Posts tagged with ‘Consultation’

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Post Office consultation a “sham”

November 23, 2009

One of our bugbears is the consultation exercise. They are a bastardisation of democracy, giving the impression of listening to the public while usually ignoring anything inconvenient that is said. We quote several examples in the book, one of which is the consultation arranged by Royal Mail in 2008-9 when they rushed through a programme [...]

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Consult and ignore: What is the point of consultation exercises?

November 10, 2009

The plan for phone companies and internet providers to be forced to keep details of all our phone calls, website visits, emails and text messages for a year, during which time they will be open to scrutiny by any one of 653 government and public organisations, is pretty scary. Given the way in which anti-terrorism [...]

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Listed buildings. Listed for demolition

November 2, 2009

The government appears to have lost patience with the common people for having the bare-faced temerity to object to their glorious plans to build power stations, windfarms, roads, pylons and the like. So it has changed the planning rules as they have operated for 60 years or so.
The idea that it is going to become [...]