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fazer71 Wrote:

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> If the results are used and the percentages quoted

> then they need to be put in context.

>

> Which ever way you look at it vote or

> consultation.

>

> The numbers show the views of just 21% of those

> who were asked.

>

> One can't honestly expect to rely/use/quote or

> believe that such a pathetic % of those questioned

> should provide a basis for making any decision. So

> they should be put in the bin.


However that is how our political system works, doesn't matter how many vote (it is their choice to vote or not to vote) it is the percentage of those that actually bothered to vote that counts..

gsirett Wrote:

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> " Any claim about local business supporting the

> anti-CPZ campaign is both true AND absolutely

> worthless/meaningless. I remember about 10 years

> ago most of the same traders were against bus

> lanes. Claims of Lordship Lane apocalypse were

> rife. The bus lanes happened. The businesses

> prospered."

>

> Actually the local traders "whinged" about a

> permanant LL bus/red route. Nobody listened to

> them, what harm could it possibly do? A while

> later, with evidence of dramatically falling

> sales, a local councillor helped them get the

> decision reversed ( a local lib

>

> EVerybody thought they were just a load of

> whinging businesses, But their fears were proved

> right.

> Many of th businesses that we all love run on very

> tight margins. Nobody has problems parking at

> sainsburys or bluewater


And the Local Lab Councillors!

Three people telling other forumites to move and leave this thread alone. Surely the best way to let the thread die is not to contribute at all. If you feel it's no longer relevant to this section then ask the Administrator to move it but leave others that still want to discuss aspects of this highly charged issue alone.

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