27th June 2013, 02:41 PM
kevin wooldridge Wrote:....it seems a little strange to even contemplate setting up a charity whose aim, purpose, organisation and status exactly mirrors that of the National Trust. I suspect that this will dawn on someone even before the ink has dried on the slightly dodgy £80m cheque.... my suspicion is that someone may already have gone down that route, but the NT (off the record) probably estimated that an endowment of £800 million might be closer to the true cost of 'devolving' this asset.....and why not? seems to me that substantial savings could be made by splicing into the nt which afterall is more public friendly and better supported!
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers