CarlP wrote:
Absolutely typical of the way SCP's seem to do business, which is a shame, because not so long back I genuinely thought CSCP were above all of that.
Me too. Just shows how wrong you can be!
Then again I also harboured a quiet belief that they were going to ensure they didn't turn a profit here in Cumbria, and I was way wrong about that too.
So it looks like all the cynics like Cooperman were right all along: it IS all about the money, and initiatives like the forum WERE simply to pay lip service to public opinion. In a way I actually feel embarrassed to have given them the benefit of the doubt for so long.
Anyway, I suppose the positive thing is that by removing that particular avenue of interrogation they will in effect funnel any criticism into other channels such as the local papers, which will probably be to our benefit in the long term. When you stop and look at it now, the existence of the forum did largely suppress all the negative debate that was going on in local papers like the Westmorland Gazette, so hopefully we can look forward to a resurgence of the debate within their pages.