Unitary Status Disgrace
Initial Submission has not been Read
Boundary Committee Informed
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From: Jim Harle
To: reviews@boundarycommittee.org.uk
Cc: Summerway Committee
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 2:54 PM
Subject: Summerway Submission Email 1
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Dear Review Manager,
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Unitary Status Options Within Devon
Unexamined Earlier Submission
(Originally submitted as ‘Unitary Status Options Within Devon -
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I made a submission to the Boundary Committee regarding unitary status options within Devon on 26th September 2008. It was kindly acknowledged on 15th October 2008 as safely received.
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It appears that the Boundary Committee is not rigorously examining submissions. As this would place it in the same league as Exeter City Council, which in our experience makes both a meaningless show of consultation and a mockery of democracy, I hope I am proved mistaken.
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If my submission has been merely tossed on a pile without thorough examination, how can the Boundary Committee make informed recommendations to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government? If, on the other hand, my submission has been discarded on a technicality, I ought to have been informed of its invalidity. How else is it possible for the public to have confidence in government and democracy?
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Unless the Boundary Committee is accessing the web by stealth, which would be perceived as Big Brother desecrating the concept of open government, the web links in my submission have not been accessed. Had they been, they would have appeared in my website statistics. All the web links point to my own material, and form an integral part of my submission, citing evidence in support of my assertions. These have to be examined to determine the weight and validity of my arguments.
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I have recently been informed that the Google ‘tinyurl’ hyperlink displayed in one of my YouTube videos is no longer working. On Google’s stated assurance that such links never expire, I used them in my submission. Retesting the links, which originally worked perfectly, shows that none are now functional, and Google appears to have withdrawn the ‘tinyurl.co.uk’ domain while retaining its ‘tinyurl.com’ counterpart. I have written to Google both in America and London to ascertain the facts and date of its abandoned promise.
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I would expect to be informed if your team attempted to access the web and found the links invalid after Google let us down. As this hasn’t happened, I presume my submission has yet to be examined.
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Fortunately, my “earlier representation will continue to be taken into account by the Committee”, so I will resubmit it unchanged, with only the links adjusted – now independent of Google! To distinguish the current from the previous and also associate the three emails I plan to send, the Subject will be given as “Summerway Submission Email x”, where x = 1 to 3.
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This is “Summerway Submission Email 1”, the second will be the original submission with live links, and the third will contain additional information. Only this first email will be shared with others before the Boundary Committee announces its recommendations to the Secretary of State.
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I hope the Committee does not fall into the same error as Exeter City Council and dismiss my efforts as unique and unrepresentative. The Council refused to deal with me when I was saying exactly the same as the Summerway Junior LTC. The Summerway Campaign which I continue to lead has hundreds of Summerway Watchers sympathetic to my views who will be very interested in subsequent events. I note that altogether I will have spent four working weeks preparing my submissions, so please ensure they are given more than just a cursory examination.
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I look forward to receiving an emailed acknowledgement of my three emails, and the evidence of rigour in my website statistics.
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Yours sincerely,
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Jim Harle.