Consultees.

I've never liked this word, nor any of the others concocted by adding -ees on the end. SRWT and its allies don't like anything at all to do with consultation. It strikes terror into their hearts. So much so that they spend vast resources in defending themselves against its feared harvest of criticism.

They have now proposed a new consultation method. Frankly they might just as well give up altogether. They've made the process so unsatisfactory not to say depressing for anyone who has tried to engage with them that it would be more honest not to do it at all. They dismiss serious points and go their own way.

Here's one permanent user who knows more about Blacka than everyone at SWT. They don't even know she exists. Not on the list of consultees or stakeholders. She just happens to live here without being part of the economy. Anyway she's not a dendrophobe, an essential qualification for local conservation consultees.