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Lone Voices – The role of consultation in identifying voices and views not otherwise heard

A common critique of public consultation is that it tends to tell you little more than you knew already. In...

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Half-baked proposals – It is the job of public consultations to help detect when proposals are inadequate

Now that everyone watches the Great British Bake-off, there is probably less need to explain the English idiom ’half-baked’ to...

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Beyond the Manifesto

Does the language of political commitments suggest the likelihood of public consultations? One clear advantage to having a majority Government...

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Posted 11 years ago5 minute read

None of the above – Do unhappy consultees ever feel like disenchanted voters at an Election?

If we lived in Spain…or India…or Poland, we could vote for ‘None of the Above’ or NOTA. It is also...

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The waiting game … – Purdah politics means that many public consultations are postponed until after the General Election

With public consultations, the Lady Macbeth principle generally applies. “If … when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well, if were done...

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The ‘right to be heard’ – We need a new focus on giving consultees confidence that their arguments will reach decision-maker … and be “conscientiously considered”

The case for consultation is largely made and won. True, there are progressive voices claiming that it does not go...

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