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 Tuesday March 18, 2008 22:16 by SWRDAwatch
 This time the Evening Post weighs in SWRDA or the South West Regional Development Agency, is the quango sitting over our region like a SW-wide octopus with the tentacles in (and round) lots and lots of places. It has been under attack in cyberspace for some time now here and by bloggers such as the Bristol Blogger. Well now the other bits of local media have finally caught up and weighed in to examine them - and their £2 million spending on foreign offices. If you have not read it, the Post are saying, " The South West Regional Development Agency has spent almost £2 million opening offices as far away as Australia and China. The Evening Post has learned that the agency (RDA), which scrapped plans for an arena in Bristol claiming it would cost too much to develop, has offices or representatives in five international cities." |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4for god's sake grow up - this is not a story. if the rda hadnt spent this money - u;d be asking what they do to promote bristol. and their offices in these countries are no secret - it's all on their website. the arena collapsed because of massive funding shortfalls from the private and public sector - this is small beer. in short, a perfect example of how not to make a news story from the FOIA
I respectfully disagree - where the RDA chooses to spend our tax money and if that money has been effectively spent is important.
'Boredofnews' - i bet you wish we were!
Surely the SWRDA are big enough to employ a more sophisticated 'beards' than you! "Move along, nothing to see here?" You'll have to do better than that!
excellent comments, very mature. i dont work for SWDRA, but never mind. i agree that where the money is spent is important - long live the FOIA. but it has to be put in context. this story is inferring that because the SWDRA spent £2m on offices abroad, the arena project has collapsed. this is nonsense, pure and simple. sure, put in the FOIAs and hold em to account - but if you do it in such a puerile way, you devalue what you are doing. nevermind eh, i'm sure there'll be another conspiracy along soon