More coverage today of the excellent Cuffley referendum in the Welwyn & Hatfield Times, with further comments from Tesco. Faced with an overwhelming 'No' (2,428 votes to 486), the supermarket giant comes up with two angles, their spokesman claiming that,
"Ultimately it is the customers who will vote on the store when it opens" - which seems to put paid to any thought that the supermarket values local consultation and feedback, a point which we will bring up with Michael Kissman next week,
and,
The result of the referendum is a bit misleading as only 64 per cent of the ballot papers were returned."
Now, anyone with a basic knowledge of maths can work out that the total number of ballot papers was 4,553 and so a genuine 53% of local people were motivated to oppose the store and only 11% to support it - an amazing turnout considering that most local elections in the UK get perhaps 30% of people to vote. Using Tesco-logic most of the MPs in the UK and the Labour party itself do not hold mandates to govern!
We can only hope that the spokesman is not redeployed to man a till in a Tesco store - he'd probably argue a '10% off' sticker isn't worth taking off the price...
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