FIRE CHIEF LETS THE
CAT OUT OF THE BAG
CONSULTATION
RESPONSES WILL BE IGNORED
Not only has this consultation been inadequate and
misleading, it now appears that responding to it may be a waste of time.
In a recent radio
interview, Deputy Chief Fire Officer Lee Neale said, “There is a view that
if we aren’t getting hundreds of thousands of responses there must be a degree
of contentment or agreement with the proposals we are putting forward.”
No local
consultation will ever get hundreds of thousands of responses, even national
ones rarely approach such numbers. It appears that they have decided to ignore
any objections from the public.
It is quite
outrageous to assume that people who have not responded, all agree with the
proposals.
Many will not be
aware of the consultation, others will have been lulled in to a false sense of
security by the misleading consultation document, and many will believe that
their views will be ignored. From what Mr Neale said, those people would appear
to be right.
The consultation does not meet the standards expected of a
public consultation and should therefore be set aside.
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