We asked the council to change its plan. Now people call the change a U-turn
Politics"At last, they listened," I said. My neighbour replied, "They have no backbone."
The council had proposed moving our weekly market from the old hall to the station square. After traders raised problems with the new site, it proposed keeping the market at the hall while looking at another option. I had asked for that pause. My neighbour had too.
Some stallholders had already arranged transport around the move. The reversal has a cost, and I don't want "they listened" to excuse how confidently the first plan was announced. But if every change is proof of weakness, I don't know what response to objections would satisfy us.
What should we ask about the revised decision to judge whether this is a responsible correction, rather than decide from the fact of a reversal alone?