In amongst the excellent points made by Alan Pitt in his letter ‘Anniversary of failure’, (GDN, August 20), one leaps off the page more readily than others: whether or not the settlement committee’s final decision (with respect to the stalled Marina West project) was “acceptable to an influential body”.
Who or what might this influential body be, we ask?
If true, it implies somewhere the power of veto lies waiting to be applied – perhaps arbitrarily .