Preston Community Library has illustrated a major fallacy with their previous campaign as a result of the planning process over what to do with that building next. As with most such campaigns, it claimed to represent "the community" as having a single view.
In fact a community of any size will have various views on any subject. We have seen during the Brexit process that seeking to drown out opposing views on the pretence that there is only one "will of the people" is a thoroughly divisive tactic. Politics exists precisely to create compromises in such disputes.
Incidentally, I see no reason to rescind the comments I made on Brent Council's position on this building or its status as a community asset.
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