The points raised by sunnymountaintops, John Booth and others are important, and will inform discussion, opinions and ultimately any votes. To those who say that they don't attend area meetings, well, now is your chance. Although I've been actively involved in two areas in the past, I haven't been to an area meeting for many years. I generally trust those that do attend and represent us to act responsibly, but on this occasion I don't think that this has worked. So, having criticised the BMC for not running this through the areas, and the BMC having responded by saying "okay, we'll have a discussion at the areas", it is down to all of us who have called for a discussion to go and make that a meaningful one. I'll have to travel well over an hour to any of my three nearest meetings, but I'll get off my backside and do it because it is essential. Social media is important and has served a vital purpose here of turning an unpopular decision back to a proposal, and now we need to use the BMC's long standing and extremely effective representative structure to determine the way forward. Our reps on the National Council are only as effective as we make them, so let's go and make sure that they represent us. As someone once said "history is made by those who turn up".