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Originally Posted by Neil
These bids always need community consultation and involvement and this usually has to be demonstrated in the bid. The downside of over publicising these bids is that the public start to think you are useless when they don't succeed.
What many people don't realise is that a successful bid is by no means a certainty. As an example, one of the groups I am involved with has just been offered some extra money on the back of a recent project. Only 40 out of 1000 were offered this so 960 were unlucky.
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Oh I quite agree.
I think it's daft for it to be announced to the press, at this stage, when nothing's happened, other than a bid for funding has been made.
The press then run with this 'good news' (non-) story.
I don't blame the press.
They work with information that's been fed to them.
It's as pie in the sky as someone announcing they're buying a yacht, because they've just purchased a lottery ticket.
If you use the press to garner political advantage for yourself, don't be too suprised if they sometimes use you.
Even an 'off-the-cuff', unguarded remark, can prove profitable.
As with the front page story about Ken, and his DNA doggy plop-plops.