Vincent Mayor, John Carey, says that the only way to fight the Barnett/Simpson local government proposals is to stay at the table to fight - but he also says "Mergers are going to happen", so what is he going to fight about, except how to be killed with the least amount of pain.
The fact is that if you stay at the table you give all the power to those who forced you to the table in the first place.
Time and time again, most infamously in 1938/39, it has been shown that appeasement doesn't work. Bullies rely on acquiescence - and the only way to counter them is to take your fate into your own hands.
Barnett and Simpson have given no indication that they will ever listen to reason. Time and time again they have stated that, as far as they are concerned, their so-called reform is a fait accompli - and in the process seem to pre-empt the supposedly independent Local Government Advisory Board.
Time to leave the table, John, to have the courage of our convictions and tell Col Pot and Homer to go to whatever hell discredited dictators end up in.
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