Nothing really could be simpler. Its a case of 'Yes' or 'No'. Its a nice conceptually transparent survey. Now you would imagine that Tower Hamlets Council, being part of Greater London and an Olympic Borough, would adopt a similar model for their consultation...
Get real, this is Tower Hamlets we are talking about, so the survey will be loaded with as many justifications as possible to justify the decision to close every club and get away with it. The survey form is deeply flawed and may well be illegal....
Question 2 states....
".....In order to decide whether any part of Tower Hamlets is a suitable location for a sex establishment......"
In my mind this implies that a decision is yet to be made and will be made on the basis of the information received back from the various responses. However by Question 4, the council state that...
".....we propose that there should nil sex establishments in Tower Hamlets........"
So in other words between the second and fourth questions, the Council demonstrates that the decision has already been made. This was never a consultation, merely an exercise to give a gloss of respectability to a flawed moral judgement.
This by the way is the consultation that was completed mid October 2011 and to date, we still do not know the results. But we will soon, even if they never tell us the score, which quite frankly is the most likely outcome...
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