There is a dispute about opposition to a proposed airport to be built in the Thames estuary. A local council has earmarked £35,000 as a “fighting fund”. Most people in Medway, possibly, are opposed to the building of the airport, but some people have called for a referendum to test the extent of the opposition, and to see whether £35,000 would be spent according to local will. The Deputy Leader of Medway Council (Conservative led), Alan Jarrett, doesn’t see the point of a referendum. First of all, it would cost too much (he says): anything up to £250,000. Second of all, and most impressively:
The assumption which we are correctly making is the vast majority of people are in favour of what we are doing.1
Read that again… ”The assumption which we are correctly making is the vast majority of people are in favour of what we are doing.”
I am really, really impressed, that the satire of Bertolt Brecht is alive and well and living in Tory-run Medway Council