This morning I got some information through the post from the Hull City Council about how the Council Tax they collect is spent. One of their boasts, "Over 1 million people visit Hull Libraries each year". What they forgot to add was, "We intend to cut this figure drastically". They have already said that they are going to close one library, and, if they get away with that, no doubt they'll get a taste for the procedure.
Council taxpayers in the library's area say that there should have been a twelve week consultation period before the decision was made to close. There was one, according to to the council, but it seems that they forgot to tell anybody about it.