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Consultation as pantomime – It’s the season to reflect on the similarities between consultation and a good old-fashioned Pantomime!
Oh No it isn’t!
Well, just for once, let’s admit that many public consultations have about them the sense of a mild farce – if not a classic English pantomime.
Like the annual winter theatricals, we have plenty of advance notice for the 12-week season during which the pantomime plays. True, Government Principles now allow anything from 2 -12 weeks and insist that the pantomime run has to be ‘proportionate’ (unless covered by the Compact – but we assume this refers to the hand-mirror used in The Sleeping Beauty).
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