Politics, like comedy, is about timing...but less funny

I mentioned the timing of the Extraordinary Council Meeting-cum-Public Meeting in the previous post: the timing is interesting.

Here's why:

»  It's very soon. This puts the local community on the back foot, as we don't have hordes of paid minions to do our bidding like the RDA.

»  It's either very inconvenient or very convenient with regard to the local newspaper, the Central Somerset Gazette. They have deadlines as follows (thanks to the CSG for this info):

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[deadline for] What's On is 9am on Tuesday and the deadline for news is 12 noon on Tuesday.

News that comes in on Tuesday is likely to be held over until the following week if it is not date sensitive, as by this time the reporter will have the whole paper planned. It is therefore often much better to get it in by Monday, or earlier if possible.

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So...a meeting on a wednesday won't make the local rag until the week after, at which point it's no doubt lost some of it's news value.

I think it's likely that the RDA will get a sound spanking at this meeting, which IMAO they thoroughly deserve. Keeping it out of the local news will allow their backsides to cool off and save a few red faces too, I bet.

And this begs the question: who scheduled the meeting? Answers on a postcard please :)

ps: The CSG carried the following headline on an article yesterday: Mission accomplished for Morland site protesters?

It's not accomplished: far from it, it's only just started...