^^^ Now that is weird. Just a couple of minutes ago, someone called 'Spiffing' posted a comment that said words to the effect of, “Well said Birdie, I agree.”
This person's post has just been removed.
I can only assume that this post will suffer the same fate. If it does not, I would be very interested to hear from the AB editor(s) the reasons for the removal.
Birdie, sadly, you are correct, the leaders will never get rid of their pet projects and as such, sadly they will get rid of the useful. Whenever I argue this point I always mean that the non jobs should be got rid of but I know what you mean. "We need to save some dosh so let's get shot of some bin men!"