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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
That's pretty much what she did, IMO at least. It looks like we are going to have to agree to disagree on this one.
We don't have public discussion on road closures, because we don't want the public to decide which closures (due to festivals) are acceptable and which ones are not. Certainly you can see that that wouldn't be a wise policy.
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There's the big problem.
"Pretty much what she did, in my opinion" after the fact, is a far cry from Druh coming out and saying "We want to have a festival, that's why we're closing the roads". The point is that IF the festival was the reason for the closure and not vice versa, then why didn't she explictly say it in the first place.
It's not a matter of letting the public decide if the road should close, that's still up to council, it's a matter of setting the record straight, so she could avoid all of the negative press and criticism. But for the ammount of flak she was taking, over what was preceived at the time (and still is) as a closure for the sake of a clousre, why didn't it occure to her to expliclty mention a festival?
You can point to qotes now that you Think hint towards a festival, but why can't anyone find actual mention of it?
I'm no fan of Druh, and this is another reason why.
It was either stupid of her to try to close a road for no reason, or it was a monumental failure on her part to communicate why she wanted to do something that was being highly criticised, or to even promote what you claim she wanted to be some sort of big event for her riding.
FAIL all around.