You know better than that. Although there was a group heavily lobbying for it (along with the other 50% of the county population praying for a government job). No way Jose after the local pubbies got on it.
Fight the b*st*rds tooth and nail. But Tim Leslie might get his wish.
I'm sorely tempted to go down to that first meeting and just be deliberately disruptive till they throw my differential out of the place... really! I'm inclined to want to protest, rather than just sit around waiting for them to waste all those precious resources on a bunch of nothing!!!