Tigerfish - good to hear from you old boy! Hope this finds you well. Had a conversation with a very very prominent proponent of NPAS this afternoon during the SAR conference and he confirms what I felt deep down inside - that without NPAS or its equivalent, the stand alone units would slowly but inevitably be picked off one by one by the councils thru cutbacks or the PCC thru political meddling and ignorance. It was the best solution where the wagons formed a circle to avoid tail enders being ambushed.
Now this is an interesting dilemma for W yorks - do they swing or fly under a change of PCC? Could a lowly PCC up in the dales actually interfere with a national model?
Keep in touch on here and speak your mind.