Don’t put the blame on to me

Aug 27 2009 by Dan Owen, North Wales Weekly News

I GET the feeling that I am being attacked by a hoard of angry hornets.

I also get the distinct feeling that these letters represent an orchestrated attempt to discredit me.

The old saw being that if you don’t like the message blame the messenger. My shoulders are broad!

David Crawford puts forward some interesting observations and suggestions. The big lifeboat has been launched off the West Shore quite a few times in the past fifteen years, at least one of them on service at which I was present.

Regarding Mr Sutton’s letter, I have never even suggested that the taxpayer would have to foot the bill. I only commented that the cost of the project had inflated in the past ten years.

Mr Wright’s letter. There are already the steel barriers at two of the entrances to the prom by the slipway. They are not costly or expensive. Talking of reinforcing the promenade. If a boat house were to be built near the pier then the promenade from there to the slipway would have to be reinforced and who would pay for that? At the public inquiry in 1999 the RLNI stated that the lifeboat rig weighed 27tons. Now it appears that with a new bigger tractor this brings the all up weight to 44 tons. That along with the proposed new larger boat and the new super launch trailer will increase again.

In response to Mr Gambrill I am not an armchair expert. I have been a shore crew member of the Llandudno lifeboat and as such have had more experience and knowledge of the local conditions here at Llandudno than probably all of the 500 or so persons who run the service from the RLNI headquarters at Poole in Dorset.

John Lawson-Reay,

Llandudno