do know the project management side has been appalling, I suspect the external consultants are now busilly referring to the clevely worded disclaimers in the contracts they had with whoever instructed them, that the council will spurt out the usual ''it wasnt our fault'' line ( aka Asda, Transport Interchange, new hotel on the harbour, I could go on) and finally once again Copeland is seen through the eyes of outsiders as a joke.
Maybe also the Whitehaven News will stop raising false hopes, be in new jobs, new hotels, new multi million pounds this, new that, new the other, with its eye catching headlines full of Mr Irvings small print maybe's, could be's and, possibilies etc, cos in reality few of them rarely come to fruition, still its sells papers. Whether its a new bus station, 2 new players from PNG,10,000 new jobs, a cruise terminal, a cable car ride to Kells, a 5 * holiday village in Lowca with mega screen cinema blah blahwe have had it all.....
I could go on.....
