Orwellian

So what you posted was just nonsense then.

So Ovo offered more for what was not for sale. That you know the unsuccessful bidder is immaterial. Auction is regularly used by charities to ensure they receive proper value

Can you provide any evidence to support that comment?

CRT's Legal & Governance Director has today replied to Allan's FoI request. See attached. FOI Allan Richards Boat Licence Fee Review Survey Letter.pdf

The government always gets in Arthur.

The fundamental issue is that those who were running BWB prior to 2012 campaigned successfully to become a charity independent of Government which they considered to be an improvement. The 15 year grant was consideted to be much better than the annual deficit grant it replaced. The trustees at the time resolved that they could take on the waterways on that basis. They made a virtue of being free from government 'constraints'. Now they complain about it and are campaigning for it to continue. They made a huge error.

The DEFRA objective of eventually removing public (ie government) financial support was contained in a formal signed Memorandum of Understanding completed alongside the statutory transfer and grant agreements. See Annex 8 in attached. Canal-rivers-MOU.pdf

What do you mean by "quitting the Weaver"? All the article says is they are trying to sell a large piece of property they used to occupy.

https://www.northwichguardian.co.uk/news/23931791.canal-river-trust-puts-navigation-yard-sale/

Now your being silly.

If you had read the whole of sec 43 a little further you would have come across the following - "(8) The services and facilities referred to in subsection (3) of this section include, in the case of the British Waterways Board [F17and Canal & River Trust], the use of any inland waterway owned or managed by them by any ship or boat." Is that clear enough for you?

I think you are overlooking sec 43 of the Transport Act 1962 which gave BWB (and by statutory transfer) CRT the right to make charges and apply terms & conditions to the use of vessels on their waterways. This provision was not repealed by the 1995 Act which therefore only added aditional provisions to the issuing a boat licences rather than replacing those made in previous acts of parliament.

44436-body-worn-cameras-on-towpaths.pdf

No I'm bored now and you don't deserve any help for being offensive.

You originally said the licence had been suspended not revoked. Make your mind up.